Amira Bennison

Professor
Amira K. Bennison
Professor Amira K. Bennison
Born	Katherine Nicole Bennison
Nationality	British
Occupation	Historian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions	Magdelene College, University of Cambridge
Main interests	Medieval Middle Eastern and Maghreb history
Notable works	Jihad and Its Interpretation in Pre-colonial Morocco: State-society Relations During the French Conquest of Algeria (2002); Cities in The pre-Modern Islamic World: the urban impact of religion, state and society (2007); The Great Caliphs: the golden age of the ‘Abbasid empire (2011); The Almoravid and Almohad Empires (2016);

Amira K. Bennison is a professor of the history and culture of the Maghreb at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.