# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-g-hoyland
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:17:53.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-g-hoyland"
name: "Robert G. Hoyland"
slug: "robert-g-hoyland"
description: "Robert G. Hoyland is a historian, specializing in the medieval history of the Middle East. He was a student of historian Patricia Crone and was a Leverhulme Fellow at Pembroke 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, having previously been Professor of Islamic history at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies and a professor of history at the University of St. Andrews and UCLA."
tagline: "British medieval historian (born 1966)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.67
  momentum:             15.24604569420035
  historical:           6.554321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Robert G. Hoyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "روبرت هويلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت جى هويلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Hoyland"
    title: "Robert G. Hoyland"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Hoyland"
    title: "Robert G. Hoyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Hoyland"
    title: "Robert G. Hoyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Hoyland"
    title: "Robert G. Hoyland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2157206"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump