Burns, Robert I., 1921-2008

Burns was born Aug. 16, 1921 in San Francisco, CA; BA (1945) and MA (1947) Gonzaga Univ.; MA, History, Fordham Univ. (1949); Ph. D., Johns Hopkins Univ. (1958); entered the Society of Jesus (1940) and became a Roman Catholic priest (1952); instructor (1947-48), asst. professor (1958-63), assoc. professor (1963-66), and professor of history (1967-76) at Univ. of San Francisco; became senior professor of history (1976) and staff member for the Near Eastern Center and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1977), Univ. of CA, Los Angeles; author of many books on Islamic Spain and the medieval Mediterranean region, including Islam under the Crusaders : colonial survival in the thirteenth-century kingdom of Valencia (1974) and Moors and crusaders in Mediterranean Spain (1978).

From the description of Papers, 1960-1976. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38060727

Biography

Burns was born August 16, 1921 in San Francisco, California; BA and MA, Gonzaga University, 1945 and 1947; MA, History, Fordham University, 1949; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1958; entered the Society of Jesus (1940) and became a Roman Catholic priest in 1952; professor of history, UCLA, beginning in 1958; author of many books on Islamic Spain and the medieval Mediterranean region, including Islam under the Crusaders: colonial survival in the thirteenth-century kingdom of Valencia (1974) and Moors and crusaders in Mediterranean Spain (1978).

From the guide to the Robert Ignatius Burns papers, 1960-1976, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)