We welcome Professor Arnold Franklin to the Medieval Studies Certificate Program faculty. Professor Franklin is an associate professor in the History department at Queens College, CUNY, where he also serves as director of the Jewish Studies Program and director of the Center for Jewish Studies.

His research explores the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in Arabic-speaking lands during the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the modes, mechanisms, and dynamics of cross-cultural exchange. In addition to scholarly articles, he is the author of This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East (UPenn, 2013), editor of Encountering Christianity and Islam, 600–1200, Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Civilization (Yale University Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Brill, 2015).

His current research projects include an edition, translation, and analysis of a fourteenth-century rationalist commentary on the Jewish liturgy in Judeo-Arabic and a study of letter-writing in medieval Egypt.

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