Patricia Crone to Receive Honorary Doctorate

Patricia Crone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University in the Netherlands on February 8, 2013. She will receive the honor jointly with her collaborator Michael Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in recognition of their “pioneering and consistently innovative” work on the history of Islam. The doctorate will be presented on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Arabic studies at Leiden.