Isaac Hasson

Isaac Hasson is professor emeritus at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Arabic
Language and Literature. The principal focus of his scholarship has been on Jerusalem in Islam,
the transition from Jahiliyya to Islam, and contemporary Sunni-Shia relations. His publications
include: Fada’il al-Bayt al-Muqaddas of Abu Bakr al-Wasiti (1979); Le voyage de Sa’id ibn
Muhammad al-Suwaysi au Yaman 1890-1895 (2008) (in collaboration with A. Arazi); “Muslim
Literature in Praise of Jerusalem: Fada’il Bayt al-Maqdis,” The Jerusalem Cahedra, 1 (1981); “The
Muslim View of Jerusalem—The Qur’an and Hadith” in J. Prawer and H. Ben-Shammai (eds.),
The History of Jerusalem, The Early Muslim Period 638-1099, (1996); “Judham entre la Jahiliyya
et l’Islam,” Studia Islamica (1995); “La conversion de Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan,” JSAI (1998;
“Les Shiites vus par les Neo-Wahhabites,” Arabica (2006).