Shatzmiller, Maya

Maya Shatzmiller is a historian whose scholarship focusses on the economic history of the Muslim world. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003. She received her PhD from the University of Provence in 1973, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1992. Shatzmiller is a professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. Shatzmiller has critiqued the views of Timur Kuran, arguing that his scholarship paints a negative picture of Islam but does not show why some Muslim countries experience economic difficulties.