Jacob Lassner

Jacob Lassner (PhD Yale, 1963) is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization at Northwestern University. [ [http://www.religion.northwestern.edu/faculty/lassner.html Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University ] ] 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. [ [http://www.religion.northwestern.edu/faculty/lassner.html Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University ] ] 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. [ [http://www.religion.northwestern.edu/faculty/lassner.html Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University ] ]

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)

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