Jacob Lassner is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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Professor Lassner specializes in Medieval Near Eastern

Near East

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 History with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture

Political culture

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 and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations.

Education and honors

Lassner received a PhD

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 degree from Yale University

Yale University

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 in 1963.

Lassner has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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, the National Endowment for the Humanities

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(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)