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Lev Weitz
Catholic University of America
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave NE 230 O'Boyle Hall
Washington DC 20064
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Christian Studies
History Of Religion
Islamic Studies
Medieval
Geographic Areas of Interest
Syria
Iraq
Egypt
Specialties
Interreligious Relations In The Arabophone World
History Of The Family
Law And Society
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Syriac (advanced)
Coptic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2013 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton University
BA | 2006 | Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | New York University
Abstracts
'He Has Gone on a Long Journey': Wives, Disappeared Husbands, and East Syrian Law in Abbasid Iraq Analogy and Tradition in East Syrian Law: A Dispute over Cousin Marriage Property, Gender, and Interreligious Marriage in Abbasid Iraq Concubinage and Christians in the Abbasid Caliphate