Berat Açıl, PhD, Boğaziçi University. He is currently teaching Ottoman literature at Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey. He is the author of Allegory in the Classical Turkish Literature (in Turkish) and the editor of Ottoman Book Culture: Carullah Efendi Library and His Notes on Marginalia (in Turkish), among others. His field of interest includes Ottoman literature, allegory in literature, manuscript studies, book culture, Islamic aesthetics, and narratology.
Asad Q. Ahmed, PhD, Princeton University. He is currently associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz and Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic.
Esra Akın-Kıvanç, PhD, Ohio State University. She is currently teaching at the University of South Florida, School of Art and Art History. With Howard Crane, she coauthored Sinan’s Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-Century Texts. She is the author of Mustafa ‘Ali’s Epic Deeds of Artists: A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text About the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World. She is currently completing a monograph titled Muthanna: Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy.
Nikolay Antov, PhD, University of Chicago. He is currently assistant professor of premodern Islamic world history at the University of Arkansas. His main research field is early modern Ottoman history, with an emphasis on the formation of Muslim communities and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Ottoman Balkans.
Ata Anzali, PhD, Rice University. He is currently teaching at Middlebury College. He is the author of “Mysticism” in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept.
Tuna Artun, PhD, Princeton University. He is assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is currently completing his first book, Seal of the Sages: Alchemy and Natural Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1550–1650.
Abdurrahman Atçil, PhD, University of Chicago. He holds an assistant professorship in Arabic and Islamic studies at Queens College, City University of New York, and is a fellow of the Brain Circulation Scheme, of the European Research Council and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, at Istanbul Sehir University.
Zahit Atçıl, PhD, University of Chicago. He is currently teaching history at Istanbul Medeniyet University. His field of research includes Ottoman diplomatic and bureaucratic history in the early modern period.
Ahab Bdaiwi, PhD, University of Exeter. He is assistant professor at Leiden University, having previously taught at St. Andrews. He is the author of two forthcoming monographs on Timurid and Safavid intellectual traditions and philosophy, focusing the Dashtaki philosophers and Dawani. His research includes Arabic and Islamic philosophy, early medieval intellectual history, and Shiʿism.
Jake Benson is currently a doctoral candidate at Leiden University, and a graduate of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. A trained bookbinder and conservator, his primary focus is on the development of the Islamic codex, bookbinding, and decorated paper production, especially marbled papers. Recent essays include “The Art of Abri: Marbled Album Leaves, Drawings, and Paintings of the Deccan,” in Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy, edited by Navina Haidar and Marika Sardar, and “Satisfying an Appetite for Books: Innovation, Production, and Modernization in Later Islamic Bookbinding,” in Persian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, edited by Kamran Talatoff.
F. Betul Yavuz, PhD, Rice University. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University. Her research area includes the Bayrami-Malami Order in the Ottoman Empire, the study of religious traditions, and mysticism.
Sheila Blair, PhD, Harvard University. She is currently the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor for Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her publications include Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art and Islamic Calligraphy.
Arthur F. Buehler, PhD, Harvard University. He is senior lecturer emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is the author of Revealed Grace: The Juristic Sufism of Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624) and Recognizing Sufism: Contemplation in the Islamic Tradition. Presently, he is working on a biography of Fatima al-Zahra (as).
Hani Khafipour (editor), PhD, University of Chicago. A historian of medieval and early modern Middle East and Iran, he teaches courses on Middle East history and political thought at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles.
Rajeev Kinra, PhD, University of Chicago. He is currently associate professor of South Asian and global history at Northwestern University, where he specializes in the cultural and political history of early modern India, the Mughal Empire, and the larger Indo-Persian world. He most recent book, published in the “South Asia Across the Disciplines” series, is Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary.
Corinne Lefèvre, PhD, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Éditions, Paris. She is a research fellow at the Center for South Asian Studies. Her research deals with Mughal history. Recent publications include Pouvoir impérial et élites dans l’Inde moghole de Jahangir (1605–1627) and Cosmopolitismes en Asie du Sud: Sources, itinéraires, langues (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), coedited with I. G. Zupanov and J. Flores.
