Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (Vol II)

Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (Vol II)

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Collected essays honoring the work of British professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand. Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are legendary British professors, both of whom have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history, and they are highly respected and beloved by the academic community. For these two volumes, editors Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari have gathered an eclectic mix of scholarly contributions by colleagues and by some of their most recent students who now occupy positions in universities worldwide. The eleven articles in the volume dedicated to Carole Hillenbrand include research on a range of topics, including the elusive Fatimid caliph al-Zafir, a crusader raid on Mecca, and the Persian bureaucrat Mirza Saleh Shirazi’s history of England. In Robert Hillenbrand's volume, the thirteen articles include studies of a rare eighth-century metal dish with Nilotic scenes, Chinese Qur’ans, the process of image-making in both theory and practice, and a shrine in Mosul destroyed by ISIS. Melanie Gibson is editor of the Gingko Art Series and was formerly head of art history at New College of the Humanities, London. Ali M. Ansari, FRSE, FBIPS, FRAS is professor of Iranian history and founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews and a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

CONTENTS
Foreword 6
Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari
Robert Hillenbrand: An Appreciation 8
Melanie Gibson
Robert Hillenbrand: Publications 10
A Builder of Mosques: The Projects of al-Walid I, from Sanaa to Homs 16
Alain George
Back to Tulul al-Ukhaydir 50
Barbara Finster
Twin Minarets in the Architecture of Iran 64
Lorenz Korn
Memorial for a Memorial: The Mashhad of Imam ?Awn al-Din and the Destruction of Medieval Monuments in Mosul by ISIS 78
Richard P. McClary
David Talbot Rice and Persian Art History 92
Yuka Kadoi
Beyond the Beholder’s Share: Painting as Process 100
Marga ret S. Graves
Blurred Boundaries: Interactions Between Royal Ateliers and Commercial Workshops in the Persianate World 132
Udayan Da niel Ghose
Some New Uses of the Geniza: Mercantile Letter—On the Materiality of Writing in the Indian Ocean World 158
Elizabeth La mbourn
Beyond the Taklamakan: The Origins and Stylistic Development of Qur?an Manuscripts in China 180
Marcus Fraser
Syrian Nilotics and the History of Silver Inlay in the Near East 200
James Allan
An Ayyubid-era Figural Ivory: A Sculptural Miniature 222
Julian Raby
‘Healing for what is in the Breasts’: Ceramic Breastfeeding Figures from the Medieval Islamic World 240
Melanie Gibson
Chinese Porcelains from the Ardabil Shrine: Collecting and Display in Iran 268
Linda Komaroff
Author Biographies 286
"In its thematic breadth, intellectual depth, and innovative thinking Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning is indeed a befitting academic tribute to honour one of the giants in the field of Islamic art today. At the same time, it speaks of Robert’s outstanding calibre as a teacher and mentor, fostering the next generation of scholarly thought leaders at the top of their game."
"This beautifully produced volume ranges in time from early Islam to early modernity, in geography from Anatolia to China, and in medium from architecture to the portable arts, painting and paper. The extraordinary range of the contributors' essays offers a fitting tribute to the inspiring and pioneering scholarship of a towering figure in the history of Islamic art and architecture."
"Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning contains a series of essays as engaging and diverse in their interests and subject matters as the man they celebrate. As many of the contributors are Robert Hillenbrand’s former students, they also testify to his abilities as a learned and inspiring teacher."

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