Jere L. Bacharach is a Professor Emeritus of Early Islamic, Medieval, and Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire at University of Washington. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University He is the Golub Professor Emeritus of International Studies, President, Middle East Studies Association, President, Middle East Medievalists, Past-President of Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, and the Interim Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. Middle East Studies Association of North America (often referred to as MESA) is according to its website "a non-political association that fosters the study of the
Bacharach was president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 2000. Middle East Studies Association of North America (often referred to as MESA) is according to its website "a non-political association that fosters the study of the
Jere L. Bacharach is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Born in New York in 1938, Bacharach attended Trinity College, CN [B. Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford Connecticut. A. , 1960], Harvard University [M. A. , 1962], and the University of Michigan [Ph. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research D. , 1967]. He has been a member of the U. W. faculty since 1967 having officially retired in 2004 although he last taught in the fall term, 2007. While a member of the University of Washington faculty, Bacharach served as Chair, Department of History; Director, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; and Interim Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. He has also been President, Middle East Studies Association, President, Middle East Medievalists [twice], and President, Association for Professional Schools of International Affairs. He has served in Cairo as Interim Director, American Research Center in Egypt and has held numerous other positions in various professional organizations.
His publications have ranged from the architecture of power in the Islamic world to the use of African slaves in military Muslim armies. His primary work has been in the field of Islamic numismatics where he has published numerous articles on fifteenth century Circassian monetary developments and tenth century Ikhshidid coinage. Numismatics (numisma nomisma "coin" from the νομίζειν nomízein, "to use according to law" is the study or collection of Currency The Ikhshidid dynasty of Egypt (sometimes Transliterated other ways ruled from 935 to 969. The latter appeared as “Islamic History through Coins” [Cairo: AUC Press, 2006], which was the co-winner of the 2007 Samir Shamma Prize of the Royal Numismatic Society of Great Britain for the best book in Islamic numismatics during the preceding two years. Bacharach has twice been a Samir Shamma Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and at St. Cross College, Oxford University.