Category
page 1Historians of the Middle East
Bernard Lewis
British-American historian (1916–2018)

Norman Finkelstein
American political scientist (born 1953)

Ilan Pappé
Israeli-British historian (born 1954)

Martin Gilbert
English historian (1936-2015)

Walter Laqueur
American historian and political commentator (1921-2018)
Philip Khuri Hitti
Lebanese-American academic and authority on the Middle East (1886-1978)
Tom Segev
Israeli historian
Avi Shlaim
Israeli-British historian (born 1945)
Rashid Khalidi
Palestinian-American historian
Stanley Lane-Poole
British orientalist and archaeologist (1854–1931)
Michael Oren
Israeli historian, military officer and diplomat (born 1955)
Cigerxwîn
Cigerxwîn or Cegerxwîn (, ; 1903 – 22 October 1984) was a Kurdish writer and poet. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Kurdish literature. Many of his poems were later adapted into songs, and his work played an important role in the preservation and development of Kurdish culture and literary heritage.
Albert Hourani
British historian (1915–1993)
Ruth Kark
Israeli historical geographer
Masud Ghnaim
Israeli-Arab Member of the Knesset, for United Arab List
Charles Pellat
French Arabist (1914-1992)

Ghada Karmi
Palestinian academic
George Antonius
Lebanese-Egyptian author, historian, and diplomat
Vali Nasr
Iranian-American academic and author (born 1960)
Mikhail Mishaqa
Lebanese historian

Edwin R. Thiele
American archaeologist (1895–1986)

Emeri van Donzel
Dutch historian (1925–2017)
Eleanor Robson
British academic
Fred Halliday
Irish writer and academic (1946-2010)
Kamal Salibi
Academic, writer, historian, researcher
Elie Kedourie
British historian (1926–1992)
Abraham Polak
Israeli historian (1910-1970)
Nikolaos van Dam
Dutch diplomat
Aram Ter-Ghevondyan
Egyptian-born Armenian historian (1928–1988)
Glen Bowersock
American historian (born 1936)
Reuven Amitai
Israeli-American historian and writer
Leo Aryeh Mayer
Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1895-1959)
Nur Masalha
Palestinian historian and writer

Simon Ockley
British translator

Timur Kuran
American academic
Peter Holt
British historian (1918–2006)
Douglas Morton Dunlop
British orientalist (1909-1987)
Philip S. Khoury
American historian
Margot Badran
historian of the Middle East and Islamic societies and a specialist in gender studies
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
German-American historian, economist
Eugene L. Rogan
American historian of the Near and Middle East (born 1960)
Richard Bulliet
American historian
Howard Sachar
Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs, George Washington University (1928-2018)
Suleiman Mousa
Jordanian historian (1919–2008)
Philip Mattar
Palestinian American historian (born 1944)
Hanna Batatu
Palestinian born American historian (1926-2000)
Ehud R. Toledano
University professor
Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg
Dutch archaeologist and historian (1944-2000)
Bayard Dodge
American scholar of Islam (1888–1972)

Joel Beinin
American academic and historian (born 1948)
Sylvia Kedourie
British historian (1925–2016)
Pavel Vyacheslavovich Gusterin
Russian orientalist
André Raymond
French historian
Yousef Ghawanmeh
Jordanian historian
Maher Charif
Palestinian historian
Saleh Abd al-Jawad
Palestinian historian
Pyotr Karyshkovsky
historian (1921–1988)

Wm. Roger Louis
American historian
Mahmoud Yazbak
Muʼarrikh Filasṭīnī
Yehoshua Porath
Israeli historian and academic (1938–2019)