FORA.tv Speaker - Chase Robinson

Chase Robinson is Provost of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

He is the author of The Formation of Islam, Sixth to Eleventh Century (vol. 1 of the 6-volume New Cambridge History of Islam, 2009), The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600-1300 (Cambridge, 2009), Abd al-Malik (Oxford, 2005), Islamic Historiography (Cambridge, 2003), A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra (Oxford, 2001), and Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (Cambridge, 2000).