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'''Robert G. Hoyland''' is a scholar and historian of the the [[Middle East]] . He is the author of a number of very importants works which document the medieval history of the [[Middle East]]. He is a former student of historian [[Patricia Crone]] and is a Leverhulme [[Fellow]] at [[Pembroke College]], [[Oxford]] [[England]].
'''Robert G. Hoyland''' is a scholar and historian of the the [[Middle East]] . He is the author of a number of very importants works which document the medieval history of the [[Middle East]]. He is a former student of historian [[Patricia Crone]] and is a Leverhulme [[Fellow]] at [[Pembroke College]], [[Oxford]] [[England]].


Hoyland 's renowned work ''Seeing Islam As Others Saw It'' is a momentous reference in early Islamic [[historiography]] as it provides an exhaustive survey of non-Muslim eye witness accounts of that period, upholding traditional Muslim historiography.<ref>Michael G. Morony. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438%28199908%2931%3A3%3C452%3ASIAOSI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O International Journal of Middle East Studies], Vol. 31, No. 3. (Aug., 1999), pp. 452-453.</ref>
Hoyland 's renowned work ''Seeing Islam As Others Saw It'' is a momentous reference in early Islamic [[historiography]] as it provides an exhaustive survey of non-Muslim eye witness accounts of that period.


==Works by Robert G. Hoyland ==
==Works by Robert G. Hoyland ==
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*Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking: Kindi's Treatise on Swords and Their Kinds
*Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking: Kindi's Treatise on Swords and Their Kinds
*[[Seeing Islam As Others Saw It|Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)]]
*[[Seeing Islam As Others Saw It|Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)]]

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Revision as of 23:07, 7 August 2006

Robert G. Hoyland is a scholar and historian of the the Middle East . He is the author of a number of very importants works which document the medieval history of the Middle East. He is a former student of historian Patricia Crone and is a Leverhulme Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford England.

Hoyland 's renowned work Seeing Islam As Others Saw It is a momentous reference in early Islamic historiography as it provides an exhaustive survey of non-Muslim eye witness accounts of that period.

Works by Robert G. Hoyland