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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Assistant Professor of History Email:  zbd1@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: World history; Chinese History; Islam in Asia; Religious Minorities in World History; Exile; Diaspora and Historiography; Comparative Human Rights; Chinese Muslim history.

Select Publications:

The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China.  Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. 

“The Marrano Emperor: The Mysterious Bond between Zhu Yuanzhang and the Chinese Muslims,” Ming Studies, forthcoming.

“Medinat Hayehudim Medina Arit: Michael Selzer, Mizrahim Galut Shlishit” (The Jewish State as anAryanState: Michael Selzer, the Oriental Jews, and the “Third Exile”), Theory and Criticism, April 2005. 

“Sleeper Agents: Religious Expansion, Assimilation, and the Islamic Conquest‚ ofChina in the Christian Missionary Imagination,”Port-Louis,Mauritius: Hassam Toorawa Trust Occasional Papers.

“From Literati‚ to `Ulama‚: The Origins of Chinese Muslim Nationalist Historiography,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 2003/4), pp. 83-109.

“Even unto China‚: Displacement and Chinese Muslim Myths of Origin,” in Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Winter, 2002/3, pp. 93-114.

“Les Partis Religieux en Israel,” in Revue d‚études Palestiniennes  (61:9), autumn, 1996, pp. 16-26.

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