Michael Lecker (Hebrew: מייקל לקר; born 1951)[1] is an Israeli scholar who is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His work focuses on the social and political history of early Islam, with a particular emphasis on prosopography, and on the biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
[2][3] A member of the "Jerusalem School",[4] he was a student of Meir Jacob Kister.
His 1978 Master of Arts thesis (supervised by Yehoshua Blau), titled "Jewish Settlements in Babylonia during the Talmudic Period", traced Talmudic placenames that survived in the geographical literature.
[7] His 1983 doctoral thesis (supervised by Meir Jacob Kister), titled "On the Prophet Muhammad's Activity in Medina", analyzed the document that some scholars call the Constitution of Medina and several other topics relating to Muhammad's Medinan period (622-632 CE).