Georg Christ
is Senior Lecturer and teaches Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. Before he worked as a Research Group Leader at Universität Heidelberg, Germany (2008–2012) and for the UN as a military observer and staff officer (2006–2008). His research focuses on the late medieval eastern Mediterranean and Veneto-Mamluk relations. He currently prepares a monograph on Venetian and Mamluk naval and commercial policies in the 14th century.
Kristof D’hulster
is a postdoctoral associate of the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University (Belgium); he was postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO) (2016–19), of the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Ghent University (2015–16) and on the ERC project “The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate” at Ghent University (2010–2014). He has a Ph.D. in Central-Asian Turkic linguistics. Working on processes of exchange and interaction within the Medieval Islamic world, he is currently engaged in Mamluk studies first and foremost, with a particular focus on the ethnic and linguistic dimensions to Mamluk identity. His articles have appeared in several international journals, including the Journal of Arabic Literature, the Annales Islamologiques, and History Compass. He has a forthcoming monograph (2020), Browsing through the Sultan’s Bookshelves. Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516).
Jan Dumolyn
is Senior Lecturer in medieval history in the Department of History and the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies at Ghent University. He has published widely on the social, political and cultural history of medieval Flanders and the Burgundian Netherlands, including, together with Andrew Brown and Peter Burke, Medieval Bruges, c. 850-c. 1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Albrecht Fuess
is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at the Philipps-University Marburg. He specializes in the history of the Middle East (13th–16th centuries) and the contemporary Muslim presence in Europe. Among his recent publications is, together with Stefan Rohdewald and
Dimitri J. Kastritsis
is Lecturer in Ottoman History at the University of St Andrews. His interests focus on the political, social and intellectual culture of the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. He is especially interested in historical texts and other narratives of the past. His publications include The Sons of Bayezid (Leiden: Brill, 2007) and An Early Ottoman History: The Oxford Anonymous Chronicle (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017).
Beatrice Forbes Manz
is Professor of History at Tufts University. She has published two books, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) and Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), along with numerous articles on ideology, historiography and political practice in the Mongol and Timurid periods. She is currently finishing a survey history of nomads in the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present for the Cambridge series, “Themes in Islamic History”. The next research project planned is a study of the Mongol conquest of Iran.
John L. Meloy
is Professor of History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut. His publications include: Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (Chicago: Center for Middle Eastern Studies/Middle East Documentation Center), re-issued in 2015 in a revised paperback edition; “‘Aggression in the Best of Lands’: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century”, in Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies, ed. F. Bauden and M. Dekkiche (Leiden: Brill, 2019); and “Mecca Entangled”, in The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History, ed. R. Amitai and S. Conermann (Bonn: Bonn University Press/V&R Unipress, 2019).
Jo Van Steenbergen
is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures and the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies at Ghent University. His publications include Order Out of Chaos. Patronage, Conflict, and Mamluk Socio-Political Culture. 741–784/1341–1382 (Brill, 2006); Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and
Patrick Wing
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Redlands. His research considers questions of state formation, political ideology and economic change across the regions dominated by the Mongols and the Sultanate of Cairo in the late medieval period. His book, The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2016. From 2010 to 2012 Wing was a post-doctoral researcher on the ERC project “The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate”, directed by Jo Van Steenbergen at Ghent University.