Ross Brann is an American religious historian, currently the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University.
Published works
- The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
- Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain (Princeton University Press, 2002).
- Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
- Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Awards
- 1992: National Jewish Book Award in the Sephardic Studies category for The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain
Further reading
- "Review: The Compunctious Hebrew Poet" (Indiana University Press, May 1992)
References