Please join us for a lecture by Dr. David J. Wasserstein, Eugene Greener Jr. Professor of Jewish History at Vanderbilt University, titled “How Islam Saved the Jews.” The event is cosponsored by the Department of History and the Birmingham Islamic Society.

Wasserstein studies medieval Islamic and Jewish history. With a background in classical studies, he is also interested in the classical tradition in Islam, and in particular in the ways in which Judaism, Islam, and the classical world intersect culturally, linguistically, and politically. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles.

He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, as well as The Rise and Fall of the Party-Kings, Politics and Society in Islamic Spain, 1002-1086 (1985); The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula (1993); and The Legend of the Septuagint, From Classical Antiquity to Today (with A. Wasserstein, 2006).

The lecture takes place April 24, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. in UAB's Volker Hall, Lecture Room A (1670 University Boulevard). For more information call the UAB Department of History at 205-934-5634 or e-mail CAShistory@uab.edu. Lecture is free and open to the public.