Yaacov Lev
Biographic Data
| ID | 615525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaacov Lev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaacov |
| FAMILY NAME | Lev |
| SIGNATURE | LEV Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6723-0538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050–1128
Michael S. Fulton, Contest for Egypt. The Collapse of the Fatimid Caliphate, the Ebb of Crusader Influence, and the Rise of Saladin
The book engages with a transformative decade in the history of the Middle East: the years 1164-1174. That decade resembled in its broader ramifications another crucial decade in the history of the region: the years 1250-1260. Fulton offers a richly woven narrative, skillfully moving between Egypt, the Latin Outremer, Muslim Syria, and Byzantium, while also keeping an open eye on the Mediterranean world, especially Pisa and Norman Sicily. The att…
Islamización y aculturación en la época de ʻUmar II (717-720)
La vasta correspondencia de ʻUmar II con los gobernantes es examinada para la discusión de la islamización y la aculturación. Desde el punto de vista del califa, estos dos procesos tenían que ser regulados y el dilema era cómo formular una política que estuviera en línea con la ética islámica y, al mismo tiempo, controlar la islamización estableciendo un alto nivel de entrada para los conversos. La lucha contra la aculturación intentaba preservar…
The Fatimid Empire and its Population
The Fatimid Caliphs, the Copts, and the Coptic Church
This paper examines the complex relations between the Fatimid rulers and their Coptic subjects, focusing on state policies and the situation in the Delta. In spite of al-Ḥākim’s persecutions of non-Muslims, Fatimid policies toward Christians and Jews can be described as non-prejudicial and surprisingly tolerant. Whether these were driven by practical considerations or Ismāʿīlī ideological underpinnings remains vague. In any case, state policies w…
Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt (10th–12th Centuries ce)
David Ayalon (1914–1998) and the History of Black Military Slavery in Medieval Islam
This paper deals with three inter-related topics: the origins of Black military slavery, the legacy of David Ayalon and Islamic military slavery in the broader context of world history. The first Black military system emerged in ninth-century Aghlabid Ifrīqiya, but its heyday and demise took place in eleventh- through twelfth-century Fatimid Egypt. Black military slavery was mostly outside the mainstream of David Ayalon’s work on Islamic military…
Nancy KHALEK. Damascus after the Muslim Conquest: Text and Image in Early Islam
This book is an important addition to growing literature dealing with early Muslim Syria and the Umayyad dynasty (660–750), which ruled the Muslim empire from Damascus. Early Islamic Damascus, in the words of Nancy Khalek, “was a viscerally Christian place” (p. 3). Taking a broader view, she points out that “[t]he early Muslim community, always a minority in early medieval Syria, developed its initial imperial identity in a Byzantine milieu” (p. …
The Divergence of Judaism and IslamInterdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil: Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil
This book offers a panoply of diverse interdisciplinary perspectives on the final chapter of Jewish minority life within the Islamic orbit, on Islam and Judaism as religions, and on the contemporary relationship between Jews and Muslims in the Western world and between Israel and the Muslim nation-states. It offers a wide variety of eclectic methodological approaches that work synergistically to supply nuances to complex and often-misunderstood r…
Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions
This book deals with various manifestations of charity or giving in the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim medieval societies. Monotheistic charity and giving display many common features. These underlying similarities reflect a commonly shared view about God and his relations to mankind and what humans owe to God and expect from him. Nevertheless, the fact that the emphasis is placed on similarities does not mean that the uniqueness o…
The Ethics and Practice of Islamic Medieval Charity
Charity is deeply embedded in the religious thought and teachings of the three monotheistic religions. This article, while focusing on medieval Islam, is set in a wider framework with references to both Jewish and Christian parallels. Three main topics are examined: the religious meaning of charity, the social and political ramifications of almsgiving, and the impact of the institutional form of charity (the pious endowment system, waqf pl. awqaf…
War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries
Preface List of Abbreviations and Illustrations Contributors Introduction 1 1. Arms of the Umayyad Era: Military Technology in a Time of Change -- David Nicolle 9 2. Some Administrative, Military and Socio-Political Aspects of Early Muslim Egypt -- Khalil 'Athamina 101 3. Regime, Army and Society in Medieval Egypt, 9th-12th Centuries -- Yaacov Lev 115 4. Personal Adversities of Jews during the Period of the Fatimid Wars in Eleventh Century Palest…
