Professor Carole Hillenbrand Professor of Islamic History
Publications Books
The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1989, 273pp.
A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times: the Early Artuqid State, Leiden, The Netherlands Historical and Archaeological Institute for the Near East in Istanbul, Leiden, 1990, 266pp.
The Crusades, Islamic Perspectives, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1999, 647pp.
Turkish myth and Muslim symbol: the Battle of Manzikert, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007, 320 pp.
Introduction to Islam. Beliefs and Practices in Historical Perspective, Thames and Hudson, New York and London, January 2015.
Published by Thames and Hudson in the UK under a different title:
Islam: a historical introduction. Translations
The Crusades: Islamic perspectives, Russian translation, St Petersburg, 2008. The Crusades: Islamic perspectives, Indonesian translation, Jakarta, 2007.
Turkish translation of my book, The Crusades : Islamic perspectives, under the title Müslümanların Gözünden Haçlı Seferleri, trans. Nurettin Elhüseyni, Alfa Tarihi, Istanbul, January 2015.
Turkish translation of my book , Turkish myth and Muslim symbol; the Battle of Manzikert, under the title Malazgirt Müharebesi, Alfa Tarihi, Istanbul, April 2015.
E-book
Turkish myth and Muslim symbol: the Battle of Manzikert, Edinburgh, electronic edition, 2012, http://edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/
Edited Books
Qajar Iran: Political, Social and Cultural Change, 1800-1925, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1984, 414pp. Co-edited with C. Edmund Bosworth.
The Sultan's Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture in honour of Professor Edmund Bosworth, Brill, Leiden, 1999, 544pp.
Articles and Book Chapters
The career of Najm al-Din Il-Ghazi', Der Islam 58/2 (1981), 250-291.
"Some mediaeval Islamic approaches to source material", Oriens 27-8 (1981), 197-225.
"The establishment of Artuqid power in Diyar Bakr in the twelfth century", Studia Islamica LIV (1981), 129-153.
"The Islamic world and the Crusades", Scottish Journal of Religious Studies VIII (1987), 150-157. "Islamic orthodoxy or Realpolitik?: al-Ghazali’s views on government", Iran XXVI (1988), 81-94.
"Medieval Islamic geography: the case of Merv", Proceedings of the International Conference on Science in Islamic Polity (sic) II, Islamabad, 1983, 338-341.
"The history of the Jazira: a short introduction", in The Art of Syria and the Jazira, 1100-1250, ed. J. Raby, Oxford University Press, 1985, 9-19.
"A Muslim success in the Second Crusade", in Mélanges Dominique Sourdel, ed. L. Kalus, Geutner, Paris, 1989, 165-171.
"Aspects of jihad propaganda: the evidence of 12th century inscriptions", Proceedings of the Conference on the History of the Crusades, University of Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit, 1993, 53-63.
"Mu’in al-Din Parwana: the servant of two masters?", Miscellanea Arabica et Islamica, ed. F. de Jong, Peeters, Louvin, 1993, 267-275.
"Al-Ghazali on beauty", Festschrift Professor Annemarie Schimmel, ed. J.C. Bürgel, Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, 1994, 249-265.
"Ibn al-‘Adim’s biography of the Seljuq sultan, Alp Arslan", Actas XVI Congreso Union Européene des Arabisants et Islamisants, Salamanca, 1995, 237-242.
"1092: a murderous year", Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Union Européene des Arabisants et Islamisants, Budapest, 1995, 281-296.
"The power struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma’ilis of Alamut, 497-518/1094-1124: the Saljuq perspective", in Studies in Isma’ili History, ed. F. Daftary, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 205-220.
The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, tr. J.M. Redhouse, Mazda Press, Costa Mesa, 1995, new introduction, v-xvi.
"The First Crusade: the Muslim perspective", in The Origins and Impact of the First Crusade, ed. J. Phillips, Manchester University Press, 1997, 130-141.
"Some reflections on Seljuq historiography", in Eastern Approaches to Byzantium, ed. A.Eastmond, Aldershot, 2000, 73-88.
"'Abominable acts': the career of Zengi" in The Second Crusade, ed. J.Phillips and M. Hoch, Manchester, 2001, 111-32.
"Women in the Seljuq Period" in Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, ed. G.Nashat and L. Beck, Illinois, 2003, 103-20.
"Some Reflections on the Imprisonment of Reynald of Chatillon" in Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards, ed. C.F. Robinson, Leiden, 2003, 79-102.
"Some thoughts on the use of the Qur’an in monumental inscriptions in Syria and Palestine in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries" in Islamic Reflections, Arabic musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones, ed. R. Hoyland and P.F. Kennedy, Gibb Memorial Trust, Warminster, 2004, 277– 87.
"The legacy of the Crusades" in Crusades: The Illustrated History, ed. T. Madden, London, 2004, 202- 11.
"A little-known Mirror for Princes of al-Ghazali" in Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea, ed. R. Arnzen and J. Thielmann, Leuven, 2004, 593-601.
"Ankunft im Vorderen Orient: Die politische und religiöse Situation", in Die Kreuzfahrer, ed. A. Wieczorek, M. Fansa and H. Meller, Mannheim, 2005, 3-15.
"Ravandi, the Seljuq court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian Cities" in Mesogeios (Mediterranean Studies), 25-6 (2005) , 157-69.
