Chase F.

Robinson The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 212 817 7232 crobinson@gc.cuny.edu Employment 200820081993-2008 2003-2005 2002 1992-1993 Education 1992 1985 1984; 1982 1983-1984 Ph.D., Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University A.B. (Honors), Independent Concentration (Religious Studies/History/Anthropology), Brown University Middlebury College (summer) School of Arabic The American University in Cairo, The University of Cairo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (visiting/overseas student) Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York University Lecturer, then Professor, of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford; and Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College Chairman, Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (Invited) Visiting Professor of History, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Middlebury College

Fellowships and awards 2006 2005-2007 1999-2000 1991 1990 1989 1987-1990 1986-1987 1985-1986 1985 1985 American Research Center in Cairo, Fellowship (2006) (declined) British Academy Research Readership (two years of fully-funded research leave) Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Certificate for Distinction in Teaching, Danforth Center, Harvard University Third-year Graduate Prize, Harvard University Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Government Harvard University Graduate Fellowship Fellow, Center for Arabic Study Abroad Bishop McVickar Prize, Brown University Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize, Brown University

Major Funded Research (institutional) 2009 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Interdisciplinary Innovation in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, A Renewal Plan ($2,410,000)

Major Funded Research (individual and collaborative) 2005 The Leverhulme Trust, Prosopography of Arabic Sources for Byzantines and Crusaders (Arabic expertise in support of C. Roueche, M. Jeffrey and A. Cameron) (124,533 to support research and publication of a printed and on-line data base) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar (with P. Sijpesteijn, Oxford)

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($150,000 to support research assistance and fund a post-doctoral appointment and studentship for a seminar on Violence and State-building in the pre-modern Mediterranean) 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities, Research grant for the al-Ya`qubi Translation Project (with M. Gordon, Oxford, Ohio, and L. Conrad, Hamburg) ($90,000 to support research and publication of a translation of a 10th-century Muslim historians work)

Publications Monographs 1. `Abd al-Malik (Oneworld Press, 2005) (ISBN 1-85168-361-5; 139 pp. + xv)
Reviews: International Journal of Middle East Studies 39 (2007); Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 23 (2007); Middle Studies Association Bulletin 41 (2007); The Times Literary Supplement (July 14, 2006).

2. Islamic Historiography (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (ISBN 0-521-62081; 237 pp. + xxv)
Persian translation (Teheran, 2009; rev. forthcoming) Reviews: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 15 (2004); Eurasian Studies 11 (2003); Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin 20 (2004); al-Masaq 17 (2005); The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21 (2004); Choice (July, 2003); Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 22 (2006); Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49 (2006); Welt des Islams 47 (2007).

3. Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (Cambridge University Press, 2000) (ISBN 0-521-781159; 206 pp. + xv).
Reviews: The Historian 65 (2003); American Historical Review 108 (2003); Journal of Islamic Studies 13 (2002); Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 19 (2003); Journal of the American Oriental Society 123 (2003); Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies 3 (2001); Le Moyen Age 3-4 (2002); Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 62 (2002); History 57 (2002); American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 20 (2003); Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 37 (2003); Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 19 (2003); Studies in Contemporary Islam 4 (2002).

4. The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600-1200 (Cambridge University Press; forthcoming, 2013). Edited volumes 1. The Formation of Islam, sixth to eleventh century, vol. 1 of the 6-volume New Cambridge History of Islam, general ed. M.A. Cook (Cambridge, 2010) (ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8; 852 pp. + xxxviii)
Winner of the Waldo G. Leland Prize awarded by the American Historical Association Reviews: The Telegraph (November 10, 2011).

2. Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards (E.J. Brill, 2003) (ISBN 0929-2403; 417 pp. + xiii)
Reviews: Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 38 (2004); Journal of Oriental and African Studies 14 (2005); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 15 (2005); Journal of Semitic Studies 51 (2006).

3. A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art (Oxford University Press, 2001) (ISBN 0-19-728024-2; 207 pp.)
Reviews: Journal of Islamic Studies 15 (2004); MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 4 (2004).

