Marc David Baer

Marc David Baer is Head of Department and Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An American and British historian, he is an expert on Muslim-Jewish relations and the Ottoman Empire. His latest book is Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations (Profile 2026). His previous book, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Basic 2021), was short-listed for the Wolfson Prize in History and translated into a dozen languages. His first book, Honoured by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe, won the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America as Best Book in Middle East Studies. His book, Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide, won the Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize. Professor Baer also wrote The Dönme and German, Jew, Muslim, Gay.