Miri Shefer-Mossensohn

Prof. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn is a social and cultural historian of the pre-modern Islamic world. She graduated from Tel Aviv University (B.A., Magna cum Laude, 1994, and PhD, 2001). She held fellowship in the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge. She has been awarded for excellence in teaching on campus several times.
Areas of Expertise:
- Social and cultural everyday realities of the pre-modern Arabic and Turkish-speaking regions of the Middle East
- Medicine, health and wellbeing in the Ottoman world

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Arab-Islamic History: From Tribes to Empires (edX)

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Learn about the history of the Arab and Muslim world during its first millennium, including political, social and cultural aspects. You will study this course in two parts. The first presents the main political events that set the chronological framework for the course, namely 6th century to the arrival [...]

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