# Jacob Lassner

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'''Jacob Lassner''' is an American writer and [Jewish studies](/source/Jewish_studies) academic. He is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of [Jewish civilization](/source/Jewish_civilization) Emeritus at [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University)<ref name="religion.northwestern.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewish-studies.northwestern.edu/faculty/jacob-lassner.html |title=Jacob Lassner, Faculty, Religion Department, WCAS, Northwestern University<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=July 31, 2013 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055815/http://www.jewish-studies.northwestern.edu/faculty/jacob-lassner.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and former Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. Lassner specializes in Medieval [Near East](/source/Near_East)ern history with an emphasis on urban structures, [political culture](/source/political_culture) and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations.<ref name="religion.northwestern.edu"/>

==Education and honors==
Lassner received a [PhD](/source/PhD) degree from [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) in 1963.

Lassner has received awards from the [Guggenheim Foundation](/source/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation), the [National Endowment for the Humanities](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities) (NEH), and the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council.<ref name="religion.northwestern.edu"/>

==Books==
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*''Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews'' (University of Michigan Press, 2017)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Medieval Jerusalem : forging an Islamic city in spaces sacred to Christians and Jews|last=Jacob|first=Lassner|isbn=9780472130368|location=Ann Arbor|oclc=959265480|date = 2017-04-27}}</ref>
*''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)

==References==
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==External links==
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20160818065026/http://www.history.northwestern.edu/people/documents/cvLassner.pdf Brief biography]," Department of History, Northwestern University.
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