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Michal Biran is the Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, and from October 2021, head of the Institute of Asian and African Study at the Hebrew University. She is a historian of Inner Asia, imperial China and the medieval Islamic world who teaches at the departments of Asian Studies and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. She has published extensively on the Mongol Empire, Mongol and pre-Mongol Central Asia (especially the Qara Khitai and the Chaghadaids), cross-cultural contacts between China, nomadic empires and the Muslim world, comparative study of empires, nomadic culture, migrations and mobility, and Ilkhanid Baghdad.
Autor or editor of 12 books and volumes and dozens of articles, together with Hodong Kim she has recently completed editing The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire (2 vols. forthcoming 2022). Recent publications include Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals (co-edited with Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti, University of California Press, 2020, Korean translation 2021) and The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared (co-edited with Yuri Pines and Jörg Rüpke, Cambridge University Press, 2021).