Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals:

1.               Luz, N. (1996), ‘Umayyad al-Ramla – Historical and Geographical Aspects’, Cathedra for the History of Eretz-Israel and its Yishuv, Vol. 79: 22-52. (Hebrew)

2.               Luz, N. (1997), ‘Umayyad al-Ramla – An Urban Innovation in Palestine’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 7, No. 1:  27-54.

3.               Luz, N. (1998), ‘The Aqueduct the Overcame the Force of Gravity? The Case of the Aqueduct of al-Ramla – A Geographical Analysis of Historical Sources’, Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 15: 117-126. (Hebrew)

4.               Luz, N. (2002), ‘Aspects of Islamization of Space and Society in Mamlūk Jerusalem and Its Hinterland’, Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. 6: 135-155.

5.               Luz, N. (2003), ‘The Events of the Jewish Synagogue as a Mirror of the Public Sphere in Mamluk Jerusalem’, The New East, (Hamizrach Hachcdash) 44 (Forthcoming)

 

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

1.               Luz, N. (1999), ‘Amwas – the First Capital of Jund Filastin’, in Y. Ben Artzi, I. Bartal, and E. Reiner, (eds), Essays in Honor of Yehusua Ben Arieh, Jerusalem: Magnes Press: 174-184. (Hebrew)

2.               Luz, N. 'Jerusalem as a Mamluk-Muslim City and as an Islamic City, An Overview of the Characteristics and the Paradigm of the Islamic City', forthcoming in R. Amitai and Y. Friedman, (eds), The History of Mamluk Jerusalem.

3.               Luz, N. (2002), 'Tripoli Reinvented. A case of Mamluk urbanization', in Y. Lev, (ed), Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East, Leiden: Brill: 53-72.

4.               Luz, N. (2003) 'Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria. Forms, Characteristics and the impact of socio-cultural forces', forthcoming in A. Levanoni and M. Vinter, (eds), The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society, Sussex Academic Press.

5.               Luz, N. (2003), 'The Re-making of Beersheba: Winds of Modernization in Late Ottoman Sultanate' forthcoming in I. Weissman, and F. Zachs (eds), Ottoman Reforms and Muslim Regeneration. Studies in Honor of Prof. Butrus Abu Manneh, I. B. Tauris.

 

Monographs:

1.               Luz, N. (1997) The Role of the Waqf in Shaping the Urban Milieu, The Case of Mamluk Jerusalem. (Mimeograph)

2.               Luz, N. (2001), The Trouble with Sacred Places: The Case of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem. (Mimeograph)

3.               Luz, N. (2003), Views, Notions, and Construction Themes of al-Haram Sharif in the Palestinian Public Discourse in Israel, The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study. (Forthcoming) 

 

In Process:

1.               Luz, N. 'Unearthing the Urban Past. The role of vernacular architecture'.

2.               Luz, N. 'Nationalizing the Noble Sanctuary. The Creation of a Palestinian national shrine at the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem'.

3.               Luz, N. 'Self-Empowerment through the Sacred. Culture and representation in the Urban Landscape: The mosque of Hassan Bey and the Arab community of Jaffa'.

 

Conferences, Presentations, and Invited Lectures

1.               Annual Conference of the Israeli Geographic Society, Bar-Ilan University, December 1993.

2.               Annual Conference of the Israeli Geographic Society, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 1995.

3.               Bi-National British-Israeli Conference of Historical Geographers: The Role of Institution in Historical Geography, Cambridge U. K., April 1995.

4.               Paper presented at a special international workshop: Order and Anarchy: The Management of Urban Space and Society. Department of Middle East Studies and the Herzog Center, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, March 1997.

5.               Annual Conference of the Israeli Geographic Society, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, December 1997.

6.               Annual Conference of the Israeli Geographic Society, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, December 1998.

7.               Annual Conference of the Israeli Oriental Society, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, April 1998.

8.               Public lecture at the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures, A joint venture of Mishkenot Shananim and the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, May 1998.

9.               Key note lecture at a special conference: Ramla: The Development of a Town from the Early Islamic to Ottoman Periods’, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, March 1999.

10.           Paper presented in: New Findings in the Study and Layout of Jerusalem: Roman to Mamluk Period. A conference held at the Center for the Research of Eretz-Israel at Yad Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, January 2000.

11.           Paper presented in: The Islamic City and the Mediterranean City, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, May 2000.

12.           International conference: The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Order. University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University, Haifa and Tel Aviv, May 2000.

13.           Seminar at The Yi Fu Tuan Lectures Series, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, November 2000.

14.           Seminar at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 2001.

15.           Annual Conference of the Israeli Geographic Society, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, December 2001.

16.           Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Los Angeles Ca, March 2002.

17.           Conference: Arabs and Jews Relations – Past, Present and Future. The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Study, Neve Illan, March 2002.

18.           Paper presented at The Ninth International Workshop of the Department of Middle East Studies: The Dissemination of Islam Within and Beyond Muslim Societies, Historical, Anthropological and Comparative perspective. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, June 2003.