List of Contributors Introduction List of Abbreviations English Transliteration System Entries A-Z Glossary Chronological Tables Index
Julie Scott Meisami was Lecturer in Persian at the University of Oxford, UK, from 1985 until her retirement in 2002. In 2002-2003 she held an Aga Khan fellowship in Islamic Art at Harvard University. She has served as Islamic/Near East editor for the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Paul Starkey is Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Durham. He is author of Modern Arabic Literature and a former editor of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
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