Norman Stillman

His major publications are The Jews of Arab Lands: a History And Source Book and Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity.

In the last few years, Stillman has been the executive editor of the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World",[1] a project that includes over 2000 entries in 5 volumes.

He received the Ohio State University Melton Center's Distinguished Humanist award in 2000 and was a visiting scholar at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris in 2001-2002.

His research has included work on modern folk medicine, magic, and medieval pharmacology, which have been published in "The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou", as well as in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

[2] In 2005, he held the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Committee annual public lecture of the Center for Arts and Humanities, University of Missouri.