Jacob Lassner

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Name Jacob Lassner		Education Yale University (1963)


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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.

Education and honors

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)

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