Carole Hillenbrand

Carole Hillenbrand CBE FBA is a British Islamic scholar who is Emerita Professor in Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews. She studied modern languages at Girton College, Cambridge (starting 1962), and Arabic and Turkish at Somerville College, Oxford, She earned her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1979.

Hillenbrand specialises in classical Islamic history, especially the period of the Seljuqs and the Crusades and has produced major publications and articles within this field.