Greg Fisher earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (2008) where he studied under the supervision of Averil Cameron; this thesis was examined by Fergus Millar and Robert Hoyland. His research interests focus on the Middle East in late antiquity (AD 200–800), particularly on the political impact of the Roman and Persian empires in the region’s frontier zones.

Dr. Thomas Barfield’s current research focuses on problems of political development in Afghanistan, particularly on systems of local governance and dispute resolution. He has also published extensively on contemporary and historic nomadic pastoral societies in Eurasia with a particular emphasis on politics and economy.

Jeg har en mastergrad i arabisk og religionshistorie fra Stockholms Universitet (1989), og doktorgrad i religionshistorie fra Uppsala Universitet (2001) med avhandlingen "The True New Testament: Sealing the Heart's Covenant in al-Tabari's History of the Messengers and the Kings." Min forskning handler om islam. Takket være en kollega som for mange år siden, varslet meg til den franske religionshistoriker , Michel de Certeau (d. 1986), har jeg blitt mer og mer fascinert av hvordan moderne akademia begrepsligjører 'religion' og sin egen relasjon med det som 'vitenskap'. Jeg prøver å utforske skjæringspunktene mellom 'religion' og akademisk og teoretisk tenkning, og hva disse skjæringspunktene innebærer for hvordan indvider og institusjoner begrepsligjører og 'behandler' religiøse mennesker, gjenstander og bevegelser.

Olga M. Davidson earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies. She is on the faculty of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston University, where she has served as Research Fellow since 2009. From 1992 to 1997, she was Chair of the Concentration in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Since 1999, she has been Chair of the Board, Ilex Foundation.

I am an Assistant Professor of Religion here at the University of Vermont. My specialization within the broad scope of the study of religion is Islam, with a particular regional focus on South Asia. My current research deals with issues of Muslim and Hindu religious identity, historiography, and the development of theories of religion. My research interests include South Asian Islam, Indo-Persian literature, Mughal Empire history, colonialism in South Asia, postcolonial theory, theories of religion, history of religion, religious identity formation, Sufism, and South Asian religions.

My research focuses on early and classical Islamic history, particularly the development of Sunni and Shi'i socio-religious boundaries in those periods. I am interested in the ways in which the construction of historical narratives reflect and influence the scope and meaning of cultural symbols related to gender, identity, and authority.

John C. Reeves (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Much of his work probes the margins of conventionally conceived categories, exploring the overlaps and commonalities discernible among a host of Near Eastern fringe groups and texts which inhabit the twilight realms of cosmic arcana, apocalyptic fervor, and religious dualism in late antiquity and the medieval era.

A. David Lewis is a Faculty Associate with MCPHS University and holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University. He is a founding member of Sacred & Sequential (a collection of scholars on comics and religion), co-editor of Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, and author of the Eisner Award-nominated American Comic Books, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife.

Liran Yadgar, a Postgraduate Associate at the Judaic Studies Program of Yale University and a PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago, studies the social and intellectual history of Jews and Muslims in the Medieval Islamic World. He is particularly interested in the history of Jews in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and Jewish-Muslim polemics. His dissertation, "The Judeo-Muslim Symbiosis Revisited: Jews and Muslims in the Later Middle Period (1200-1500 CE)," examines Jewish-Muslim intellectual exchange in three treatises from Egypt and the Maghrib.