Jacob Lassner

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Jacob Lassner (PhD Yale, 1963) is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization at Northwestern University.^[1] Professor Lassner is interested in specializes in medieval Near Eastern History with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations. ^[2] 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. ^[3]

[edit] Books

• 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; with Ilan Troen, 2007

• The Middle East Remembered; Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces, University of Michigan Press, 2000

• History of Al Tabari: The 'Abbasid Recovery : The War Against the Zanj (Suny Series in Near Eastern Studies) with Philip M. Fields (1987)

• The topography of Baghdad in the early Middle Ages;: Text and studies by Jacob Lassner (1970)

• Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) by Jacob Lassner (1993)

[edit] References

1. ^ Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University
2. ^ Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University
3. ^ Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University

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