Author Information
Amira K. Bennison is Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. Her research interests include the medieval Islamic West (Islamic Iberia and Morocco), Maghribi modes of legitimation and cultures of power, and 18th-19th century Muslim religio-political discourse and engagement with modernity. In addition, Amira is an experienced cultural tour lecturer who has led numerous trips to Morocco, southern Spain, Syria and Egypt. She also contributes regularly to television programmes on Islamic history and is a frequent guest on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time'. Her publications include The Great Caliphs: the Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire, Cities in the Premodern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society, edited with Alison L. Gascoigne, Jihad and its Interpretations in Pre-Colonial Morocco, as well as numerous articles.
Contributors:
Abigail Krasner Balbale is Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Arts and Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center in New York City.
Amira K. Bennison is Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
James Brown completed his PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2009.
Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo has a PhD in the history of al-Andalus from the University of Granada and the University of London (2007).
Stephen Cory teaches in the History and Religious Studies Departments at Cleveland State University, specialising in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa during the late medieval/early modern period.
Allen Fromherz is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Medieval Mediterranean History at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Camilo Gómez-Rivas is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at the American University in Cairo.
Russell Hopley is a lecturer in Arabic studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, USA.
Mohamed El Mansour is Senior Professor of Modern History at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
Cynthia Robinson is Chair and Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art at Cornell University.
Maya Shatzmiller is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Amalia Zomeño is a researcher at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid).