Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (Cloth Cased Edition) – Essays in Honour of Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand: 2 (Gingko Art Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909942618 ISBN 13: 9781909942615

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

Melanie Gibson is editor of the Gingko Art Series. Ali M. Ansari, FRSE, FBIPS, FRAS is professor of Iranian history and founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews and a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gingko Library
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909942618
• ISBN 13: 9781909942615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 580
• Editor: Gibson Melanie, Ansari Ali