Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

A series of studies of Islamic civilisation and culture in the medieval period written by experts in the field

• Explores the transmission of knowledge between East and West
• Considers aspects of history that move the field beyond politics and chronology to embrace disciplines such as astronomy and astrology, geography and medicine
• Edited by Professor Carole Hillenbrand, one of the world’s leading historians of medieval Islamic civilisation

A particular feature of medieval Islamic civilisation was its wide horizons. The Muslims were heir not only to the Graeco-Roman world of the Mediterranean, but to the ancient Near East and the empires of Assyria, Babylon and the Persians. Beyond that, they were in frequent contact with India and China to the east and with black Africa to the south. This intellectual openness is present in many inter-related fields of Muslim thought: philosophy and theology, medicine and pharmacology, algebra and geometry, astronomy and astrology, geography and the literature of marvels, ethnology and sociology. It also impacted powerfully on trade and on the networks that made it possible.

This openness is reflected in this series. It covers a wide range of topics, periods and geographical areas, including studies of literature, history, religion, law, art, economics, sociology and science.

Write for the series

If you're working on a book that would be suitable for this series, we’d love to hear from you.

• Find out more about writing and submitting your book proposal
• Once you're ready to submit, email your book proposal to Rachel Bridgewater, Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies: rachel.bridgewater@eup.ed.ac.uk