Paul Losensky, PhD, University of Chicago. He is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Welcoming Fighani: Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal and Farid ad-Din ‘Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis. His research focuses on Persian literature and culture of the early modern period, Persian biographical writing, and translation studies.
Rudi Matthee, PhD, UCLA. He is the John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Delaware. He is the author of four prize-winning monographs, most recently The Monetary History of Iran (2013, coauthored), and is the coeditor of another four books. He is the former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (2002–5 and 2008–11), serves as coeditor of Der Islam, and is a consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica. He is a two-time fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2002–3 and 2017.
Matthew Melvin-Koushki, PhD, Yale University. He is assistant professor of Islamic history at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and sociopolitical history with a focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Iran and the broader Persianate world.
Jane Mikkelson, PhD, University of Chicago. Her research encompasses Persian and Indo-Persian literature and intellectual history of the early modern Persianate world.
Maryam Moazzen holds two doctorates in humanities, one from the University of Tehran and the other from the University of Toronto in Islamic Studies. She is currently Associate professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Louisville. Her recent book, Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi‘i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran highlights her specialization in Shi‘i educational institutions as well as Islamic intellectual and cultural history.
A. Azfar Moin, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Moin currently teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam. His research interests include concepts and practices of sovereignty in the history of Islam from a comparative perspective.
Eva Orthmann, PhD, Halle University. She is a professor for Islamic studies at Bonn University. Her work focuses on the history of astrology in the Indo-Iranian and Islamic world. Her publications include “Court Culture and Cosmology in the Mughal Empire: Humayun and the Foundation of the Din-i Ilahi” in Albrecht Fuess and Jan-Peter Hartung's edited volume Politics and Patronage: Court Culture in the Muslim World, Seventh–Nineteenth Centuries.
Keelan Overton PhD, UCLA. She is a historian of Islamic art and independent scholar based in Santa Barbara, CA. Her primary research focuses on Iran, Central Asia, and India during the medieval and early modern periods, as well as cultural heritage preservation and revivalism in later Iran. Recent publications include “Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur, circa 1580–1630,” Muqarnas 33 (2016), and “Filming, Photographing and Purveying in ‘The New Iran’: The Legacy of Stephen H. Nyman, ca. 1937–42,” in Arthur Upham Pope and a New Survey of Persian Art (2016).
Sajjad Rizvi is associate professor of Islamic intellectual history at the University of Exeter. Trained as an intellectual historian at Oxford and Cambridge and has published widely on philosophy in the Safavid-Mughal and Qajar periods. His other research interest is Qurʾanic hermeneutics, and he is the author with Annabel Keeler of The Spirit and the Letter: Esoteric Interpretation of the Qurʾan. He is currently writing a book on philosophy in the eighteenth-century Persianate world.
Sholeh A. Quinn, PhD, University of Chicago. She is associate professor of history at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of Shah ‘Abbas: The King Who Refashioned Iran and Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles.
Audrey Truschke, PhD, Columbia University. She is currently teaching South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. Her field of research includes cross-cultural exchanges, historical memory, and imperial power.
Murat Umut Inan, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle. He is assistant professor of Ottoman and Turkish studies at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey. His research interests focus on literary, textual, and cultural relations and transmissions in the medieval and early modern Islamic world. He is the author of the forthcoming book Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Reception and Interpretation in the Ottoman Empire, 1400–1600.
Hüseyin Yılmaz, PhD, Harvard University. Hüseyin Yılmaz is currently an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History, and director of Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. He formerly taught at Stanford University and University of South Florida. As research fellow, he spent Spring 2010 at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. With focus on the early modern Middle East, his research interests include political thought, geographic imageries, social movements, and cultural history. His recent articles include “The Eastern Question and the Ottoman Empire: The Genesis of the Near and Middle East in the Nineteenth Century” and “From Serbestiyet to Hürriyet: Ottoman Statesmen and the Question of Freedom During the Late Enlightenment.” He is the author of Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought, published by Princeton University Press in 2018.
Taymiya R. Zaman, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently teaching Islamic history at the University of San Francisco. Her field of research is Mughal India, and her recent publications focus on historical memory and autobiography in South Asia.