Seminar
The Crusades: Past and Present
By
Professor Carole Hillenbrand OBE
[Carole Hillenbrand was educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh. She was appointed Professor of Islamic History in 2000 and served as Head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, from 1997-2002 and from 2006-2008. She was Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA in 1994 and 2005 and at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2002. In 2005 she was awarded the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies (first non-Muslim to be awarded this prize). Her research interests include the Seljuqs of Iran and Turkey, the Crusades, medieval Muslim political thought, especially the work of al-Ghazali. She has several publications to her credit including A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times: the Early Artuqid State, Leiden, 1990, 266pp. The Crusades, Islamic Perspectives, Edinburgh, 1999, 647pp. Turkish myth and Muslim symbol: the Battle of Manzikert, Edinburgh, 2007, 320 pp.]
On
Wednesday 13 October 2010
At
Markfield Institute of Higher Education
4.00 pm
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