Robert G. Hoyland (born 1966) is a historian, specializing in the medieval history of theMiddle East. He was a student of historianPatricia Crone and was a LeverhulmeFellow atPembroke College, Oxford. He is currently Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,[1] having previously been Professor of Islamic history at theUniversity of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies[2] and a professor of history at theUniversity of St. Andrews andUCLA.
Hoyland's best-known academic workSeeing Islam as Others Saw It is a contribution to early Islamichistoriography, being a survey of non-Muslim eyewitness accounts of that period.[3] Hoyland also authoredIn God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (2014) in which he questions the traditional Islamic view of theEarly Muslim conquests. According to Hoyland, Islam still had to evolve, so he prefers to call the conquestsArab rather thanIslamic conquests.[4]
‘Language and Identity: the twin histories of Arabic and Aramaic', Scripta Israelica Classica 23 (2003).
"History, Fiction and Authorship in the first centuries of Islam"; Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam;Julia Bray (ed); Routledge; 16-46 (2006)
^Hoyland, Robert (1 January 2012). Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (ed.)."Early Islam as a Late Antique Religion".Oriental Institute and St. Cross college, Oxford University. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity – via Academia.edu.
