Full Description
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.
Contents
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
