Working to improve mutual understanding between the Middle East and the West
Working to improve mutual understanding between the Middle East and the West
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Essays in Honour of Carole and Robert Hillenbrand
edited by Ali M. Ansari and Melanie Gibson
Format: Hardback (197x264mm), Two volumes in a limited splip-case edition
Published: April 2022
Pages: 192 + 276
ISBN: 9781909942615
A limited cased edition is published to celebrate the spectacular careers of two of the most eminent British scholars in the field of Middle Eastern Art, History and Culture.
Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are acclaimed academics who have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history. The respect and affection of the academic community towards them is legendary. For these two volumes, editors Ali Ansari and Melanie Gibson have gathered a wide-ranging selection of scholarly essays by some of their longstanding colleagues as well as by recent students who now occupy academic positions across the world.
The volume dedicated to Carole Hillenbrand includes eleven articles on subjects which include the elusive Fatimid caliph al-Zafr, a Crusader raid on Mecca, and the Persian bureaucrat Mirza Saleh Shirazi’s History of England.
The volume dedicated to Robert Hillenbrand includes thirteen articles on subjects which include studies on a rare 8th-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.
Carole Hillenbrand 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.
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.
Ali Ansari is Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies 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.
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Contributors to VOLUME I
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
CONTENTS
Foreword 6
Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari
Carole Hillenbrand: An Appreciation 8
Ali Ansari
Carole Hillenbrand: Publications 10
The Fatimid Caliph al-Zafir: A Reassessment 14
Kirsten Thomson
Penning the Foundations: A Comparative Reading of Fatimid Origins Narratives with Abbasid and ʿIbadi Texts 24
Shainool Jiwa
Crucicentric Foundations for Tenth-Century Ismaʿili Caliphates 56
W. Richard Oakes, Jr.
Problematising the Islamic: Evidence for the Crusades. The Frankish Red Sea Raid of 1183 68
Alex Mallett
Al-Suyuti’s Taʾrikh al-Khulafaʾ: A History of Politics or Piety? 76
Stephen R. Burge
The Death of Dargazini 90
Christian Lange
Attribution of an Anonymous Qasida. Appended to the First Redaction of the Siyar al-Muluk: Stylometry Results 108
Alexey Khismatulin
Two Royal Almanacs from Late Fourteenth-Century Anatolia 122
A.C.S. Peacock
Mirza Saleh Shirazi’s History of England 140
Ali Ansari
Egypt’s 2011 Popular Uprising in Gramscian Perspective 160
John Chalcraft
The Islamic Manuscript Collection of A.S. Yahuda in Princeton University Library: A History of Acquisition 176
Saeko Yazaki
Author Biographies 190
Contributors to VOLUME II
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
CONTENTS
Foreword 6
Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari
Robert Hillenbrand: An Appreciation 8
Melanie Gibson
Robert Hillenbrand: Publications 10
A Builder of Mosques: The Projects of al-Walid I, from Sanaa to Homs 16
Alain George
Back to Tulul al-Ukhaydir 50
Barbara Finster
Twin Minarets in the Architecture of Iran 64
Lorenz Korn
Memorial for a Memorial: The Mashhad of Imam ʿAwn al-Din and the Destruction of Medieval Monuments in Mosul by ISIS 78
Richard P. McClary
David Talbot Rice and Persian Art History 92
Yuka Kadoi
Beyond the Beholder’s Share: Painting as Process 100
Marga ret S. Graves
Blurred Boundaries: Interactions Between Royal Ateliers and Commercial Workshops in the Persianate World 132
Udayan Da niel Ghose
Some New Uses of the Geniza: Mercantile Letter—On the Materiality of Writing in the Indian Ocean World 158
Elizabeth La mbourn
Beyond the Taklamakan: The Origins and Stylistic Development of Qurʾan Manuscripts in China 180
Marcus Fraser
Syrian Nilotics and the History of Silver Inlay in the Near East 200
James Allan
An Ayyubid-era Figural Ivory: A Sculptural Miniature 222
Julian Raby
‘Healing for what is in the Breasts’: Ceramic Breastfeeding Figures from the Medieval Islamic World 240
Melanie Gibson
Chinese Porcelains from the Ardabil Shrine: Collecting and Display in Iran 268
Linda Komaroff
Author Biographies 286
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