Miri Shefer-Mossensohn () is professor of Middle Eastern history at

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, and the current Head of the university's Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies. She specializes in Ottoman &

Turkish Studies Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and the Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative c ...

, with a focus on the

history of medicine The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. The history of med ...

cultural history Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

and

environmental history Environmental history is the study of Human impact on the environment, human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa. Environmental history first emerged ...

. Shefer-Mossensohn has attracted international media attention for an online learning

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titled "Arab-Islamic History: From Tribes to Empires”, which has garnered "over 20,000

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s from 155 countries," including from "

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and

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". It was ranked among top 50 online courses according to one poll. Shefer-Mossensohn is a regular

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commentator on

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and Middle Eastern affairs in the

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i press, including in staple news outlets like

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and

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Selected works

* Miri Shefer-Mossensohn,
Science among the Ottomans: The cultural creation and exchange of knowledge
' (University of Texas Press, Austin, 2015). * Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri, and Keren Abou Hershkovitz.
Early Muslim Medicine and the Indian Context: A Reinterpretation
" ''Medieval Encounters'' 19.3 (2013): 274–299. * Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri.
A Sick Sultana in the Ottoman Imperial Palace: Male Doctors, Female Healers and Female Patients in the Early Modern Period1
" ''Hawwa'' 9.3 (2011): 281–312. * Miri Shefer-Mossensohn,
Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions: 1500-1700
' (SUNY Press, Albany, 2009)''.'' * Mossensohn, Miri Shefer.
Health as a social agent in Ottoman patronage and authority
" ''New Perspectives on Turkey'' 37 (2007): 147–175.

External links

Departmental page

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri Israeli historians Scholars of Ottoman history Middle Eastern studies scholars Living people Year of birth missing (living people)