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Jonathan Brack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University. During the spring of 2026, he will be a Humboldt fellow at LMU. Brack is a historian of medieval Iran and the Mongol Empire. His research focuses on religious and scientific exchanges, conversion, and comparative empires. His first book is An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia (University of California Press, 2023).
His new book project is titled "Ever Closer Encounters: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Mongols’ Middle East." Ever Closer Encounters investigates the intricate interplay between Muslims, Jews, and Christians, exploring how Mongol domination impacted both patterns of religious and communal distinction, and intellectual cross-fertilization and social embeddedness between religious communities in the eastern Islamic world under Mongol domination.
He coedited the volume Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals (University of California Press, 2020), and a special issue in the journal Mamlūk Studies Review (Mamluks and Mongols: Studies in Honor of Reuven Amitai, 2024).
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