Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (Vol I): Essays in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (Art) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909942596 ISBN 13: 9781909942592

Publisher: Gingko Library, 2022

Synopsis

Collected essays honoring the work of British professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.

Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are legendary British professors, both of whom have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history, and they are highly respected and beloved by the academic community. For these two volumes, editors Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari have gathered an eclectic mix of scholarly contributions by colleagues and by some of their most recent students who now occupy positions in universities worldwide. The eleven articles in the volume dedicated to Carole Hillenbrand include research on a range of topics, including the elusive Fatimid caliph al-Zafir, a crusader raid on Mecca, and the Persian bureaucrat Mirza Saleh Shirazi's history of England. In Robert Hillenbrand's volume, the thirteen articles include studies of a rare eighth-century metal dish with Nilotic scenes, Chinese Qur'ans, the process of image-making in both theory and practice, and a shrine in Mosul destroyed by ISIS.

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About the Author

Ali Ansari is Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews. Carole Hillenbrand/b> is a Fellow of of the British Academy, Emerita Professor in Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Contributors to the volume: Ali Ansari, Stephen R. Burge, John Chalcraft, Shainool Jiwa, Alexey Khismatulin, Christian Lange, Alex Mallett W. Richard Oakes, Jr., Andrew C.S. Peacock, Kirsten Thomson, Saeko Yazaki.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gingko Library
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909942596
• ISBN 13: 9781909942592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Ansari Ali M