Nehemia Levtzion (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

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Nehemia Levtzion	
Professor of Islamic and African History	
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mail address:
The Council for Higher Education
P.O.Box 4037
Jerusalem 91040
Israel

phone:    +972-2-6523591 (home)
          +972-2-5679913 (office)
fax:      +972-2-5679943
e-mail:   nehemia@che.org.il


Selected publications:

Books:

Muslims and Chiefs in West Africa: a Study of Islam in the Middle Volta
Basin in the Pre-Colonial Period. Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1968, 256
pp. 

Ancient Ghana and Mali. London: Methuen, 1973, 283 pp. (hardcover and
paperback); second edition, New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980 (hardcover and
paperback) 

An Introduction to African History. Tel Aviv: The Open University of
Israel, 1980, 147 pp. (Hebrew) 

(with J.F.P. Hopkins) Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African
History. Cambridge: the Cambridge University Press, 1981 (Fontes Historiae
Africanae: Series Arabica IV), 493 pp. 

(with I.G. Wilks and B.M. Haight) Chronicles from Gonja: a Tradition of
West African Muslim Historiography. Cambridge: the Cambridge University
Press, 1986 (Fontes Historiae Africanae: Series Arabica IX), 258 pp. 

(editor with H.J. Fisher) Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa. Boulder,
Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987, 176 pp.; first published as a
special number of Asian and African Studies, vol 20, no.1 (1986). 

Islam in West Africa: Religion, Society and Politics to 1800. London:
Variorum 1994, 300

Bilad al-Sudan Viewed from the North: Arabic Sources on West Africa, a
revised edition of the Corpus (no. 6 above), Arabic texts translated by
the late J.F.P. Hopkins. Princeton: Markus Wiener 1999

(editor with Randall Pouwels), History of Islam in Africa. Ohio University
Press, 1999


Articles and Chapters:

"Islam and state formation in West Africa", in The Early State in Africa,
edited by S.N. Eisenstadt, M. Abitbol and N. Chazan. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1987, pp. 98-108

"The Eighteenth Century: background to the Islamic revolutions in West
Africa", in Eighteenth Century Renewal and Reform in Islam, edited by
Levtzion and Voll, 1987, pp. 21-38 (reprinted in Islam in West Africa) 

"Rural and urban Islam in West Africa", in Rural and Urban Islam in West
Africa, edited by N. Levtzion and H.J. Fisher, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 1987, pp.1-20 (reprinted in Islam in West Africa) 

"Merchants vs. Scholars and clerics: differential and complementary
roles", in Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa, edited by N. Levtzion and
H.J. Fisher, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987, pp. 21-37
(reprinted in Islam in West Africa) 

"Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa", The Encyclopaedia of Religion, edited by
Mircea Eliade et al. New York: Macmillan, 1987, vol. 7, pp. 344-357

"Muslim `ulama' and human rights in pre-colonial West Africa", in Human
Rights in Developing Countries: Problems and Prospects, edited by C.E.
Welch. Buffalo, N.Y., 1989. pp. 122-138

"Eighteenth century renewal and reform in Islam: the role of sufi turuq in
West Africa", in Levtzion, Islam in West Africa, 1994

"Berber nomads and Sudanese states: the historiography of the desert-Sahel
interface", in Levtzion, Islam in West Africa, 1994

(with G. Weigert), "Religious Reform in Eighteenth century Morocco", North
African, Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of Pessah Shinar, published
as Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 19 (1995), 173-197

 "Kingdoms of the Western Sudan", Encyclopedia of Africa, edited by John
Middleton. Simon & Schuster (forthcoming) 

 "Muslim Travellers and Trade", Medieval Trade, Travel and Exploration: an
Encyclopaedia, edited by John B. Friedman. Garland Publishing, Inc.
(forthcoming)