פרופ' דניאלה טלמון-הלר

books:
1. Nehemia Levtzion, Daphna Ephrat, Daniella Talmon-Heller. 1998-2003. Islam: Introduction to the History of the Religion, The Open University of Israel, Tel Aviv, 3 vols. [Hebrew].

2. 2007. Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyubids (1146-1260), Leiden: Brill Academic Press.

3. Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman (eds), 2014. Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Middle East, Leiden: Brill.

4. 2020. Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: An Historical Perspective, Edinburgh University Press.


(b) Refereed chapters in collective volumes.

1. 1996. "The Shaykh and the Community: The Religious Life of Hanbalite Villagers from the Nablus Region (12th-13th Century)," in B. Z. Kedar (ed.), Studies in the History of Popular Culture, Jerusalem: Shazar, pp. 95-110 [in Hebrew].

2. 1998. "Arabic Sources on Muslim Villagers under Frankish Rule," in A.V. Murray (ed.), From Clermont to Jerusalem. The Crusades and Crusader Societies 1095-1500, Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 103-117.

3. 2002. "Religion in the Public Sphere: Rulers, Scholars and Commoners in Zangid and Ayyubid Syria (1150-1260)," in M. Hoexter, S.N Eisenstadt, N. Levtzion (eds.), The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies, Albany: SUNY, pp. 49-64

4. 2002. "Funeral, Burial and Ziyara in Syria during the Crusader and Ayyubid Periods," in: N. Ilan (ed.), The Intertwined Worlds of Islam. Essays in Memory of Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Jerusalem: Bialik, pp. 250-282 [in Hebrew].

5. 2005. "Fidelity, Conformity and Cohesion within Madhhabs in Zangid and Ayyubid Syria," in: P. Bearman, R. Peters and F. Vogel (eds.), The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, Harvard Series in Islamic Law 2, pp. 94-116.

6. 2007. ?Islamic Preaching in Syria during the Counter-Crusade (Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries),? in: In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, ed. I. Shagrir, R. Ellenblum and J. Riley-Smith, Aldershot: Ashgate.

7. 2009. ?Charity and Repentance in Medieval Islamic Thought and Practice,? in: M. Frenkel and Y. Lev (eds.), Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 265-279.

8. Daniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, and Yasser Tabbaa. 2014. ?Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East - introduction,? in: Talmon-Heller and Cytryn-Silverman (eds.), Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East, Leiden: Brill, 1-16.

9. 2015. "Historical Motifs in the Writing of Muslim Authors of the Crusading Era," in: Adrian Boas (ed.) The Crusader World, Abington: Routledge, pp. 378-390.
(Volume included in the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016).

10. 2019. ?Job (Ayyub), al-Husayn and Saladin in Late Ottoman Palestine: the memoirs of Nu`man al-Qasatli, the Arab Scribe of the PEF team," in David Gurevich and Anat Kidron (eds.), Exploring the Holy Land: 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Sheffield: Equinox, 124-151.



(c) Refereed articles scientific journals

1. 1994. "The Shaykh and the Community: Hanbalite Islam in 12th-13th Century Jabal Nablus and Jabal Qasyun," Studia Islamica 79: 103-120.
2. 2002. "Muslim Martyrdom and Quest for Martyrdom in the Crusading Period," Al-Masaq, Journal for the Study of the Medieval Mediterranean 14: 131-140.
3. 2002. "Al-?ik?y?t al-Muqtabasa f? Kar?m?t Mash?yikh al-Ar? al-Muqaddasa - The Cited Tales of the Wondrous Doings of the Shaykhs of the Holy Land by ?iy?? al-D?n al-Maqdis? (569/1173-643/1245): text, translation and commentary," Crusades 1: 111-154.
4. D. Talmon-Heller and Benjamin Z. Kedar. 2005. "Did Muslim Survivors of the 1099 Massacre of Jerusalem Settle in Damascus? The True Origins of the al-Salihiyya Suburb," Al-Masaq 17: 169-165.
5. 2007. "Medieval Muslim Preachers and Exhorters," Zmanim 97: 84-90 [Hebrew].
6. 2007. "Graves, Relics and Sanctuaries: The Evolution of Syrian Sacred Topography," ARAM 19: 601-620.
7. 2009. "`Ilm, Baraka, Shafa`a ? the Resources of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk `Ulama," Mamluk Studies Review 13/2, 1-23.
8. 2012. "Reciting the Qur'an and Reading the Torah: Muslim and Jewish Attitudes and Practices in a Comparative Perspective," Religion Compass 6/8: 369?380.
9. D. Talmon-Heller and Raquel Ukeles. 2012. "The Lure of a Controversial Prayer ? ?al?t al-ragh??ib (the prayer of great rewards) in sixth/twelfth-eighth/fifteenth century Arabic texts and from a socio-legal perspective," Der Islam 89(2): 141-166.
10. 2013. "When it is read unto them, fall down prostrate on their faces' (Q. 17: 107). Reciting Qur'an and Torah: a Comparative Perspective," Peamim 132: 155-125 [Hebrew].
11. 2016. "Scriptures as Holy Objects: Preliminary Comparative Remarks on the Qur??n and the Torah in the Medieval Middle East", Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 4: 210?244.
12. D. Talmon-Heller, B.Z. Kedar, I. Reiter. 2016. "Vicissitudes of a Sacred Relic: Construction, Destruction and Commemoration of Mashhad al-?usayn in Ascalon," Der Islam 93(1): 182?215.
13. 2019. "Historiography in the Service of the Muft?: Ibn Taymiyya on the origins and fallacies of ziy?r?t," Islamic Law and Society 26: 227-251.
14. D. Talmon-Heller and Miriam Frenkel. 2019. "Religious Innovation in Eleventh-century Jerusalem: Jewish and Muslim Rites," Medieval Encounters 25: 203-226.
15. 2023. "Saladin: Medieval Sources and Modern Myths," Jama`a 26, 47-78 https://in.bgu.ac.il/humsos/jamaa/Pages/issue26.aspx
16. 2025. ???Uthm?ni Mu??afs? from the Caliph?s Residence in al-Mad?na to the Topkap? Palace in Istanbul.? al-Masaq 38 (2025): 1-20
https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2025.2538393
17. Accepted. ?Commemorations of Saladin (?al?? al-D?n) and Nation Formation in Palestine/Zion.? History and Memory.
18. Accepted.?The Production of Material Copies of the Word of God in the Medieval Middle East: Jewish and Muslim Traditions.? Journal of the American Oriental Society.
19. Accepted. ?Islamic Conceptions of Sacred Time.? Zmanim 154-155 [in Hebrew].


