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Dissertation:

Aspects of the Ridda wars, supervised by Prof. M. J. Kister and Prof. D. Ayalon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981 (in Hebrew, abstract in English).

Book (translated and annotated):

Biographies of Companions and their Successors, a Translation of al-Ṭabarī ‘s Dhayl al-mudhayyal, translated and annotated by Ella Landau-Tasseron, State University of New York, 1998 (within the framework of the Tabari Translation Project, SUNY).

Articles:

      1.  “The participation of Ṭayy in the ridda”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and   Islam, 5 (1984), pp. 53-73

 

2.  “Asad from Jahiliyya To Islam”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 6 (1895),  pp. 1-29

 

3. “F. McG. Donner, The Early Islamic Conquests, Princeton 1981 (review article), Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 6 (1985), pp. 493-512

 

4. “The Sinful Wars: Religious, Social and Historical Aspects of urūb al-fijār, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 8 (1986),  pp. 37-61

 

5. “Processes of Redaction”: the case of the Tamīmite delegation to the Prophet Muhammad”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 49 (1986),  pp. 253-270

 

6. “The cyclical reform: a study of the mujaddid tradition”, Studia Islamica, 70 (1989),  pp. 79-117

 

7. “Sayf b. cUmar in medieval and modern scholarship”, Der Islam, 67 (1990),  pp. 1-26

 

8. “Zaydi imams as restorers of religion”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 49 (1990),  pp. 247-63

 

9. “The waning of the Umayyads: notes on al-Ṭabarī‘s History translated, vol. XXVI”, Der Islam, 69 (1992), pp. 81-109 (review article)

 

10. “Features of the pre-conquest Muslim army: the time of Muhammad”, in A. Cameron and L. Conrad (eds.), Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, III, Princeton N.J, 1996 ,pp. 299-336

 

11. “Unearthing a pre-Islamic Arabian prophet”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 21 (1997), pp. 43-61

 

12. “From tribal society to centralized polity: an interpretation of events and anecdotes of the formative period of Islam”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 24 (2000), pp. 180-216

 

13. “New data on an old manuscript: an Andalusian version of the works entitled Futūh al-Shām, Al-Qantara 21 (2000), pp. 361-80

 

14. Almut Nebel, Ella Landau-Tasseron, Dvora Filon, Ariella Oppenheim, and Marina Faerman, “Genetic evidence for the expansion of Arabian tribes into the southern Levant and North Africa”, The American Journal oh Human Genetics, 70 (2002),  pp. 1594-95

 

15. “Adoption, acknowledgment of paternity and false genealogical claims”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66 (2003), 2, 169-92

 

16.    “On the reconstruction of lost sources”, Al-Qantara, 25 (2004), pp. 45-91. (This article was originally to appear in L. Conrad (ed.),  History and Historiography in the Early Medieval Near East: studies in vision and method, Princeton N.J. Darwin Press, and it is sometimes cited as such, but that volume was never published)

17.     “Alliances among the Arabs”,  Al-Qantara, 26 (2005), pp. 141-73

 

18.    “Alliances in Islam”, in M. Bernards and J. Nawas, (eds.), Patronate and Patronage in Early and Classical Islam: Origin, Legal regulations and Social Practice, Leiden: Brill, 2005, pp. 1-49

The article can be reached online at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=RqdcXWARYCQC&pg=PR7&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1&sig=ACfU3U3Gt-rXi0GOIoRQC50ldowy9IE7CQ

 

19.    “The status of allies in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabian society”, Islamic Law and Society,  13 (2006), 1 pp. 6-32

 

20.    “Non combatants in Islamic legal thought”, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World: Research Monographs on the Muslim World, Series No 1, Paper No 3, December 2006

The article can be reached online at:

http://www.futureofmuslimworld.com/research/pubID.60/pub_detail.asp

 

 

21 “The origin of the idea of jihad”, in War and Peace, Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar center, 2010 pp. 99-106 (in Hdebrew)

 

22. “John Kelsay, Arguing the Just War in Islam, Harvard University Press 2007”, review article, JSAI 34, 2008 pp. 535-50

 

23. “The religious foundations of political allegiance: a study of bay`a  in pre modern Islam”, Research Monographs on the Muslim World, series no. 2, paaper no. 4, May 2010, Hudson Institute

24. Arabia between the first/seventh and the fifth/eleventh centuries, forthcoming in The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 1.

 

 

 

Entries in encyclopedias,

1.      “Mālik b. Nuwayra”, The Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition,  Leiden, VI, pp. 267-69

2.  “Banū Murra”, The Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden VII,  pp. 628-31

3.  “Ṭulayha”, The Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden, X, pp. 603-604

4. “Dū Qār”, Encyclopedia Iranica, California VII, pp. 574-75

5.       “Jihād”, The Encyclopedia of the Quran,  vol. 3, pp. 35-43

6.      “Tribes and clans”, The Encyclopedia of the Quran,  vol. 5, pp. 363-368

 

 

 

Book review,

 “Muhammad and the Rise of Islam: The creation of group identity, by S. C. Inamdar”, MESA bulletin, 2002.