Norman Stillman

Norman Arthur Stillman, born in 1945, is an emeritus professor of Jewish history at the University of Oklahoma in the United States and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work focuses on encounters between Jewish and Muslim cultures in communities in North Africa and the Middle East. Founder of the Center for Jewish and Israeli Studies, he supervised for many years the AJS Review (1989-1999), the most famous journal of Jewish publications and studies in the United States. He is the author of several books, including The Jews of Arab Lands and The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times. He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, which has received several international awards. His many articles have been written in English, Hebrew and French, and are translated into other languages, including German, Portuguese, Arabic and Turkish.