Robert Hoyland

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1. Patricia Crone

   Author of God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications), Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Hagarism : the making of the Islamic world

2. Wael B. Hallaq

   Author of The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (Themes in Islamic Law), Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law, An Introduction to Islamic Law

3. John Wansbrough

   Author of Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation, The Sectarian Milieu: Content And Composition of Islamic Salvation History

4. Robert Hoyland

   Author of Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Stu

5. Marshall G. S. Hodgson

   Author of The Classical Age of Islam, The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Venture of Islam Vol. 3)

6. Amira K. Bennison

   Author of The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire, Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

7. R. Stephen Humphreys

   Author of Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry

8. Ibn Khaldūn

   Author of The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History(Abridged Rosenthal Translation), The Muqaddimah

9. Parvaneh Pourshariati

   Author of Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (International Library of Iranian Studies)

10. Chase F. Robinson

    Author of Islamic Historiography (Themes in Islamic History)

11. Michael Rice

    Author of Egypt's Making: The Origins of Ancient Egypt 5000-2000 BC

12. Tarif Khalidi

    Author of Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

13. Fergus Millar

    Author of The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337 (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures)

14. John Laughlin

    Author of Archaeology and the Bible (Approaching the Ancient World)

15. Walter E. Kaegi

    Author of Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests

16. Albrecht Noth

    Author of Early Arabic Historical Tradition: a Source-Critical Study (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)

17. Alan Sinfield

    Author of Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism (Accents on Shakespeare)

18. Hugh Kennedy

    Author of The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (2nd Edition) (History

19. Garth Fowden

    Author of Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

20. Asma Afsaruddin

    Author of The First Muslims: History and Memory