(d) Unrefereed professional articles and publications

1. 1999. "Muslims and Eastern Christians under Frankish Rule," in: S. Rozenberg (ed.), Knights of the Holy Land: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Jerusalem: Israel Museum [Hebrew].

2. Book review of: Michael Cook, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000, 701 pages, in: Jama`a 10: 159-166 [Hebrew].

3. Daniella Talmon-Heller. 2004. Book review of: Jonathan Berkey, The Formation of Islam 600-1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003, in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 29 : 455-466.

4. 2005. Book review of: Karen Armstrong, Muhammad ? a Biography of a Prophet, Jerusalem: Keter 2004, 324 pages, in Zmanim 92: 111-113 [Hebrew].

5. 2005. "Teaching Islam in Israeli Institutions of Higher Education ? a summary of a workshop held in memory of Prof. Lazarus-Yafeh at Ben-Gurion University, April 17th 2005," Eastern Wind Online Journal 2: 23-26.

6. 2006. "Diya? al-Din al-Maqdisi (1173-1245)," in the Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed. A.V. Murray, Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC Clio, 2: 360-361.

"Druzes," ibid, 2: 365-366.
"Hanbalis," ibid, 2: 557.
"Ibn Jubayr," ibid, 2: 625-626.
"Jihad," ibid, 2:648.
"Martyrdom, Muslim," ibid, 3: 805-806.
"Outremer, Muslim Population," ibid, 3: 926-927.

7. 2007. "Teaching Islam in Israeli Institutions of Higher Education," The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24: 150-155.

8. 2010. "Abu al-Fida?," in the Encyclopedia of Islam, third edition, Leiden: Brill. Online

9. 2011. "?Adi b. Musafir, Shaykh" ibid.

10. 2012. "Ayyubids (1169-1250)," The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. G. Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin J. Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University Press.

11. 2014. Book review of: Linda G. Jones, The Power of Oratory, Cambridge 2012, BSOAS 77, pp. 388-390.

12. 2014. "Burids" in the Encyclopedia of Islam, third edition, Leiden: Brill.

13. 2015. Book review of: Megan Reid, Law and Piety, Cambridge 2014, Islamic Law and Society 22: 212-216.

14. 2017. "Ibn Mufli?," Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition, Leiden: Brill.

15. 2018. Review of Uri Tal (trans., ann. and ed.), Eretz Israel in Medieval Arabic Sources (634-1517). Selected translations, Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi 2014, 571 pp., Kathedra 167 (2018): 171-175 [Hebrew].

16. 2019. "Saladin: Eastern Western and Local Perspectives," ha-Sadna le-Historia Hevratit, ha-Aretz [Hebrew].

17. 2020. "Anecdotes about conversion in twelfth-century Syria in Arabic biographical compilations, in Nimrod Hurvitz, Christian Sahner, Uriel Simonsohn, and Luke Yarbrough (eds), Turning to Mecca: A Sourcebook on Conversion to Islam, California University Press, 205-209.

18. 2022. "?Abd al-Ghan? al-Maqdis?," Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition, Leiden: Brill online.

19. 2022. "Khal?l Ibn Kaykald?," Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition, Leiden: Brill online

20. 2021-22. "Islamic Pilgrimage in the Middle East: An Overview," CISMOR 11: 48-65.

21. 2023. with Dotan Arad and Moshe Yagur, ?The Life of Jews under Muslim Rule in Palestine ? a response to Binyamin Netaniyahu,? ha-Sadna le-Historia Hevratit, ha-Aretz [Hebrew].

22. 2025/6. Book review of: Andreas Go?rke and Mattia Guidetti, eds. Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and beyond. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. IX, 396. ISBN 978-90-04-52531-3 for The Medieval Review.