Amalia Levanoni

Amalia Levanoni (Hebrew: עמליה לבנוני; born June 22, 1944) is an Israeli historian and professor emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Haifa.^[1] She specializes in the history of Mamluks and the Mamluk Sultanate.

Amalia Levanoni
עמליה לבנוני
Levanoni in 2008
Born	(1944-06-22) June 22, 1944 (age 81) Basra, Iraq
Occupation(s)	Historian, professor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Haifa Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisor	Nehemia Levtzion
Academic work
Institutions	University of Haifa

She was born in Basra, Iraq. She immigrated with her family in 1951 and has lived in Haifa since 1959. She studied at the University of Haifa and then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her doctorate degree, which she received in 1990 in Islamic history. Her advisor was Nehemia Levtzion.

Books

Author

• Levanoni, Amalia (1995). A Turning Point in Mamluk History: The Third Reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341). Leiden Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-9004101821.

Editor

• Egypt and Syria under Mamluk rule: political, social and cultural aspects. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 2022. ISBN 978-9004459519.