Robert G. Hoyland
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Robert G. Hoyland is a scholar and historian of the Middle East . He is the author of a number of very importants works which document the medieval history of the Middle East. He is a former student of historian Patricia Crone and is a Leverhulme Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford England.
Hoyland's renowned work Seeing Islam As Others Saw It is a momentous reference in early Islamic historiography as it provides an exhaustive survey of non-Muslim eye witness accounts of that period.
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- Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam
- Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones
- Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking: Kindi's Treatise on Swords and Their Kinds
- Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)
