Career
Lecker taught at the Hebrew University between 1978 and 2021. His 1978Prizes and awards
* 1975: The Josef David Farhi Prize (Institute of Asian and African Studies) * 1980: The S.M. Stern Prize (Institute of Asian and African Studies) * 1983: The Mauricio Richter Fellowship (The Hebrew University) * 1984-1985: Rothschild Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Yad Hanadiv Foundation, Jerusalem. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London. * 1987-1989: Yigal Alon Fellowship, Council for Higher Education, IsraelSelect bibliography
Lecker's works include: * “Did Muhammad conclude Treaties with the Jewish Tribes Naḍīr, Qaynuqāʿ, and Qurayẓa,” in Uri Rubin and David Wasserstein, eds., ''Israel Oriental Studies'', Volume 17: Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 1997), pp. 29–36. * “Glimpses of Muḥammad’s Medinan Decade,” in Jonathan E. Brockopp, ed., ''The Cambridge Companion to Muḥammad'' (Cambridge, New York et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 61–82. * ''Jews and Arabs in Pre- and Early Islamic Arabia'' (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 1998). * ''Muhammad ve-ha-yehudim'' (Hebrew: "Muhammad and the Jews") (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2014). * “Muhammad at Medina: A Geographical Approach,” ''Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam'', 6 (1985), pp. 29–62. * ''Muslims, Jews and Pagans: Studies on Early Islamic Medina'' (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017). * “On Arabs of the Banū Kilāb Executed Together with the Jewish Banū Qurayẓa,” ''Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam'', 19 (1995), pp. 66–72. * ''People, Tribes and Society in Arabia Around the Time of Muhammad'' (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2005). * “Sulaym,” ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. 9, pp. 817–818. * “The Assassination of the Jewish Merchant Ibn Sunayna according to an Authentic Family Account,” in Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Kees Versteegh and Joas Wagemakers, eds., T''he Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki'' (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 181–195. * ''The Banū Sulaym: A Contribution to the Study of Early Islam The Max Schloessinger Memorial Series, Monographs IV'' (Jerusalem: Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University, 1989). * “The Death of the Prophet Muḥammad’s Father: Did Wāqidī Invent Some of the Evidence?,” ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'' (145), 1995, pp. 9–27. * “The Jews of Northern Arabia in Early Islam,” in Phillip I. Lieberman, ed., ''The Cambridge History of Judaism Vol. 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World'' (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 255–293. * “Ukaydir ibn ʿAbdul Malik al-Kindī,” ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. 10, p. 784. * “ʿUyayna b. Ḥiṣn,” ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. 10, pp. 959–960. * “Wādī ʾl-Ḳurā,” ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. 11, pp. 18–19. * “Wāqidī (d. 822) vs. Zuhrī (d. 742): The Fate of the Jewish Banū Abī l-Ḥuqayq,” in C. J. Robin, ed., ''Le judaïsme de l'Arabie antique: Actes du Colloque de Jérusalem'' (février 2006) (Paris: Brepols, 2015), pp. 495–509. * “Wāqidī's Account on the Status of the Jews of Medina: A Study of a Combined Report,” ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', Vol. 54, No. 1 (January 1995), pp. 15–32. * “Were there Female Relatives of the Prophet Muḥammad among the Besieged Qurayẓa?” ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', Vol. 136, No. 2 (April–June 2016), pp. 397–404. * “Zayd B. Thābit, ‘A Jew with Two Sidelocks’: Judaism and Literacy in Pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib),” ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', Vol. 56, No. 4 (October 1997), pp. 259–273.References
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