Roxani Eleni Margariti is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and
South Asian Studies at Emory University. Born and raised in Athens,
Greece, she received her B.A. in Western Asiatic Archaeology from
University College London, her M.A. in Nautical Archaeology from
Texas A&M University, and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies
from Princeton University in 2002. She is the author of Aden and
the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian
Port (University of North Carolina Press).
Adam Sabra is Associate Professor of History at the University of
Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from
Princeton University in 1998. He is the author of Poverty and
Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 (Cambridge
University Press, 2000), and co-editor with Richard McGregor of The
Development of Sufism in Mamluk Egypt (IFAO, 2006). His research
currently focuses on the social history of Sufism in Mamluk and
Ottoman Egypt.
Petra M. Sijpesteijn holds the Chair of Arabic Language and Culture
at Leiden University and is Chargée de recherche at the Institut de
Recherche et Histoire des Textes at the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She received her Ph.D. in Near
Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2004, after which she
was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (2003-2007).
Her forthcoming book is entitled The Formation of a Muslim State in
late Umayyad Egypt. She is also one of the founders and is
currently the president of the International Society for Arabic
Papyrology.
Contributors include: Mark R. Cohen, Jonathan P. Berkey, Michael
Bonner, Olivia Remie Constable, Hassan S. Khalilieh, Roxani Eleni
Margariti, David S. Powers, Yossef Rapoport, Adam Sabra, Boaz
Shoshan, Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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