Acknowledgements
I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to all those who accompanied and supported me both morally and intellectually during my work on this book, above all, Prof. Stefan Schreiner, Prof. Eckehard Schulz and Prof. Lutz Edzard. I am also particularly thankful to Prof. Abdurraouf Oueslati for his readiness to accept this monograph in the Brill publication series.
My warm thanks goes out to my assistants Melisa Muminovic and Yaaqub Kutterer, for their support with the formatting as well as editing of the monograph. I am particularly grateful to all my colleagues whose valuable comments and intellectual impulses accompanied me throughout the process of editing and made me pause for thought in its final stages, even if all their suggestions could not be included in the final manuscript.
Mohammed Nekroumi
Erlangen, Spring 2023