Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
About Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at New York University. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017); and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History (Hawaii University Press, 2023).
Zvi Ben-Dor’s lectures (66)
Date
Title
6 January
Abbasid Caliphate
13 January
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
20 January
The Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate
27 January
The Mongol-Mamluk War and Its Aftermath
3 February
The African Caliphates: Mali and Timbuktu Rise to Primacy
10 February
The Islamization of Central Asia and the Rise of the Mughal Dynasty in India
17 February
Ottomans vs. Safavids
24 February
Political Islam and Islamic Politics in the Modern World: Secularism, the West, and the Road to 9/11
10 March
China: The Road to Opium War
17 March
The First Opium War of 1840
24 March
The Taiping Rebellion: How One Messiah Who Read the Gospel Too Much Almost Wrecked China after He Failed an Exam
31 March
The China-Japan War of 1894-1895: How China 'Lost' the War with Japan and Became the 'Sick Man of Asia'
7 April
Reforms? The Intellectual Fermentation Inside China, the Reformist Thinking: Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao
14 April
Sun Yatsen the 1911 Revolution: The Fall of the Qing and the End of the Monarchy