Lawrence Conrad
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Lawrence I. Conrad is a historian of Near Eastern Medicine, at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London
, UK
and a Lecturer at University College, London.
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University
. He is the author of numerous studies on medieval Near Eastern social history, Arabic and Islamic medicine
, and Arabic, Greek, and Syriac historiography.
He collaborated with Albrecht Noth on the second edition of The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (1994).
Some of his work is published in the book Quest for the Historical Muhammad
edited by Ibn Warraq
.
London
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, UK
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and a Lecturer at University College, London.
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He is the author of numerous studies on medieval Near Eastern social history, Arabic and Islamic medicine
Islamic medicine
In the history of medicine, Islamic medicine, Arabic medicine or Arabian medicine refers to medicine developed in the Islamic Golden Age, and written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization....
, and Arabic, Greek, and Syriac historiography.
He collaborated with Albrecht Noth on the second edition of The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (1994).
Some of his work is published in the book Quest for the Historical Muhammad
Quest for the Historical Muhammad
The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, edited by Ibn Warraq, is an anthology of 15 studies examining the origins of Islam and the Qur'an. The contributors argue that traditional Islamic accounts of its history and the origins of the Qur'an are fictitious and based on historical revisionism aimed at...
edited by Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq is the pen name of a polemical author of Pakistani origin who is critical of Islam, and who founded the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society . He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry focusing on Qur'anic criticism...
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