Patricia Crone to Receive 2013 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal

Patricia Crone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, will receive the 2013 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Excellence in Islamic Studies from the G. E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at the University of California, Los Angeles. The medal, which is given to outstanding scholars whose work has significantly and lastingly advanced the study of Islamic civilization, will be presented to Professor Crone at a conference on October 28, “Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya and late antiquity in the Qur'an and Tradition.”