Books

Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (Cambridge, 2000)







A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra (Oxford, 2001)







Islamic Historiography (Cambridge, 2003)
Abd al-Malik (Oxford, 2005)







The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600-1300 (Cambridge, 2009 )
The Formation of Islam, Sixth to Eleventh Century (vol. 1 of the 6-volume New Cambridge History of Islam, 2009)

Grants and Fellowships

British Academy, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the American Research Center in Egypt. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, Robinson received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Harvard.