Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning: Essays in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand - Couverture rigide

 
9781909942608: Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning: Essays in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand

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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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Hillenbrand is a Fellow of of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor in Islamic Art History at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Melanie Gibson is Senior Editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Her publications focus on sculpture, ceramics and glass produced around the Islamic world. Contributors:James Allan, Barbara Finster Marcus Fraser, Alain George, Daniel Ghose, Melanie Gibson, Margaret S. Graves, Yuka Kadoi Linda Komaroff, Lorenz Korn , Elizabeth Lambourn Richard McClary, Julian Raby.

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