Lawrence Conrad

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Lawrence Irvin Conrad (born 1949) is a British historian who studies the Near East and the history of medicine. He works as a historian at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, writing about The Plague in the Early Medieval Near East. After a brief period at the American University of Beirut, he joined the Wellcome Institute in 1985. In 2001 he moved to the University of Hamburg, retiring in 2008. Conrad is known for his work on medieval Near Eastern social history, Arabic and Islamic medicine, and the historiography of Arabic, Greek, and Syriac sources. He has authored, edited, and translated books.