# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ira-m-lapidus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:00:59.748Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/ira-m-lapidus"
name: "Ira M. Lapidus"
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description: "Ira M. Lapidus is an Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at The University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of A History of Islamic Societies, and Contemporary Islamic Movements in Historical Perspective, among other works."
tagline: "American historian (born 1937)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.011952
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump