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3 unusual facts about Ira M. Lapidus


Brenda Webster

Her husband is Ira M. Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of A History of Islamic Societies.

Fatimid architecture

According to Ira M. Lapidus, public architecture under the Fatimids was an "extension of the ceremonial aspects of the royal court", and was also intricately made.

Ira M. Lapidus

As an undergraduate at Harvard, he took a course in Middle Eastern history taught by Sir Hamilton Gibb.



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