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Kurzbiographie: Chase F. Robinson is President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the doctorate-granting institution of the nation’s largest university. Dr. Robinson, a historian of the premodern Middle East, is also Distinguished Professor of History. From 2008 through June 2013, he served as Provost and Senior Vice President of the Graduate Center. In this capacity, Dr. Robinson led a comprehensive planning process culminating in the GC’s Strategic Plan for 2012-2016, outlining the institution’s major goals. Dr. Robinson also worked with the Office of Institutional Advancement to secure major funding to enhance faculty support, helped establish the Graduate Center at the forefront of the digital evolution within higher education, expanded the Master’s of Liberal Studies program, and launched major initiatives, such as the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, the CUNY Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context, and the Advanced Research Collaborative.

Dr. Robinson received an A.B. (Honors) from Brown University, having also studied at the American University in Cairo, the University of Cairo, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1992, he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, where he was awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. In 1993 he joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wolfson College, Oxford, where he taught until 2008. From 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 2005 he received a two-year British Academy Research Readership. As Chairman of the Faculty Board of Oriental Studies at Oxford, Robinson put in place the department’s first academic plan, broadened its scope in terms of development and external relations, and forged new relationships with international donors as well as academic institutions in the Middle East.

A specialist in early Islamic history, Robinson is the author or editor of seven books and more than forty articles. He also serves on a number of editorial and review boards, and his commentaries have appeared in Inside Higher Education, the Huffington Post, the (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, and Radio 5 in the UK.

Dr. Robinson’s appointment was announced in May 2013, as President William P. Kelly serves as interim chancellor of CUNY. Visit this link to read the announcement.

http://chaserobinson.net/biography/

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Islamic civilization in thirty lives : the first… von Chase F. Robinson

Meritorious book in the sense that it illustrates the wealth and diversity of the various Islamic empires on the basis of short biographies of striking figures: not only rulers (like Saladin, Timoer Lenk or Mehmed II), but also scholars (of course mostly Averroes and Ibn Khaldun), theologians (both rational and reactionary), merchants and even concubines (with 4 bio's, women are poorly represented, but of course this illustrates patriarchal reality).
The short introductions at the beginning of each time period and also the context paragraphs in the bio's themselves clearly indicate that Robinson knows quite a bit about the Islamic world, and offers very nuanced approaches. But that makes it surprising that he choose 'Islamic Civilization', in the singular, as the title of this book, while it clearly illustrates you’d better speak of civilizations in the plural. And in the same vein, it is very regrettable that Islamic empires outside the Arab world (especially in South and East Asia) remain completely out of the picture (for example, the Mogul empire in the Indies already existed at the end of the 15th century, but is left unmentioned). The chronological restriction to the first 1,000 years of Islamic history also suggests that the Islamic culture has never reached the same level again.… (mehr)

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