Chase F. Robinson

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Chase F. Robinson is a historian of Islam and distinguished professor and president of The Graduate Center at City University of New York. He was formerly a fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford from 1993 until 2008.[1] Robinson received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.[2] He is the editor of the first volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam.[3]

Selected publications

  • Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia. Cambridge, 2000.
  • Islamic Historiography. Cambridge, 2003.
  • A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra. Oxford, 2001.
  • Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards. Brill, Leiden, 2003.
  • Abd al-Malik. Oxford, 2005.
  • The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600-1300. Cambridge, 2009.
  • The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1, The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. (Editor)
  • Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years. University of California Press, 2016.[1] ISBN 9780520292987

References

  1. ^ a b Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives. University of California Press. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. ^ Chase F. Robinson. City University of New York. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  3. ^ The New Cambridge History of Islam. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2016.