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Associate Professor James E. Lindsay |
Education:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Specializing in: Medieval Islamic History
Current Research Interests:
Fight in the Path of God: Ibn ‘Asakir of Damascus and His Contribution to the Jihad Campaign of Sultan Nur al-Din (co-authored with Suleiman A. Mourad). This project will result in a critical Arabic edition and English translation of Ibn ‘Asakir of Damascus’ twelfth-century work al-Arba‘in fi al-ijtihad fi iqamat al-jihad [The Forty Hadiths on the Obligation to Wage Jihad].
Courses to be taught in the next two years:
HIST115: Islamic World to 1500
HIST431: Ancient Israel
HIST432: Sacred History in the Bible and the Qur’an
HIST433: Muhammad and the Origins of Islam
HIST434: Crusades in the Near East
HIST436: Jihad and Reform in Islamic History
HIST492: Capstone Seminar
HIST532: Reading Seminar: Middle East
Major Publications:
- “Rescuing Syria from the Infidels: The Contribution of Ibn ‘Asakir of Damascus to the Jihad Campaign of Sultan Nur al-Din” (co-authored with Suleiman A. Mourad) Crusades 6 (2007): 37-55.
- Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
- Ibn ‘Asakir and Early Islamic History(editor). Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, no. 20. Princeton: Darwin Press, 2001.
- “The Fatimid Da‘wa in North Africa,” Graeco-Arabica 7-8 (1999-2000): 283-309.
- “Caliphal and Moral Exemplar? ‘Ali Ibn ‘Asakir's Portrait of Yazid b. Mu‘awiya,” Der Islam 74 (1997): 250-78.
- “‘Ali Ibn ‘Asakir as a Preserver of Qisas al-Anbiya’: The Case of David b. Jesse,” Studia Islamica 82 (1995): 45-82.
- “Damascene Scholars During the Fatimid Period: An Examination of ‘Ali Ibn ‘Asakir's Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq,” Al-Masaq: Studia Arabo Islamica Mediterranea 7 (1994): 35-75.
- “Prophetic Parallels in Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Shi‘i's Mission among the Kutama Berbers, 893-910,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (1992): 39-56.