Ross Brann

Ross Brann is an American religion historian, currently the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University.

Ross Brann
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley New York University Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Academic work
Discipline	religious history
Institutions	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)