Research Fields

• Near and Middle Eastern History
• Abrahamic Religions
• Continuities between the ancient Near East, late antique societies, and pre-modern Islamic civilization.

About

Prof. Adam Silverstein is a historian of the Near and Middle East, with a particular focus on Islamic civilization in comparative context. He trained at the University of Cambridge (earning his Ph.D. there in 2002). From 2002 through 2005, Silverstein held a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge. Subsequently, Prof. Silverstein held positions at the University of Oxford, at King's College London, and at Bar Ilan University. Prof. Silverstein joined the Hebrew University in 2021.

Selected Publications

Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, Cambridge, 2007

Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2010

Veiling Esther, Unveiling her Story: The Reception of a Biblical Book in Islamic Lands, Oxford, 2018

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (ed. with Guy Stroumsa), Oxford, 2015

Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives (ed. with Teresa Bernheimer), Oxford: Oxbow, 2012

Teaching

Introduction to Islam

Topics in Early Islamic History

Islamic Geography

Islam as an Abrahamic Religion

Quranic figures in Islamic Historiography