Ross Brann

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