Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Mongols and the Rise of Genghis Khan
Summary
Experience a deep dive into the significance of Mongol culture by examining the rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. What do the Mongols say about his rise? What does the new science of paleoclimatology tell us about this remarkable period in history?
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).