Chase F. Robinson este specialist in istoria premoderna a Orientului Mijlociu si profesor la The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Din 2018 este directorul „Dame Jillian Sackler” al Arthur M. Sackler Gallery si Freer Gallery of Art din cadrul Smithsonian Institution. A scris numeroase lucrari consacrate istoriei Islamului, printre care: Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (2000), Islamic Historiography (2003), ‘Abd al Malik (2005), The Legacy of the Prophet: The Middle East and Islam, 600 1300 (2009).