Ross BrannRoss Brann is Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. Brann is the author or editor of books and essays on the intersection of Jewish and Islamic culture, including The Compnctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain, Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Eleventh- and Twelfth Century Islamic Spain, and Iberian Moorings: al-Andalus and Sefarad and the Tropes of Exceptionalism. Read More Read Less