Paul M. Cobb
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago
pcobb@nd.edu

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Medieval Islamic history
· Jerusalem

Areas of Recent Research
· Social and cultural history of the medieval Middle East, especially the Levant
· Islamic perspectives on the Crusades

Honors and Awards
· Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-2007
· NEH and Fulbright Fellowships, 2002

Recent Publications
· Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades (Oxford: Oneworld, 2006)
· (with Wout van Bekkum) Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam(Leuven: Peeters, 2004)
"Virtual Sacrality: Making Muslim Syria Sacred before the Crusades," Medieval Encounters 8 (2002): 35-55.
· White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (State University of New York, 2001).
· "Al-Mutawakkil's Damascus: A New Abbasid Capital?"Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999): 241-57.

Departmental Page
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/cobb-paul/