Jacob Lassner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1439346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Lassner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Lassner |
| SIGNATURE | LASSNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modern Europe and Traditional Islamic Views of Jews and Judaism: Restoring the Postscript to a Study of Early Jewish–Muslim Relations
Jews and Muslims Competing for Sacred Space
While Judaism and Islam are Abrahamic faiths with a shared tradition and common ground for belief and practice, this has not always or even primarily translated into a greater acceptance or appreciation of the other in Islamic history. This essay examines two new books that explore related themes about Jews and Judaism. The first book explores how different Muslim traditions have come to view Jews and Judaism based on interpretations of the Islam…
Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory: Martyrdom, Revolution, and Forging National Identities
How is the complex history of the ancient Near East and Islamic World brought to bear in contemporary political discourse
The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History
The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in the West; and presided over an age of brilliant cultural achievements. This study, first published in 1981, examines the Abbasid Caliphs from their coming to power in 750 AD, to the death of the Caliph al-Ma’mun in 833 AD, when the period of Turkish d…
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine
This book supplements an earlier volume on the politics of sacred space titled, Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Confrontation and Co-Existence (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics, 2010). Both volumes are the outgrowth of an international conference hosted in Haifa and in the Arab town Baqa al-Gharbiyya in 2006. The current volume, arranged in three parts, consists of a series of individual papers prepared by authorities…
Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam: Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
Islam in the Middle Ages: The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization
In the Middle Ages, a varied and vibrant Islamic culture flourished in all its aspects, from religious institutions to legal and scientific endeavors. Lassner, Reisman, and Bonner detail how all three montheist traditions are linked to the same sacred history. They trace the most current scholarship on the Arabian background to Islam, the prophet's early religious message and its appeal. They the Qur'an and how it would have been understood by th…
Whither Shi'ite Islam? Authenticating a Shi'ite Future based on Reading the Islamic Past
The Iranian Revolution is regarded as a major watershed in the post-World War II history of the Middle East, a transformative event which altered the rhythms of daily life and catapulted religious leaders to an unprecedented political position. Naturally, the revolution has been the subject of intense scrutiny of both academic and non-academic nature. Scholarly works on the subject tend to focus on a particular theme or period of modern Iranian h…
The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces
Mediterranean Society, An Abridgment in One Volume
S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under Muslim rule, the Jews became increasingly urbanized and played a significant part in an expanding world economy. As major actors in the flourishing intellectual life of the period, they forged much of what constitut…
Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam
Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate the processes of cultural transmission. The Bible presents the Queen of Sheba's encounter with King Solomon as a diplomatic mission: the qu…
"Doing" Early Islamic History: Brooklyn Baseball, Arabic Historiography, and Historical Memory
(Res.d'A.). Having been thrust into the post-modern age (a century a half after the birth of the American Oriental Society) how are scholars trained in oriental studies to do Islamic history? Put somewhat differently: given the highly tendentious nature of those sources that describe the formative centuries of Islam, what is the relationship between medieval literary texts and actual states of the past? In sum, what may safely expect to recover o…
Zur Ubersetzung der Chronik des Tabari
The Covenant of the Prophets: Muslim Texts, Jewish Subtexts
For several years I have been trying to analyze Muslim historical thinking and the manner in which it affected perceptions of the Jewish past a past which Muslims fully appropriated as part of their own historical experiences and world-view. Put somewhat differently, I have been trying to understand the process by which a heritage common to both monotheistic faiths could and did become a bone of contention as well as a basis of mutual understandi…
The History of al-Tabari. Volume IV, The Ancient Kingdoms
Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory: An Inquiry into the Art of ʿAbbāsid Apologetics
Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī: The Emergence of a Secret Agent from Kurāsān, Irāq, or Was It Iṣfahān
The Shaping of ʿAbbāsid Rule
"Lassner's "Shaping of 'Abbāsid Rule
The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule
Provincial Administration under the Early 'Abbasids: Abu Ja'far al-Mansur and the Governors of the Haramayn
Provincial Administration under the Early 'Abbasids: The Ruling Family and the Amsar of Iraq
Baghdad, Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate
The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages
The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages
The Covenant of the Prophets: Muslim Texts, Jewish Subtexts
For several years I have been trying to analyze Muslim historical thinking and the manner in which it affected perceptions of the Jewish past a past which Muslims fully appropriated as part of their own historical experiences and world-view. Put somewhat differently, I have been trying to understand the process by which a heritage common to both monotheistic faiths could and did become a bone of contention as well as a basis of mutual understandi…
Some Speculative Thoughts on the Search for an 'Abbāsid Capital
Why Did the Caliph Al-Manṣūr Build Ar-Ruṣafah?-A Historical Note
The Habl of Baghdad and the Dimensions of the City: A Metrological Note
Notes on the Topography of Baghdad: The Systematic Descriptions of the City and the Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
Jacob Lassner, Notes on the Topography of Baghdad: The Systematic Descriptions of the City and the Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Sep. - Dec., 1963), pp. 458-469
Some Speculative Thoughts on the Search for an 'Abbāsid Capital
Why Did the Caliph Al-Manṣūr Build Ar-Ruṣafah?-A Historical Note
Massignon and Baghdad: (The Complexities of Growth in an Imperial City*)
Massignon and Baghdad: The Complexities of Growth in an Imperial City
Municipal Entities and Mosques: An Additional Note on the Imperial Center
History of Egypt. An Extract from Abū l-Maḥāsin Ibn Tahgrī Birdī's Chronicle Entitled Hawādith ad-Duhūr fī Maḍā l-Ayyām wash-Shuhūr (845-854 A. H., A. D. 1441-1450)
The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages
The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages
Jews in the Economic and Political Life of Medieval Islam
Baghdad, Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate
Provincial Administration under the Early 'Abbasids: Abu Ja'far al-Mansur and the Governors of the Haramayn
Provincial Administration under the Early 'Abbasids: The Ruling Family and the Amsar of Iraq
The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule
"Lassner's "Shaping of 'Abbāsid Rule
The Shaping of ʿAbbāsid Rule
Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī: The Emergence of a Secret Agent from Kurāsān, Irāq, or Was It Iṣfahān
The History of al-Tabari. Volume IV, The Ancient Kingdoms
Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory: An Inquiry into the Art of ʿAbbāsid Apologetics
Zur Ubersetzung der Chronik des Tabari
The Covenant of the Prophets: Muslim Texts, Jewish Subtexts
For several years I have been trying to analyze Muslim historical thinking and the manner in which it affected perceptions of the Jewish past a past which Muslims fully appropriated as part of their own historical experiences and world-view. Put somewhat differently, I have been trying to understand the process by which a heritage common to both monotheistic faiths could and did become a bone of contention as well as a basis of mutual understandi…
"Doing" Early Islamic History: Brooklyn Baseball, Arabic Historiography, and Historical Memory
(Res.d'A.). Having been thrust into the post-modern age (a century a half after the birth of the American Oriental Society) how are scholars trained in oriental studies to do Islamic history? Put somewhat differently: given the highly tendentious nature of those sources that describe the formative centuries of Islam, what is the relationship between medieval literary texts and actual states of the past? In sum, what may safely expect to recover o…
Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam
Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate the processes of cultural transmission. The Bible presents the Queen of Sheba's encounter with King Solomon as a diplomatic mission: the qu…
Mediterranean Society, An Abridgment in One Volume
S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under Muslim rule, the Jews became increasingly urbanized and played a significant part in an expanding world economy. As major actors in the flourishing intellectual life of the period, they forged much of what constitut…
Islamic Studies and History (24 works) · History (23 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (20 works) · Ancient history (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Islam (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works)