ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Professor Robert Hillenbrand was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford; he has been teaching at the Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, since 1971 and was awarded a chair of Islamic Art in 1989.
His travels have taken him throughout the Islamic world. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton, UCLA, Bamberg and Dartmouth College and Groningen. He has written, co-written or edited many books on Islamic art and architecture He has also published over a hundred articles on aspects of Islamic art and architecture.
In 1977 he curated one of the largest exhibitions of Persian miniature painting ever held. His scholarly interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and to Umayyad Syria.
He has served on the editorial boards of Art History, Persica, Asaph, Bulletin of the Asia Institute and Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, and on the Councils of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, British Research in the Levant, and the British Institute of Persian Studies (Vice-President).
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