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Robert Hillenbrand
Robert Hillenbrand, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Emeritus Professor of Islamic art at Edinburgh University, and Honorary Professor of Islamic Art, St Andrews University, has published twelve books, co-authored, edited or co-edited a further fourteen books, and published 197 articles. He has been Slade Professor at Cambridge; held visiting professorships at Princeton, UCLA, Bamberg, Dartmouth College, New York, Leiden, Cairo, and Groningen; and organized ten conferences. He edits two series at Edinburgh University Press: Islamic Art and Architecture (eighteen volumes to date) and Collected Articles on Islamic Art. His interests focus on Islamic architecture (especially in Iran and Umayyad Syria), book painting, and iconography.