Martin Kramer is a historian and analyst of the Middle East and Israel. This website is home to his weblog Sandbox and a large selection of his published work.

Martin Kramer on the Middle East is a website featuring the work of Middle East analyst and historian Martin Kramer. The site includes a weblog entitled Sandbox.

Martin Kramer, "Introduction," in The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis, ed. Martin Kramer (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999), pp. 1-48.

Dec 7, 2024 · Martin Kramer I am a historian of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University, and research it at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Read more... Latest Sandbox. Syria in the Fertile Crescent; Aida in Old Tel Aviv; The bindings of Isaac: Goldziher’s library in Jerusalem; Endless expertise; Subscribe to Sandbox

In The War on Error, Martin Kramer, an eminent scholar of Middle Eastern affairs, fearlessly and eloquently exposes the myths, half-truths, and outright lies that pervade the public discussion, and so inhibit public understanding, of the region he knows so well.

Martin Kramer, "Bernard Lewis," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 719-20. Lewis, Bernard 1916-US (British-born) historian of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the modern Middle East Over a 60-year career, Bernard Lewis emerged as the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the ...

Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses, is Martin Kramer’s study of the early pan-Islamic congresses. The book originated as Kramer’s 1981 doctoral dissertation in Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Martin Kramer I am a historian of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University, and research it at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Read more... Latest Sandbox. Syria in the Fertile Crescent; Aida in Old Tel Aviv; The bindings of Isaac: Goldziher’s library in Jerusalem; Endless expertise; Subscribe to Sandbox

The facade (northern side) of the Dahmash Mosque today. Photograph by Martin Kramer.

Martin Kramer, “The Road from Mecca: Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss),” in The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis, ed. Martin Kramer (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999), pp. 225-47.