Lawrence I. Conrad

Lawrence I. Conrad (* 1949 ) is a British scholar of Islam.

Life

Lawrence I. Conrad received his PhD from Princeton University in 1981 . He is the author of numerous studies on the history of the Middle East, Arabic and Islamic medicine, and Arabic, Greek and Syrian historiography. From 2001 to 2008 he taught as a professor (C4) for Islamic Studies - History and Culture of the Arab Region in Islamic Times at the University of Hamburg .

Fonts (selection)

• The plague in the early medieval Near East . University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor 1985, OCLC 613142272 (also dissertation, Princeton 1981).
• The World of Ibn Ṭufayl . Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān . Leiden / New York / Cologne (= Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies . Volume 24).
• The Western medical tradition. 800 BC to AD 1800 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-38135-5 .

Web links

• Lawrence I. Conrad in the Hamburg professors catalog