Carole Hillenbrand

Gebundenes Buch

Classical Islam

Collected Papers

Beschreibung

This volume collects 21 papers on Classical Islam by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. The papers explore career of the Prophet Muhammad and the environment from which he sprang; the evolution of Islamic mysticism; political thought; and philosophical themes.

Autor

Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her 'revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades'. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 964g
• ISBN-13: 9781474485982
• ISBN-10: 1474485987
• Artikelnr.: 62215033