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
Fatimid history is a chapter of both Mediterranean and Islamic history. In the period covered by the book (10th-12th centuries) profound changes took place in the Eastern Mediterranean affecting the history of the region. Divided into three parts this study deals with the political history of the Fatimid period, the structure of the Fatimid state and the interplay between state and society. The book is a contribution to the study of Islamic milit…
The Fatimids and Egypt 301-358/914-969
The suppression of crime, the supervision of markets, and Urban society in the Egyptian capital during the tenth and eleventh centuries
This article examines two institutions: the police (shurta) and supervision of the markets (hisba), in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century Fustat, the old Muslim capital of Egypt. Both their functioning and some aspects of the urban society of Fustat are discussed. In contrast to other studies of these institutions which utilized administrative texts, this paper is based on a contemporary chronicle which sheds fresh light on the topic under discussion
Army, Regime, And Society In Fatimid Egypt, 358–487/968–1094
Tensions between the regime and the army are a crucial component for the understanding of Fatimid history and, as will be shown, they had a mostly destabilizing impact on society and the economy. A host of factors shaped the relationship between the regime, the army, and society. Among these factors, the socio-military composition of the army was especially important. The composition of the army was partly an outcome of deliberate policies of the…
David Ayalon (1914–1998) and the History of Black Military Slavery in Medieval Islam
This paper deals with three inter-related topics: the origins of Black military slavery, the legacy of David Ayalon and Islamic military slavery in the broader context of world history. The first Black military system emerged in ninth-century Aghlabid Ifrīqiya, but its heyday and demise took place in eleventh- through twelfth-century Fatimid Egypt. Black military slavery was mostly outside the mainstream of David Ayalon’s work on Islamic military…
Army, Regime, And Society In Fatimid Egypt, 358–487/968–1094
Tensions between the regime and the army are a crucial component for the understanding of Fatimid history and, as will be shown, they had a mostly destabilizing impact on society and the economy. A host of factors shaped the relationship between the regime, the army, and society. Among these factors, the socio-military composition of the army was especially important. The composition of the army was partly an outcome of deliberate policies of the…
The Ethics and Practice of Islamic Medieval Charity
Charity is deeply embedded in the religious thought and teachings of the three monotheistic religions. This article, while focusing on medieval Islam, is set in a wider framework with references to both Jewish and Christian parallels. Three main topics are examined: the religious meaning of charity, the social and political ramifications of almsgiving, and the impact of the institutional form of charity (the pious endowment system, waqf pl. awqaf…
Army, Regime, And Society In Fatimid Egypt, 358–487/968–1094
Tensions between the regime and the army are a crucial component for the understanding of Fatimid history and, as will be shown, they had a mostly destabilizing impact on society and the economy. A host of factors shaped the relationship between the regime, the army, and society. Among these factors, the socio-military composition of the army was especially important. The composition of the army was partly an outcome of deliberate policies of the…
The Fatimids and Egypt 301-358/914-969
The suppression of crime, the supervision of markets, and Urban society in the Egyptian capital during the tenth and eleventh centuries
This article examines two institutions: the police (shurta) and supervision of the markets (hisba), in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century Fustat, the old Muslim capital of Egypt. Both their functioning and some aspects of the urban society of Fustat are discussed. In contrast to other studies of these institutions which utilized administrative texts, this paper is based on a contemporary chronicle which sheds fresh light on the topic under discussion
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
Fatimid history is a chapter of both Mediterranean and Islamic history. In the period covered by the book (10th-12th centuries) profound changes took place in the Eastern Mediterranean affecting the history of the region. Divided into three parts this study deals with the political history of the Fatimid period, the structure of the Fatimid state and the interplay between state and society. The book is a contribution to the study of Islamic milit…
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries
Preface List of Abbreviations and Illustrations Contributors Introduction 1 1. Arms of the Umayyad Era: Military Technology in a Time of Change -- David Nicolle 9 2. Some Administrative, Military and Socio-Political Aspects of Early Muslim Egypt -- Khalil 'Athamina 101 3. Regime, Army and Society in Medieval Egypt, 9th-12th Centuries -- Yaacov Lev 115 4. Personal Adversities of Jews during the Period of the Fatimid Wars in Eleventh Century Palest…
The Ethics and Practice of Islamic Medieval Charity
Charity is deeply embedded in the religious thought and teachings of the three monotheistic religions. This article, while focusing on medieval Islam, is set in a wider framework with references to both Jewish and Christian parallels. Three main topics are examined: the religious meaning of charity, the social and political ramifications of almsgiving, and the impact of the institutional form of charity (the pious endowment system, waqf pl. awqaf…
Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions
This book deals with various manifestations of charity or giving in the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim medieval societies. Monotheistic charity and giving display many common features. These underlying similarities reflect a commonly shared view about God and his relations to mankind and what humans owe to God and expect from him. Nevertheless, the fact that the emphasis is placed on similarities does not mean that the uniqueness o…
The Divergence of Judaism and IslamInterdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil: Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil
This book offers a panoply of diverse interdisciplinary perspectives on the final chapter of Jewish minority life within the Islamic orbit, on Islam and Judaism as religions, and on the contemporary relationship between Jews and Muslims in the Western world and between Israel and the Muslim nation-states. It offers a wide variety of eclectic methodological approaches that work synergistically to supply nuances to complex and often-misunderstood r…
David Ayalon (1914–1998) and the History of Black Military Slavery in Medieval Islam
This paper deals with three inter-related topics: the origins of Black military slavery, the legacy of David Ayalon and Islamic military slavery in the broader context of world history. The first Black military system emerged in ninth-century Aghlabid Ifrīqiya, but its heyday and demise took place in eleventh- through twelfth-century Fatimid Egypt. Black military slavery was mostly outside the mainstream of David Ayalon’s work on Islamic military…
Nancy KHALEK. Damascus after the Muslim Conquest: Text and Image in Early Islam
This book is an important addition to growing literature dealing with early Muslim Syria and the Umayyad dynasty (660–750), which ruled the Muslim empire from Damascus. Early Islamic Damascus, in the words of Nancy Khalek, “was a viscerally Christian place” (p. 3). Taking a broader view, she points out that “[t]he early Muslim community, always a minority in early medieval Syria, developed its initial imperial identity in a Byzantine milieu” (p. …
The Fatimid Empire and its Population
The Fatimid Caliphs, the Copts, and the Coptic Church
This paper examines the complex relations between the Fatimid rulers and their Coptic subjects, focusing on state policies and the situation in the Delta. In spite of al-Ḥākim’s persecutions of non-Muslims, Fatimid policies toward Christians and Jews can be described as non-prejudicial and surprisingly tolerant. Whether these were driven by practical considerations or Ismāʿīlī ideological underpinnings remains vague. In any case, state policies w…
Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt (10th–12th Centuries ce)
Islamización y aculturación en la época de ʻUmar II (717-720)
La vasta correspondencia de ʻUmar II con los gobernantes es examinada para la discusión de la islamización y la aculturación. Desde el punto de vista del califa, estos dos procesos tenían que ser regulados y el dilema era cómo formular una política que estuviera en línea con la ética islámica y, al mismo tiempo, controlar la islamización estableciendo un alto nivel de entrada para los conversos. La lucha contra la aculturación intentaba preservar…
Michael S. Fulton, Contest for Egypt. The Collapse of the Fatimid Caliphate, the Ebb of Crusader Influence, and the Rise of Saladin
The book engages with a transformative decade in the history of the Middle East: the years 1164-1174. That decade resembled in its broader ramifications another crucial decade in the history of the region: the years 1250-1260. Fulton offers a richly woven narrative, skillfully moving between Egypt, the Latin Outremer, Muslim Syria, and Byzantium, while also keeping an open eye on the Mediterranean world, especially Pisa and Norman Sicily. The att…
Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050–1128
History (16 works) · Ancient history (14 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Islam (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works)