Topics and themes considered by the series

Geographical scope	Global
Chronological scope	7th-15th centuries CE (1st-9th centuries AH)
Keywords	al-Andalus; medieval Islam; cultural exchange; Middle Eastern history – 7th-15th centuries

Editorial Contact

Series Editors 

Pernilla Myrne

My dissertation, Narrative, Gender and Authority in ʿAbbāsid Literature on Women, examines narrative structures in biographies on women from the ninth and tenth centuries. It deals with constructions of hierarchy and representation of women’s agency, and how they relate to genre in early Arabic literature.
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Bio and Image from: http://gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xmyrpe

Lisa Nielson

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Timothy May

Dr. Timothy May is a specialist in the Mongol Empire and nomadic empires in general. He is the author and co-author of four books and numerous other publications. He is currently Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and writing a history of the Mongol Empire.
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More information: http://ung.edu/college-of-arts-and-letters/faculty-staff-bio/timothy-may.php

Uriel Simonsohn

Uriel Simonsohn is a historian of religions and societies. His research focuses on the three monotheistic religions in the Near East and Mediterranean Basin from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages. In his book A Common Justice (2011), which deals with the lives of Rabbanite Jews and Eastern Christians in the early Islamic period, he attempts to present a more nuanced and untidy picture of what has often been depicted in modern scholarship as a social setting neatly carved along religious lines. The legal-anthropological paradigm of “legal pluralism” allows him to interpret the exhortations of Rabbanite and ecclesiastical leaders against extra-confessional litigation in the context of highly complex arrangements of social commitments. These commitments, he argues, went far beyond the confinements of religious communities.
At present, he continues to explore interfaith encounters through two main research projects, one concerning the process of conversion to Islam in the early Islamic period, and the other focused on the phenomenon of religiously-mixed families. In both pursuits he seeks to cast light on the passage of peoples and ideas from one religious circle to another while describing the social context that facilitated this passage.
In the context of these persuits, he is a member of the I Core Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters,based at Ben Gurion University.
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Andrew Peacock

Medieval and early modern Middle Eastern and Islamic history, especially the history of Iran, Anatolia, the Caucasus and Central Asia up to the seventeenth century; Arabic and Persian historiography and manuscripts; history of the Indian Ocean region.
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More information: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/andrewpeacock.html