Mark R. Cohen

{{short description|American historian}}

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Jewish Theological Seminary
Columbia University

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Mark R. Cohen (born March 11, 1943) is an American scholar of Jewish history in the Muslim world.

Cohen is Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.{{cite web |title=Mark Cohen |url=https://nes.princeton.edu/people/mark-cohen |website=Department of Near Eastern Studies |language=en}} He is a scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam.{{cite book| title =Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen| publisher = Brill| year = 2014 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dk6hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1| isbn = 9789004267848|quote=Cohen is one of the most important scholars of his generation in the study of the history of Jews in the Islamic world.}}{{cite book| last = Gilbert| first = Martin | title =In Ishmael's House| publisher = Yale University Press| year = 2010 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCL7A2_bsqUC&pg=PA23| isbn = 978-0300170801 }} His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza. From 1985 until his retirement in 2013, Cohen led the Princeton Geniza Lab, which aims to make the Cairo Geniza's corpus available and searchable online. As of 2023, the database contains 400,000 documents.{{cite web |title=FAQ |url=https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/about/faq/ |website=Princeton Geniza Project |language=en}} The project was headquartered at the Shelomo Dov Goitein Geniza Research Lab, where many of Goitein's books and notes are stored, but is now separate.