4. Oxford History of Historical Writing, general ed. D. Woolf, co-editor (with S. Foot) of Volume 2: Historical Writing, 600-1400 (Oxford, 2012, in press). 5. The Ya`qubi Translation Project (co-editors M.S. Gordon and E. Rowson) (in preparation) Articles/Contributions 1. The early Islamic historiographical tradition in C.F. Robinson and S. Foot, eds, The Oxford History of Historiography, Volume 2: 600 to 1400 (Oxford, 2012, in press). 2. The First Islamic Empire, in J.P. Arnason and K. Raaflaub, eds, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Oxford, 2011), pp. 229-48. 3. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution, in Y. Suleiman, ed., Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh, 2010), pp. 226-51. 4. Introduction, in C.F. Robinson, ed., The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of Islam, sixth to eleventh century (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 1-15. 5. The seventh century, in C.F. Robinson, ed., The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of Islam, sixth to eleventh century (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 173-225. 6. From formative Islam to classical Islam, in C.F. Robinson, ed., The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1: The Formation of Islam, sixth to eleventh century (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 683-95. 7. The Ideological uses of Islam, Past & Present 203 (2009), pp. 205-228. 8. A safe-conduct for the Abbasid caliph, `Abd Allah b. `Ali (with A. Marsham), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70 (2007), pp. 247-81. 9. Early Islamic history: parallels and problems, in H. Williamson, ed., Understanding Ancient Israel, Proceedings of the British Academy, 143 (London, 2007), pp. 87-102. 10. A local historians debt to al-Tabari: the case of al-Azdis Tarikh al-Mawsil, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 126 (2006), pp. 1-15. 11. Neck-sealing in early Islam, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 48.3 (2005), pp. 409-441. 12. al-Tabari, in M. Cooperson and S. Toorawa, eds, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Arabic Literary Culture, ca. 500-925 (Detroit, etc., 2005), pp. 432-443. 13. The conquest of Khuzistan: a historiographical reassessment, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 67 (2004), pp. 14-39; reprinted in F.M. Donner, ed., The Expansion of the Early Islamic State (Aldershot, 2008). 14. Reconstructing early Islam: truth and consequences, in H. Berg, ed., Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins (Leiden, 2003), pp. 101-134. 15. Ar-Raqqa in the Syriac historical tradition, in S. Heidemann and A. Becker, eds, Raqqa II Die islamische Stadt (Mainz, 2003), pp. 81-85. 16. Introduction to C.F. Robinson, ed., A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra (Oxford, 2001), pp. 8-20. 17. Prophecy and holy men in early Islam, in J. Howard-Johnston and P. Hayward, eds, The Cult of
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Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1999), pp. 241-262. 18. The study of Islamic historiography: a progress report, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3.7.2 (1997), pp. 199-227. 19. Ibn al-Azraq, his Tarikh Mayyafariqin, and early Islam, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3.6.1 (1996), pp. 7-27. 20. Tribes and nomads in early Islamic northern Mesopotamia, in K. Bartl and S.R. Hauser, eds, Continuity and Change in Northern Mesopotamia from the Hellenistic to the Early Islamic Period, Berliner Beitrge zum Vorderen Orient Bd. 17 (Berlin, 1996), pp. 429-452. 21. al-Mu`afa b. `Imran and the beginnings of the Tabaqat literature, Journal of the American Oriental Society 115 (1996), pp. 114-120. Shorter articles and entries 1. Civil war, in G. Bowering, et al (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton, forthcoming, 2012). 2. al-Azdi, Yazid b. Muhammad, Encyclopaedia of Islam3 (2010), pp. 125-8. 3. Riddles in the sand (recent scholarship on the Quran) Times Literary Supplement (May 29, 2009), pp. 14-15; Italian translation Ecdotica (forthcoming). 4. Warner, Encyclopedia of the Quran, vol. v (2006), pp. 459-61. 5. Conquest, Encyclopedia of the Quran, vol. i (2001), pp. 397-401. 6. Waraqa b. Nawfal, Encyclopaedia of Islam2, vol. xi (2001), pp. 142f. 7. Uhud, Encyclopaedia of Islam2, vol. x (2000), pp. 782f. 8. `Ubayd Allah b. `Umar, Encyclopaedia of Islam2, vol. x (2000), p. 763. 9. `Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad, Encyclopaedia of Islam2, vol. x (2000), pp. 763f. 10. Bernard Lewis in D.R. Woolf, ed., Making History: A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland, 1998), p. 419. 