Carole Hillenbrand

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Carole Hillenbrand (* 1943 in Southery, Norfolk , England as Carole Jordan ) is a British historian and Islamic scholar . She was a professor of Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh .

Hillenbrand studied in Cambridge , Oxford and Edinburgh. In 2000 she became Professor of Islamic History in Edinburgh, where she has taught since 1979. She headed the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department from 1997 to 2002 and 2006 to 2008. In 2008 she retired in Edinburgh .

In 1994 and 2005 she was visiting professor at Dartmouth College , in 2002 at the University of Groningen and in 2011 and 2013 at the University of St. Louis.

She dealt with the Crusades from an Islamic point of view, the Seljuks in Iran and Turkey, the Battle of Manzikert , political thinking in Islam in the Middle Ages (and especially al-Ghazālī ), the concept of jihad in the Middle Ages and modern times, and Arab and Persian Travel literature.

In 2005 she was the first and so far only person not belonging to Islam to receive the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies. In 2009 she was awarded the OBE and in 2018 the CBE. In 2015 she received the British Society for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Award. She was awarded the 2016 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding the British Academy for her book Islam: A New Introduction Historical awarded.

She was on the editorial board of the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies , has been an advisory editor on Islamic Studies at Edinburgh University Press since 1983, and editor of Routledge's Studies in Persian and Turkish History series since 1999 . She is the Vice President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

Fonts

  • The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1989
  • A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times: the Early Artuqid State, Leiden, The Netherlands Historical and Archaeological Institute for the Near East in Istanbul, Leiden, 1990
  • The Crusades, Islamic Perspectives, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1999
  • Turkish myth and Muslim symbol: the Battle of Manzikert, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007
  • The Seventh Crusade, 1244–1254: Sources and Documents, Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 21, 2010, No. 2
  • Islam: A New Historical Introduction. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015 (the book received the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Index entry . In: FreeBMD . ONS. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 58929, HMSO, London, December 31, 2008, p. 10 ( PDF , English).
  3. ↑ 2016 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding awarded to Professor Carole Hillenbrand . November 1, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hillenbrand, Carole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Carole (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Southery, Norfolk , England