Classical Islam

Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her ‘revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades’. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).

• PrefaceIslamic orthodoxy or Realpolitik?: al-Ghazali’s views on governmentAl-MustandjidAl-MustansirAl-MustarshidAl-MustazhirSome Aspects of al-Ghazali’s Views on BeautyNew Introduction to Nasir al-Din Shah, The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia during his tour through Europe in A.D. 1873A little-known Mirror for Princes of al-GhazaliMuhammad and the rise of IslamSources in ArabicSome medieval Muslim views of ConstantinopleWater in classical Islamic cultureSayf al-Dawla, al-Mutanabbi and Byzantium: The Evidence of a TextileThe Kimiya-yi sa‘adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) of al-Ghazali: a misunderstood work?A Neglected Source on the Life of Hasan-i Sabbah, the Founder of the Nizari ‘Assassin’ SectThe Impact of a Sixteenth-Century Jihad Treatise on Colonial and Modern IndiaAncient Iranian Kings in the World History of Rashid al-DinAl-Ghazali: In Praise of SufismLife in pre-Mongol Marw according to the medieval Muslim geographersBernard Lewis: 31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018‘Seek ye knowledge, even unto China’: the literature of travel in the lands of IslamOriginal sources and page numbers of the items in this volume Index