Jacob Lassner is an American writer and Jewish studies academic. He is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization Emeritus at

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Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University
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ern history with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations.

Education and honors

Lassner received a

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degree from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1963. Lassner has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the

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(NEH), and the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council.

Books

*''Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews'' (University of Michigan Press, 2017) *''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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Brief biography
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