Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (Cased Edition)

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 6Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari Carole Hillenbrand: An Appreciation 8Ali Ansari Carole Hillenbrand: Publications 10 The Fatimid Caliph al-Zafir: A Reassessment 14Kirsten Thomson Penning the Foundations: A Comparative Reading of Fatimid Origins Narratives with Abbasid and ʿIbadi Texts 24Shainool Jiwa Crucicentric Foundations for Tenth-Century Ismaʿili Caliphates 56W. Richard Oakes, Jr. Problematising the Islamic: Evidence for the Crusades. The Frankish Red Sea Raid of 1183 68Alex Mallett Al-Suyuti’s Taʾrikh al-Khulafaʾ: A History of Politics or Piety? 76Stephen R. Burge The Death of Dargazini 90Christian Lange Attribution of an Anonymous Qasida. Appended to the First Redaction of the Siyar al-Muluk: Stylometry Results 108Alexey Khismatulin Two Royal Almanacs from Late Fourteenth-Century Anatolia 122A.C.S. Peacock Mirza Saleh Shirazi’s History of England 140Ali Ansari Egypt’s 2011 Popular Uprising in Gramscian Perspective 160John Chalcraft The Islamic Manuscript Collection of A.S. Yahuda in Princeton University Library: A History of Acquisition 176Saeko Yazaki Author Biographies 190 Contributors to VOLUME IIJames AllanBarbara FinsterMarcus FraserAlain GeorgeDaniel GhoseMelanie GibsonMargaret S. GravesYuka KadoiLinda KomaroffLorenz KornElizabeth LambournRichard McClaryJulian Raby CONTENTS Foreword 6Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari Robert Hillenbrand: An Appreciation 8Melanie Gibson Robert Hillenbrand: Publications 10 A Builder of Mosques: The Projects of al-Walid I, from Sanaa to Homs 16Alain George Back to Tulul al-Ukhaydir 50Barbara Finster Twin Minarets in the Architecture of Iran 64Lorenz Korn Memorial for a Memorial: The Mashhad of Imam ʿAwn al-Din and the Destruction of Medieval Monuments in Mosul by ISIS 78Richard P. McClary David Talbot Rice and Persian Art History 92Yuka Kadoi Beyond the Beholder’s Share: Painting as Process 100Marga ret S. Graves Blurred Boundaries: Interactions Between Royal Ateliers and Commercial Workshops in the Persianate World 132Udayan Da niel Ghose Some New Uses of the Geniza: Mercantile Letter—On the Materiality of Writing in the Indian Ocean World 158Elizabeth La mbourn Beyond the Taklamakan: The Origins and Stylistic Development of Qurʾan Manuscripts in China 180Marcus Fraser Syrian Nilotics and the History of Silver Inlay in the Near East 200James Allan An Ayyubid-era Figural Ivory: A Sculptural Miniature 222Julian Raby ‘Healing for what is in the Breasts’: Ceramic Breastfeeding Figures from the Medieval Islamic World 240Melanie Gibson Chinese Porcelains from the Ardabil Shrine: Collecting and Display in Iran 268Linda Komaroff Author Biographies 286

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