Maya Shatzmiller is a historian that specializes on the economic history of the Muslim world. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003. She received her PhD from the University of Provence in 1973, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1992. Shatzmiller is a professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.
Shatzmiller has critiqued the views of Timur Kuran, arguing that his scholarship paints a negative picture of Islam but does not show why some Muslim countries experience economic difficulties.
Publications Reviews of L'historiographie mérinide:
Reviews of Labour in the Medieval Islamic World:
Reviews of The Berbers and the Islamic State:
Reviews of Her Day in Court:
References
External links Profile at the University of Western Ontario