Gary Leiser

Background

Gary Leiser was born on April 9, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the family of La Viere C. and Anne (Just) Leiser.

Education

In 1967 Gary received Certificate in Arabic at British Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies in Shemlan, Lebanon, and then B.A. and Certificate in Middle Eastern Studies at Portland State University. He got Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania in 1976.

Career

Gary worked as a visiting lec turer in Middle Eastern history at Cabrini College and University of Utah. He also was a consultant to Food Development Corp. and Brightstar, Inc. In 1980-1983 he was an staff interpreter and Middle East specialist at technical liaison office at U.S. Department of Defense, and Arabic linguist and analyst for Lebanon at Fort Meade. He also was appointed civilian historian in U.S. Air Force in Turkey and Travis Air Force Base.

Achievements

• Gary is famous for his works Papers and Discussions: Turkiye Is Bankasi International Symposium on Ataturk, A History of the Seljuks: Ibrahim Kafesoglu's Interpretation and the Resulting Controversy, and Seljuks of Anatolia.

Works

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  • A Brief History of Ankara

    (A very readable history of the city of Ankara, Turkey and...)

    2000
  • A history of Travis Air Force Base, 1943-1996 1996
  • Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World: Sex for Sale in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East (Library of Middle East History) 2017
  • The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources 1992
  • Vetluga Memoir: A Turkish Prisoner of War in Russia, 1916-1918 1995
  • A History of the Seljuks: Ibrahim Kafesoglu's Interpretation and the Resulting Controversy 1988
  • Questions and Answers for Physicians: A Medieval Arabic Study Manual by ʿabd Al-ʿazīz Al-Sulamī (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian) 2004
  • Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travelers' Tales, Sultans, and Scholars Since the Eighth Century (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey) 2017

Membership

• American Oriental Society

Connections

On June 20, 1970, Gary married a specialist in Islamic art Patricia Tarbell, and they have two children: Evan and Todd.

Father:

La Viere C. Leiser

Mother:

Anne (Just) Leiser

child:

Evan

child:

Todd

Wife:

Patricia Tarbell