Chase F. Robinson is an American historian of

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(born 1963), who is currently Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the

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and the

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of the

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. Prior to assuming this role, he served as President and Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center at

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. He was formerly a fellow of Wolfson College at the

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from 1993 until 2008.''Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives''.
University of California Press. Retrieved 30 November 2016. Robinson received his bachelor's degree from

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and his Ph.D. from

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. Fluent in French, he spent his junior year of high school at School Year Abroad's France campus, and has additionally studied at

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and the

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. He is the editor of the first volume of ''

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''.The New Cambridge History of Islam.
Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2016.

Selected publications

* ''Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia''. Cambridge, 2000. * ''Islamic Historiography''. Cambridge, 2003. * ''A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra''. Oxford, 2001. * ''Texts, Documents and Artefacts
Islamic
Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards''. Brill, Leiden, 2003. * ''Abd al-Malik''. Oxford, 2005. * ''The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600-1300''. Cambridge, 2009. * ''The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1, The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries''.

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, Cambridge, 2010. (Editor) *''Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years''.

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, 2016.

References

21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Brown University alumni City University of New York faculty Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford Harvard University alumni Historians of Islam Living people People from Newton, Massachusetts Place of birth missing (living people) Smithsonian Institution people American male non-fiction writers 1963 births {{islam-historian-stub