Glen W. Bowersock

Inevitably the Qur’an is rooted in its time, just as the brutal parts of the Hebrew Bible are. Even so, much of what the Qur’an proclaims is more benevolent and less barbarous than many of the fundamentalist doctrines that emerged in later centuries...

We are a nation shaped by immigrants, as the Statue of Liberty reminds us, but now, horrifyingly, immigrants are increasingly subjected to prejudice for both their ethnic identity and their religion. Older and equally repellent anti-Semitism and...

Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has authored The Crucible of Islam (Harvard University Press, 2017), which seeks to illuminate the most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islam—from the mid...

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., has published The Lod Mosaic: A Spectacular Roman Mosaic Floor (2015), edited by Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, Gideon Avni, Amir Gorzalczany, Joshua Schwartz, and Rina Talgam...

Oxford University Press has published The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (2013), by Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century A.D., southern...

In Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity (Brandeis University Press, 2012), Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, examines political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam...

In these turbulent times in the Middle East, I have found myself working on the rise and fall of a late antique Jewish kingdom along the Red Sea in the Arabian peninsula. Friends and colleagues alike have reacted with amazement and disbelief when I...

In this presentation, Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, discusses the emergence and interrelated fates of Rome, Constantinople, and Moscow. Rome became the capital of a great Mediterranean empire, which tried...