The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland is delighted to announce the award of the RAS Medal to Professors Robert and Carole Hillenbrand for their outstanding contributions to the study of Islamic Art and Islamic History respectively.
Featuring lectures by the recipients:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
Professor Carole Hillenbrand, D.Litt., F.B.A., F.R.S.E., F.R.Hist.S., was appointed Professor of Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh in 2000. She was awarded an O.B.E. in 2009 for services to Higher Education and a C.B.E. in 2018 for her contribution to inter-faith relations. She is currently Professor Emerita and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.
In 2005, she was awarded the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies, (the first non-Muslim to be awarded this prize) and in 2016 the British Academy/ Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding. Her research interests include the Crusades, the Seljuqs of Iran and Turkey, and medieval Muslim political thought, especially the work of al-Ghazali. She is the author of five books, has edited or co-edited a further four books and has published her collected articles in three volumes in 2021. Her book The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives published by Edinburgh University Press in 1999, was the first to examine in depth the Crusades from the Muslim point of view.
Professor Robert Hillenbrand is currently Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews and Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed Professor of Islamic Art there in 1989. He is a prolific scholar whose interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and early Islamic Syria. His twelve books include the prize-winning Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning (1994), Islamic Art and Architecture (revised and expanded ed. 2021); The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem (2002), The Holy Ark of Isfahan (2019), The Great Mongol Shahnama (2022) and four volumes of collected articles (2001-2019). In addition, he has co-authored, edited and co-edited fourteen books including The Art of the Saljuqs in Iran and Anatolia (1994), Persian Painting from the Mongols to the Qajars, (2001), Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings, (2004) and Image and Meaning in Islamic Art, (2005) and Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia (2013) and The Making of Islamic Art (2021). He has also published some 170 articles on aspects of Islamic art and architecture.
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