About Your Professor — F.E.Peters
F.E. Peters is Professor of History, Religion and Middle Eastern
Studies at New York University. A native of NEW YORK CITY, he was
trained at St. Louis University in Classical Languages (AB, MA) and in
Philosophy (Ph.L.), and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in Islamic
Studies. His professional interests have since broadened into the com-
parative study of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and of Muslim Spain. In
addition to his regular teaching duties at NYU (where he has won a
number of teaching awards), Peters has been featured on CBS’
Sunrise Semester.He has published an autobiography (Ours)and a
novel, but his energies have been mostly devoted to academics, with
works on Greek philosophy, on the history of Late Antiquity and of
Islam, on both Jerusalem and Mecca, on the Muslim pilgrimage, and
particularly on the three monotheistic religious communities, The
Children of Abraham and Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The
Classical Texts and Their Interpretation. His most recent books are
Islam, A Guide for Jews and Christians (Princeton University Press),
and a major two volume work, The Monotheists: Jews, Christians and
Muslims in Conflict and Competition(Princeton University Press).
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