Ross Brann

Morris Escoll 1916 Director of Jewish Studies; Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

Publications

  • Moses Maimonides: A  Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025), 168 pp. [Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture]
  • Iberian Moorings: al-Andalus and Sefard and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) 240 pp.
  • Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 208 pp.
  • The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 228 pp. [recipient of the 1992 Maurice Amado Foundation National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies]
  • “Hebrew Linguistic Thought and Poetics,” The Cambridge History of Rhetoric: Volume II, The Middle Ages, ed. Jill Ross and Frederique Woerther (2026): 522-539.
  • “The Past, Present, and Future Prospect of Islamicate Studies,” in “Speculations,” the Centennial Issue of Speculum 101 (2026): 107- 113.
  • “Medieval Jewish Translingualism,” in The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism (2021), ed. Natasha Lvovitch and Steven G. Kellman, pp. 85-96
  • “Andalusi Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Poetic Tradition,” Routledge Companion to Arabic Poetry, ed. Huda Fakhreddine and Suzanne Stetkevych (London: Routledge, 2023), 108-130.
  • [Ed. with Adam Sutcliffe] Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From Al-Andalus to the Haskalah (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) 237 pp.
  • “Arabic Alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew Literature in Meta-Critical Perspective,” The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity and Diversity, ed. E Michael Gerli (Routledge, 2021), 363-374
  • "An Aramaic Writ from Ramla (1056): A Translation and Genizah Study" in Text, Tradition and the History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Lawrence Schiffman Festschrift), ed. Stuart Miller (Brill, 2020), 245-253.
  • “Jewish Perceptions of and Attitudes towards Muslims,” in Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 5 [Jews and Judaism in the Islamic World, Seventh through Fifteenth Centuries], ed. Philip Lieberman (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 64-91.
  • “Rule (’Amīnūkāl)”], Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 5 (2013): 106-110.
  • "Andalusi "Exceptionalism"," in A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, ed. Karla Mallette and Suzanne Akbari (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013) 119-134.
  • “The Moors?” Medieval Encounters 15 (2009): 307-318.
  • “He Said, She Said: Re-inscribing the Andalusi Arabic Love Lyric,” in Raymond P. Scheindlin Festschrift, ed. M. Rand and J. Decter (Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007), 7-15.

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Departments and programs

  • Near Eastern Studies
  • Jewish Studies Program
  • Medieval Studies Program
  • Religious Studies Program
  • Romance Studies

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