Dr Maher Y. Abu-Munshar

Dr Maher Y. Abu-Munshar

Associate Professor of Islamic History

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Publications

Books:

  1. Islamic Jerusalem and its Christians: A History of Tolerance and Tensions, I.B. Tauris Publishers. London & New York. 2007 & 2013.

Articles in refereed journals:

  • Al-Tamaddun Journal. Vol. 14. no: 2  (December 2019).
  • International Journal of Humanities and Social Science. Vol. 8. No. 4 (2018).
  • n the Shadow of the ‘Arab Spring’: the Fate of Non-Muslims under Islamist Rule. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 23 (issue. 4). October 2012 (Routledge)
  1. Did Caliph ’Umar Act Against Islam? Banu Taghlib Tribe as a Case Study. Journal of Al-Tamddun (December 2010)
  2. The Compatibility of Islam with Pluralism, Journal of Islam and Civilisational Renewal.  Vol. 1, no 4. July 2010 (Pluto Journals)
  3. Fatimids, Crusaders and the Fall of Islamic Jerusalem, Foes or Allies? Al-Masaq: Islam & the Medieval Mediterranean. Vol. 22 (issue I), April 2010 (Routledge).
  4. The Attitude of Christians towards the First Muslim fath (conquest) of Islamic Jerusalem. Journal of Islamic Jerusalem Studies, Vol. 9, Summer 2008.
  5. Islamic Jerusalem: A Model for Multiculturalism, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) Vol. 23, no. 4 (fall 2006).
  6. The Position of Islamic Jerusalem in the Negotiations between Sultan Salah al-Din and King Richard I ‘the Lion-Heart’. Journal of Islamic Jerusalem Studies, Vol. 6, Summer 2005, no. 1.

Book Chapters:

  1. The Endowment Deed (waqfiyya) of Qaṣr Waqf Abūʾl-Huda, Ramla, July 1713. In ‘Ramla: City of Muslim Palestine, 715-1917. Studies in History, Archaeology and Architecture’. (Ed. Andrew Petersen and Denys Pringle). (Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford. July 2021).
  2. Teaching the History of Al-Andalus in Arab Universities: An Analytical Study. In ‘Al-Andalus: Archaeology, History and Memory’ (Ed. Jose C Carvajal Lopez). University College London (Qatar) & Akkadia Press, UK, September 2016).
  3. Christian Reactions to the Muslim Conquest of Jerusalem (637CE). In ‘Christians and the Middle East Conflict’ (Eds. Paul S Rowe, John H.A. Dyck, Jens Zimmermann) (Routledge.: June 2014).
  4. An Analytical Study of Justice in the Behaviour of Caliph Umar in Islamic Jerusalem’ in A. Ali and M. R Nor. (Eds.). Baitul al-Maqdis:  A History of the fall of Palestine and the Existence of Israel.(Malaysia: The Society of Malaysians Scholars and the Department of History and Islamic Civilisation-University of Malaya, 2010)
  5. Bayt al-Maqdis Namuthajan lita’adudiyya. in El-Awaisi A. (ed.) Al-Bu’d al-Acadimi wa al-Ma’rifi libayt al-Maqdis (Damascus: Islamic Research Academy-UK and the Humanities & Social Sciences research Centre at the University of Science and Technology – Yemen, 2008)

Other Articles:

  • Settling the ‘infidels’ question in Islam.Special Series: Myth of Islam as Inherently Violent. Common Ground News Service – Partners in Humanity Special Series (01 December 2009) http://www.commongroundnews.org/series.php?sid=1&lan=en&edId=2605
  • Religious pluralism and Islam. Pluralism in Muslim majority countries. Common Ground News Service – Partners in Humanity Special Series (21 July 2009) http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=25934&lan=en&sid=1&sp=0

Book review:

  • Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727. By Nabil Matar (Columbia University Press). Times Higher Education, March 2009.
  • Mapping Islamicjerusalem: A Rediscovery of Geographical Boundaries. By Khalid El-Awaisi (Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press, Dundee) 2007. Journal of Islamic Jerusalem Studies, vol. 7, 2007, pp. 93-97.
  • Introducing Islamicjerusalem.By Abd al-Fattah M. El-Awaisi (Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press, Dun