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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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- Contents
- Foreword | Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari
- Robert Hillenbrand: An Appreciation | Melanie Gibson
- Robert Hillenbrand: Publications
- A Builder of Mosques: The Projects of al-Walid I, from Sanaa to Homs | Alain George
- Back to Tulul al-Ukhaydir | Barbara Finster
- Twin Minarets in the Architecture of Iran | Lorenz Korn
- Memorial for a Memorial: The Mashhad of Imam ĘżAwn al-Din and the Destruction of Medieval Monuments in Mosul by ISIS | Richard P. McClary
- David Talbot Rice and Persian Art History | Yuka Kadoi
- Beyond the Beholderâs Share: Painting as Process | Margaret S. Graves
- Blurred Boundaries: Interactions Between Royal Ateliers and Commercial Workshops in the Persianate World | Udayan Daniel Ghose
- Some New Uses of the Geniza Mercantile LetterâOn the Materiality of Writing in the Indian Ocean World | Elizabeth Lambourn
- Beyond the Taklamakan: The Origins and Stylistic Development of QurĘžan Manuscripts in China | Marcus Fraser
- Syrian Nilotics and the History of Silver Inlay in the Near East | James Allan
- An Ayyubid-era Figural Ivory: A Sculptural Miniature | Julian Raby
- âHealing for what is in the Breastsâ: Ceramic Breastfeeding Figures from the Medieval Islamic World | Melanie Gibson
- Chinese Porcelains from the Ardabil Shrine: Collecting and Display in Iran | Linda Komaroff
- Author Biographies