Chase F. Robinson

Chase F. Robinson is a historian of Islam and distinguished professor and president of The Graduate Center at City University of New York. On August 21, 2018, the Smithsonian Institution announced he would be the next Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art. 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] Fluent in French, he spent his junior year of high school at School Year Abroad's France campus. 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. 1 2 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.
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