Paul M. Cobb

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Paul M. Cobb (born 1967 in Amherst, Massachusetts ) is an American medieval historian and orientalist .

Life

Paul M. Cobb studied Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oriental Studies of the Middle East at the University of Chicago , where he received his PhD in 1997. He also studied at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo . He has taught at Smith College , Wake Forest University, and the University of Notre Dame . Cobb has been Professor of Islamic History at the University of Pennsylvania since 2008 . Cobb has received various grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship .

In 2014, Cobb presented a history of the crusades that offered a change of perspective for European-American historiography.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades Oxford University press, 2014
    • The Struggle for Paradise: An Islamic Story of the Crusades . From the English Michael Sailer. Darmstadt: von Zabern, 2015
  • The Lineaments of Islam: Studies in Honor of Fred McGraw Donner . Suffer ; Boston: Brill, 2012
  • with Antoine Borrut: Umayyad Legacies: Medieval memories from Syria to Spain . Suffer ; Boston: Brill, 2010
  • Foreword to Hannes Möhring : Saladin: the Sultan and his times, 1138 - 1193 . Baltimore, Md .: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008
  • (Ed. And translator): Usāmaẗ ibn Munqid : The book of contemplation: Islam and the Crusades . London; New York: Penguin, 2008.
  • Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades . Oxford: Oneworld, 2006
  • with Wout van Bekkum: Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam . Leuven: Peeters; Hadleigh: BRAD, 2005
  • White Banners: contention in ʻAbbāsid Syria, 750-880 . Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul M. Cobb , at University of Pennsylvania
  2. ↑ Hannes Stein : When all God's warriors came from Europe , in: Die Literäre Welt , July 11, 2015, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Cobb, Paul M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medieval historian and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Amherst, Massachusetts