Carole Hillenbrand OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 is professor of Islamic History

Muslim history

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 at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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. She is currently the Vice-President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and a Member of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics

Council for Assisting Refugee Academics

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Her research interests include "The Crusades; Islamic political thought; medieval and modern concepts of jihad; Arabic and Persian travel literature." She serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals including the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, often abbreviated to JAIS, is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal. It was founded in 1995 by Joseph N. Bell from the University of Bergen, Norway and Petr Zemánek from Charles University in Prague. The current editor is Alex Metcalfe of...

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Hillenbrand was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

External links

• CV of Carole Hillenbrand