Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning Vol II: Essays in Honour of Professor Robert Hillenbrandvolume 2 Ansari Ali M.

Collected essays honoring the work of British professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.Carole and Robert Hillenbrand are legendary British professors, both of whom have made immense contributions to the fields of Islamic history and art history, and they are highly respected and beloved by the academic community. The eleven articles in the volume dedicated to Carole Hillenbrand include research on a range of topics, including the elusive Fatimid caliph al-Zafir, a crusader raid on Mecca, and the Persian bureaucrat Mirza Saleh Shirazi's history of England. For these two volumes, editors Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari have gathered an eclectic mix of scholarly contributions by colleagues and by some of their most recent students who now occupy positions in universities worldwide.

In Robert Hillenbrand's volume, the thirteen articles include studies of a rare eighth-century