Norman Stillman

Norman Arthur Stillman, also Noam (נועם, in Hebrew; born 1945), is an American academic, historian, and Orientalist, serving as the emeritus Schusterman-Josey Professor and emeritus Chair of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma. He specializes in the intersection of Jewish and Islamic culture and history, and in Oriental and Sephardi Jewry, with special interest in the Jewish communities in North Africa. His major publications are ''The Jews of Arab Lands: a History And Source Book'' and ''Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity''. In the last few years, Stillman has been the executive editor of the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World", a project that includes over 2000 entries in 5 volumes. Provided by Wikipedia