Notes on Contributors
Guillaume Dye is Professor of Islamic studies at the Free University of Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB). His main field of research is Qurʾānic and Early Islamic studies. He is co-founder and co-director of The Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Qurʾan and Islamic Origins. His publications include: Le Coran des historiens, edited with Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (3 volumes, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2019) and The Study of Islamic Origins, edited with Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, Isaac W. Oliver et Tommaso Tesei (Berlin, de Gruyter, 2021).
Daniela Gobetti is a photographer and bilingual poet, writing in both Italian and English. She holds a Ph.D in Political Science from Columbia University and previously taught in the Department of Political Science and managed the Center for Western European Studies at the University of Michigan.
Gottfried Hagen is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published widely on Ottoman cultural and intellectual history, with a long-standing focus on religion, historiography, cosmography, geography, and travel, including contributions to the History of Cartography VOLUME FOUR: Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the Cambridge History of Turkey, and the New Cambridge History of Islam (“Muslim Accounts of the Dār al-Ḥarb”, with Michael Bonner). He is the author of Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Kātib Çelebis Ǧihānnnümā, (Berlin, 2003), and the co-editor, with Robert Dankoff, of An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihannüma, translated by Gary Leiser, John Curry, Ferenc Csirkes (Leiden, 2021).
Eric J. Hanne is an Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University, specializing in medieval Islamic history. He is the author of Putting the Caliph in His Place: Power, Authority and the Late Abbasid Caliphate (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2007) and co-author of three chapters in Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (1998).
Robert Haug is Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati and author of The Eastern Frontier: The Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2019). His current project is a micro-historical study of the Arab conquest of Iran and Central Asia and the First and Second Fitnas through the career of military commander, governor, and rebel ʿAbdallāh b. Khāzim al-Sulamī. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (2010).
Steven Judd is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Southern Connecticut State University. He has published extensively on early Islamic law, Arabic historiography, and the history of Umayyad Syria. His publications include: Religious Scholars and the Umayyads: Piety-Minded Supporters of the Marwānid Caliphate (Routledge, 2013) and Abd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī, (Oneworld, 2019), New Perspectives on Ibn ʿAsākir in Islamic Historiography (co-edited with Jens Scheiner, Leiden, 2017), along with numerous articles and encylopedia entries. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (1997).
Rudi Paul Lindner is Professor Emeritus of History and Astronomy at the University of Michigan and the author of the books Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia (Indiana University Press, 1983) and Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory (University of Michigan Press, 2007).
Paul M. Love, Jr is Associate Professor of North African, Middle Eastern, and Islamic History at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. His research focuses on the history of Ibadi Muslim communities in northern Africa, with a special interest in Ibadi manuscript traditions. His publications include: Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition (Cambridge, 2018). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (2016).
David S. Powers is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cornell, where he has taught since 1979. His research focuses on the rise of Islam, and the history of Islamic law and its application in Muslim societies. He is the author of Studies in Qurʾan and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (California, 1986); Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300–1500 (Cambridge, 2002); Muhammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet (Pennsylvania, 2009); and Zayd (Pennsylvania, 2014). Powers is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Islamic Law and Society.
Kristina Richardson is the John L. Nau Professor of History and Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World (Oxford, 2012) and Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration (Bloomsbury, 2022), and she is currently preparing a monograph on the free and unfree African and Asian laborers in early Islamic Iraq. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (2008).
Karim Samji is Associate Professor of Medieval Near Eastern History at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Qurʾan: A Form-Critical History and his research focuses on genre history, theory, and criticism. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (2013).
John P. Turner is Associate Professor of Islamic History at Colby College. His research focuses on the intersection of political and religious authority and the effects of legitimation building on the development and application of law and of power. He is particularly focused on how those relate to charismatic authority and the attempts to legitimate power for the eighth-tenth century Caliph and the Caliphate. He is the author of Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in ʿAbbasid Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2013). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (2001).
Alison M. Vacca is the Gevork M. Avedissian Chair in Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia University and editor of al-ʿUsur al-Wusta: the Journal of Middle East Medievalists. Her work relies on Arabic and Armenian sources to study Umayyad and early ʿAbbasid Armenia and Caucasian Albania (modern Azerbaijan). Her first book, Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam: Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania (Cambridge, 2017), explores Sasanian legacy in the caliphal North. She has also completed a collaborative project to edit, translate, and comment upon an eighth-century Armenian history of the Caliphate. Her current project is about marriage, masculinity, and matriliny in the Near East from the late Sasanian to the early ʿAbbasid periods. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under Michael Bonner’s supervision (2013).
Paul E. Walker is currently Deputy Director for Academic Programs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of over a dozen books, among them Early Philosophical Shiism (Cambridge, 1993); Exploring an Islamic Empire (Bloomsbury, 2002); Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs (Bloomsbury, 2009), Caliph of Cairo: al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 996–1021 (AUC Press, 2009), plus The Advent of the Fatimids (I.B. Tauris, 2000) and most recently Affirming the Imamate: Early Fatimid Teachings in the Islamic West (I.B. Tauris, 2021) (both with W. Madelung). His current research focuses on popular ritual, social elites, governing institutions, and Ismaili doctrine in the Fatimid and Alamut periods.