Reuven Amitai

Biography:

Reuven Amitai also Reuven Amitai-Preiss is an Israeli-American historian and writer specializing in pre-modern Islamic civilization especially Syria and Palestine during the time of the Mamluk Empire. In his 20s he moved to Israel and became history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As of 2012 he is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University.