Robert Hillenbrand

Professor Robert Hillenbrand was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and has spent most of his career teaching at the University of Edinburgh, with visiting professorships at Princeton, UCLA, Bamberg, Leiden, Dartmouth College, New York, Cairo and Groningen. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Professor of Islamic art at the University of St Andrews. His scholarly interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and early Islamic Syria. His thirteen books include Imperial Images in Persian Painting; Islamic Art and Architecture (revised and expanded edition, 2021); The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction; the prize-winning Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning; The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. A landmark of modern Islamic architecture; An unknown masterpiece from Mongol Iran; Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author), The Great Mongol Shahnama and four volumes of his collected articles: Studies in Medieval Islamic Architecture I and II; Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book; and Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts. In addition, he has edited or co-edited thirteen books. He has also published some 200 articles on aspects of Islamic art and architecture and organized ten conferences. He has served as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.