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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2023
The three years that I spent at Royal Holloway, University of London between 1975 and 1978, as professor and head of the History Department, were among the happiest and most purposive of my entire academic life. This was due, in no small part, to my instant friendship with Francis Robinson. We soon realised that our interests converged to a remarkable degree, despite the gulf of almost two millennia between my own concern for the world of Late Antiquity and his with religion and politics in contemporary India and Pakistan.
1 Robinson, Francis, Separatism Among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims, 1860–1923 (Cambridge, 1974; reprinted with an Introduction, 1993)Google Scholar.
2 Ibid., Introduction to the 1993 reprint, p. xv.
3 Letter to Peter Brown, 22 December 1976.
4 Letter to Peter Brown, 8 January 1979.
5 Ibid.
6 Letter to Peter Brown, 25 January 1979.
7 Robinson, Francis, Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 (Oxford, 1982)Google Scholar.
8 Brown, Peter, ‘The rise and function of the holy man in Late Antiquity’, Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971), pp. 80–101CrossRefGoogle Scholar, now in idem, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1982), pp. 103–152.
9 For my own re-thinking of many of the issues raised in this article, see Brown, Peter, ‘The rise and function of the holy man in Late Antiquity, 1971–1997’, Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998), pp. 353–376CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and, most recently (on Syrian asceticism), Brown, Peter, Treasure in Heaven. The Holy Poor in Early Christianity (Charlottesville, VA, 2016), pp. 53–70Google Scholar.
10 Brown, Peter, ‘Late Antiquity and Islam: parallels and contrasts’, in Moral Conduct and Authority. The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam, (ed.) Metcalf, Barbara Daly (Berkeley, 1984), pp. 23–37CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
11 F. Robinson, ‘The culamâ of Farangî Mahall and their adab’, in ibid., pp. 152–183.