"Muhammad and the rise of Islam", The New Cambridge Medieval History, I, ed. P. Fouracre, Cambridge, 2005, 317-46.
"The evolution of the Saladin legend in the West" in Mélanges Louis Pouzet, Beirut, 2006, 1-13.
“The Arabic sources” in The prosopography of the Byzantine empire, 1024-1204, ed. M. Whitby, The British Academy, London, 2007, 283-340.
“Some medieval Muslim views of Constantinople” in World Christianity in Muslim Encounter, II, ed. S.R. Goodwin, Continuum, London and New York, 2009, 71-83.
“Ayyubid Jerusalem – an overview” in Ayyubid Jerusalem. ed. R. Hillenbrand and S. Auld, Al-Tajir Trust, London, 2009, 1-21. (20, 000 words)
“Water in classical Islamic culture” in Gardens beneath which rivers flow, ed. S. Blair and J. Bloom, Yale University Press, Newhaven, 2009, 1-17.
“Jihad poetry at the time of the crusades” in Crusades – Medieval Worlds in Conflict,, ed. T. Madden, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2010, 9-22.
“The Shī‘īs of Aleppo in the Zengid period; some unexploited textual and epigraphic evidence”, in Differenz und Dynamik im Islam. Festschrift für Heinz Halm zum 70. Geburtstag, eds. Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Verena Klemm, Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, 2011, 163-80.
“Aspects of the court of the Great Seljuqs” in The Seljuqs: Politics, Society and Culture, eds. Christian Lange and Songul Mecit, EUP, Edinburgh, 2011, 22-38.
“What’s in a name? Tughtegin – the ‘Minister of the Antichrist’?” in Fortresses of the Intellect. Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary, ed. Omar Ali-de-Onzaga, I.B. Tauris, London and New York, 2011, 459-72.
“Sayf al-Dawla, al-Mutanabbī and Byzantium: The Evidence of a Textile”, in Arabia, Greece and Byzantium. Cultural Contacts in Ancient and Medieval Times, eds. Abdulaziz Al-Helabi, Moshalleh Al- Moraekhi, Dimitrios Letsios and Abdullah Abduljabbar, Riyadh 2012 / AH 1433, 225-34.
“The Kimiya-yi sa‘adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) of al-Ghazali: a misunderstood work?” in Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran. Art, literature and culture from early Islam to Qajar Persia. Studies in Honour of Charles Melville, eds. Robert Hillenbrand, A.C S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva, IB Tauris, 2013, 59-69.
“Nizām al-Mulk: A Maverick Vizier?“ in The Age of the Seljuqs (Idea of Iran), III, ed. Sarah Stewart, IB Tauris, 2014, 29-40.
“A short history of jihad “ in Twenty-first Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action (Library of Modern Religion), I.B. Tauris, London, 2015, 25-44.
“The life and times of ‘Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri“ in Eastern Iran and Transoxiana, 750-1150, ed. Andrew Peacock , IB Tauris, London , 2015, 172-84.
Encyclopedia Articles
"Malazgird", Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd edition), Leiden, 1987, cols. 243a-244b. "Marwanids", ibid., cols. 626a-627b.
"Mayyafarikin", ibid., cols. 930a-932b.
"Mu’in al-Din Sulayman Parwana", Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd edition), Leiden, 1992, cols. 479a- 480b.
"Al-Mustandjid", ibid., cols. 726a-727a. "Al-Mustansir", ibid., cols. 727a-729a.
"Al-Mustarshid", ibid., cols. 733a-735b. "Al-Mustazhir", ibid., cols. 755a-756a.
"Al-Ghazzali", Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, ed. J.S. Meisami and P. Starkey, Routledge, London and New York, 1998, vol. 1, cols. 252a-253a.
"Saljuqs", ibid., vol. 2 cols. 682a-683b.
"Seljuq women", in The Balance of Truth, ed. C. Balim-Harding and C. Imber, Istanbul, 2000, 145-6.
"Al-Ghazali", in Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms, ed. M. Jolly, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, 374-5.
"Ayyubids" in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, New York, 2003, 657-60. "Artuqid", in Encyclopedia of the Crusades, 110-12.
"Ayyubids”, in Encyclopedia of the Crusades,123-8.
”Crusades”, Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, Princeton. 2011, 11- 12.
Outreach publications
“Teaching the Crusades”, in Learning and Teaching about Islam: Essays in Understanding', ed. Caroline Elwood, International Baccalaureate, John Catt Educational, 2012, 88-96.
“Kuruluş miti olarak Malazgirt”, Derin Tarih, 5/2012, 76-77.
Work in press
“The Nizamiyyas”, in Festschrift for Edmund Bosworth
Review Articles
Review article of S.G. Agadzanov, Seljuqiden und Turkmenien im 11-12 Jahrhundert, translated into German by R. Schletzer, Hamburg, 1986, and idem. Der Staat der Seldschukiden und Mittelasien im 11-12 Jahrhundert, translated into German by R. Schletzer, Berlin, 1994, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 6, part 2, July 1996, 253-257.
Invited Lectures
September 2008 - March 2009
Seljuq symposium, University of Edinburgh – September 2008 CASAW conference in Abu Dhabi, October 2008
CASAW/ Royal Society of Edinburgh, December 2008 University of Aalborg, Denmark, February 2009 American University, Beirut, March 2009
Friends of the Oriental Museum, Durham, March 2009 Queens University, Belfast, May 2009 (two lectures)