Ze'ev Maghen

Ze’ev Maghen (Hebrew: זאב מגן) is an Israeli scholar.

He is a professor of Arabic and Islamic history and chairman of the Department of Middle East Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

He has written three academic books – Virtues of the Flesh: Purity and Sexuality in Islamic Discourse (Brill, 2005); After Hardship Cometh Ease: Classical Muslim Attitudes to Judaism and Jewish Law (De Gruyter, 2006); and Reading Revolutionary Iran (De Gruyter, 2023) as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on these subjects.

His essay Eradicating the Little Satan: Why Iran Should Be Taken at its Word was the lead article in Commentary (January 2009) and his lengthy treatment Shiite Messianism and Iranian Foreign Policy was the lead article in Middle East Journal (Spring, 2008).

He lectures regularly in the Israel Defense Forces, as well as at universities and in other frameworks in the United States, Europe, Turkey, the Arab World, Russia, Ukraine, India and Latin America.