MARC DAVID BAER is a professor and the head of the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of six books, including The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson Prize; Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe, which won the Albert Hourani Prize; and Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish-Muslim Relations (Basic Books). He lives in London.
