# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reuven-amitai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:32:03.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reuven-amitai"
name: "Reuven Amitai"
slug: "reuven-amitai"
description: "Reuven Amitai, also Reuven Amitai-Preiss, is an Israeli-American historian and writer, specializing in pre-modern Islamic civilization, especially Syria and Palestine during the time of the Mamluk Empire. In his 20s he moved to Israel, and became history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As of 2012 he is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University."
tagline: "Israeli-American historian and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Reuven_Amitai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.005616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Reuven Amitai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "روفين اميتاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "رون ادمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Reuven Amitai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Amitai"
    title: "Reuven Amitai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Amitai"
    title: "Reuven Amitai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%99"
    title: "ראובן עמיתי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Amitai"
    title: "Reuven Amitai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump