Elias Shoufani (Arabic: إلياس شوفاني; 1932–26 January 2013) was a Palestinian author and historian whose studies were mostly about the history of Islam and the Israeli affairs.
[2][3] His father, Shukri, was a community leader in Mi'ilya which was a Christian Arab village.
[4][6] The Israeli soldiers killed Nimr, the dog of the family, who was trying to protect the house.
[7] He obtained a master's degree in 1965 and a PhD in Islamic studies in 1968 from Princeton University.
[7] Shoufani left Beirut in 1982 when the Palestinian revolutionaries was forced to leave Lebanon.
One of his books is Al-Riddah and the Muslim Conquest of Arabia (1973) which was an extended version of his PhD thesis.
[13] He translated Mudhakkirāt Simsār Arāḍı̄ Ṣuhyūnı̄ (Arabic: Memoirs of a Zionist land broker) in 2010.