11. Marshall G.S. Hodgson, in D.R. Woolf, ed., Making History: A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland, 1998), p. 556. 12. Shabib b. Yazid, Encyclopaedia of Islam2, vol. ix (1995), pp. 164f. 13. Shaharidja, Encyclopaedia of Islam2, vol. ix (1995), p. 202. Book reviews 1. D. Powers, Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men in Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011), pp. 51-52. 2. P. Crone, From Kavad to Ghazali in International Journal of Middle East Studies 40 (2008), pp. 512-14. 3. Y.D. Nevo and J. Koren, Crossroads to Islam in The Times Literary Supplement (January 28, 2005).
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4. P. Walker, Exploring an Islamic Empire: Fatimid History and its Sources in Journal of Semitic Studies 49 (2004), pp. 396-79. 5. Ibn Warraq (ed.), What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary in The Times Literary Supplement (September 12, 2003). 6. J. Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads in The Times Literary Supplement (March 21, 2003). 7. P. Cobb, White Banners: Contention in Abbasid Syria in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 12 (2002), pp. 195-6. 8. T. el-Hibri, Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography in Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 31 (2001), pp. 181-4. 9. M.Q. Zaman, Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids in the Journal of Islamic Studies 11 (2000), pp. 236-38. 10. R. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 10 (2000), pp. 379-81. 11. K. Athamina/al-Baladhuri, Ansab al-ashraf in Der Islam 76 (1999), pp. 341-42. 12. M. Lecker, Muslims, Jews and Pagans in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 7 (1997), pp. 129-31. 13. B. Yeor, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 31 (1997), pp. 97-8. 14. A. Palmer, The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ns. 5 (1995), pp. 97-101. 15. D. Morray, An Ayyubid Notable and His World in Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (1996), pp. 322-23. 16. A.M. Salman, al-Mawsil fil-`ahdayn al-rashidi wal-umawi in al-`Usur al-Wusta 4 (1993), pp. 41-42. 17. J.W. Jandora, The March From Medina: A Revisionist Study of the Arab Conquests in International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (1992), pp. 741-3. Commentary and public understanding Great Issues Forum: Immigration and Islam The Graduate Center, March 8, 2010; Fora.tv (moderator) Today's Lecture: The Good Muslim (Higher Education policy), Times Higher Education Supplement (July 13, 2007) The Real Mohammed, Radio 5 (May 2007) (broadcast interview) Islam: Meeting of Minds (Key Stage 3 Textbook) (consultant) Research Seminars, Invited Lectures, and Conference Papers The University of Naples (October 2011) Washington University in St Louis (April, 2010) Miami University of Ohio (April, 2010) The Graduate Center, City University of New York (March, 2010) The Sorbonne, Paris (April, 2008) The Kevorkian Centre, New York University (April, 2007) The Middle East Center, The University of Pennsylvania (April, 2007) The British Academy, London (April, 2005)
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The Grand Mosque, Muscat, Oman (February, 2005) Brown University (September, 2004) Harvard University (September, 2003) Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford (June, 2003) The British Academy, London (December, 2002) University of California, Santa Barbara (February, 2002) University of California, Los Angeles (February, 2002) Institute for Ismaili Studies, London (November, 2002) Annual Meeting, American Historical Association (January, 2001) Medieval Mediterranean Seminar, Oxford (November, 2000) From Jahiliyya to Islam, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (July, 2000); Medievalists Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (November, 1999) Late Antiquity and Early Islam Workshop V, University of Birmingham (April, 1999) Near and Middle Eastern History Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies (February, 1996) Faculty of Oriental Studies, Medieval Studies Seminar, Oxford (October, 1993; February, 1996) International Conference on al-Tabari, University of St. Andrews (August, 1995) After Rome Seminar, Oxford (May, 1996) Seminar, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge (November, 1994) Late Antiquity and Early Islam Workshop IV, The Wellcome Institute, London (November, 1994) Byzantine Studies Seminar, Oxford (May, 1994) Annual Meeting, American Oriental Society (March, 1994, 1998) The 4th International Aram Conference (September, 1993) Oxford Near East Study Group, (November, 1993) Syriac Studies Symposium, (Providence, R.I., June, 1991) Annual Meeting, Middle East Studies Association (November, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002, 2009 [discussant], 2011 [discussant]; December, 1995) Teaching and Supervision Undergraduate teaching (Middlebury, Oxford, UCLA) Lectures, classes and tutorials on the political and social history of the early Islamic Middle East (AD 6001200) to first- and third-year students; reading classes on Arabic historical, geographical and legal texts for thirdand fourth-year students; classes and tutorials on the intellectual and cultural history of classical Islam (The Formation of Islam) and late antique history (the Transformation of the Ancient World) Graduate teaching and supervision (Oxford, UCLA, Graduate Center) Classes and tutorials on the above topics, in addition to supervision of M.Phil. candidates reading for the Classical and Medieval Islamic History degree and D.Phil. candidates, the latter writing theses on a variety of topics in Islamic history and historiography (e.g., Byzantine views on early Islam; a translation and commentary of an unpublished MS of Ibn al-Furats Universal History; the `Alid family of 8th- and early 9th-century Iraq; the historiography of the Islamic conquest of Spain). Completed M.Phils. and theses titles: H. Munt, Ibn al-Azraq and the conquest of the north (2007) P. Held, Prophecy and sira (2005) N. Clarke, The Islamic conquest of Spain (2005) V. Stodolsky, The raising of hands in Islamic law (2004) T. Bernheimer, The rebellion of `Abd Allah b. Mu`awiya (2002) M. Hijjas, The woman raja: female rule in seventeenth-century Aceh (2001) N. Hayder, From polemic to consensus: the wasiya of Abu Hashim (2000) A. Marsham, Maslama b. `Abd al-Malik (1998) F. Bora, The Fatimid historian al-Quda`i (1998) F. Hamza, An early Ibadi religious epistle: a critical edition (1997)
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Completed D.Phils. and theses titles: F. Bora, Ibn al-Furats account of late Fatimid rule (2011) H. Munt, Studies in early Islamic Medina (2010) N. Clarke, The Islamic Conquest of Spain (2009) T. Bernheimer, A social history of the Alid family in early Islam (2006) A. Marsham, The bay`a to the caliph in early Islam (2004) C. Belo, Chance and determinism in Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd (2004; co-supervised with Y. Michot) M. Vaiou, Byzantine-Abbasid diplomacy: methods and procedures, 750-950 (2002, co- supervised with E. Jeffreys) F. Hamza, To Hell and back: a study of the concepts of Hell and intercession in Islam (2001) Professional Activities Editorial and review boards, juries Editorial Board, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2009-) Award committee, Giorgio Levi della Vida Award in Islamic Studies (2005) Arts and Humanities Research Board/Council, Peer Review College (2004-8) Editorial Board, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press (1996-) Academic Advisory Board, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (1996-2005) Academic Board, Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies (1993-2000) International Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages (commissioning editor) Manuscript reviewer: International Journal of Middle East Studies The American Historical Review The Journal of Islamic Studies Islamic Law and Society The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies British-Kuwaiti Friendship Prize RoutledgeCurzon Yale University Press Cambridge University Press E.J. Brill Oneworld Press Oxford University Press I.B. Tauris Darwin Press (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam) Organizing and steering committees Steering Committee, Oxford Centre of Late Antiquity (2007-2008) First Oxford Seminar in Papyrology (the Oriental Institute, 11-14 January, 2006) (with P. Sijpesteijn) Steering Committee, joint British Academy and British School of Iraq conference on Bureaucracy in the Near East (April 2004) Co-convener, Medieval Studies Seminar, Faculty of Oriental Studies (1995-8; 2001-2004) Co-convener, Research in Progress Seminar, Faculty of Oriental Studies (1997-1998) Organizing committee, BRISMES conference, Oxford (July, 1997) Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (November 1993)

External Examining D.Phil. examiner, St. Andrews (2001) BA, University of Edinburgh (1998-2002) International Baccalaureate (1997-2000)