Nisha Rathode (Editor) I love writing and learning new things in order to better educate those in need. I also enjoy hackathons and adventures around the world.
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada People also search forS. Ilan Troen, Michael Bonner, David A Reisman BooksJews - Christians - and the A, Demonizing the Queen of Sheba, Islam in the Middle Ages: Th, The Middle East Remembered, The topography of Baghd
Jacob lassner islam then and now
Jacob Lassner is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization Emeritus at Northwestern University. and former Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Lassner specializes in Medieval Near Eastern History with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations.
Lassner received a PhD degree from Yale University in 1963.
Lassner has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council.
Books
Islam in the Middle Ages (2010 projected issue date); co-author
Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces: Memory and Communal Conflict in the Medieval Near East
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined (2007); co-author
Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory: an inquiry (2005)
Cairo's Ben Ezra Synagogue: a gateway . . (2001)
The Middle East Remembered; Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (2000)
A Mediterranean Society: an abridgement in one volume (1999); co-author
History of Al Tabari: The 'Abbasid Recovery : The War Against the Zanj (Suny Series in Near Eastern Studies) (1987); co-author
Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory (1986)
The History of Al-Tabari (1984); co-author
The Shaping of Abbasid Rule (1980)
The Topography of Baghdad in the early Middle Ages;: Text and studies by Jacob Lassner (1970); co-author
Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) (1993)
