Notes on Contributors

Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is professor of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia. Her books include Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336.

Patricia Crone is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; until her appointment there, she was university reader in Islamic history at Cambridge. She is the author of Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam; Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity; God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam; Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law; Pre-Industrial Societies; and (with Michael Cook) Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World.

Prasenjit Duara chairs the department of history, and is professor of history and East Asian languages and civilizations, at the University of Chicago. His books include Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China and Culture, Power, and the State: Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942, for which he received the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association of Asian Studies. He is also the editor of Decolonization: A Reader.

Clifford Geertz's books—which include The Interpretation of Cultures, Works and Lives, Local Knowledge, After the Fact, Available Light, Islam Observed, Negara, The Religion of Java, and Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society—have received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prize, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Sociological Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Philip Glotzbach has been president of Skidmore College since 2003. A philosopher of language and psychology, he formerly chaired the executive board of the American Conference of Academic Deans.

Alick Isaacs teaches medieval history and Jewish history at the Hebrew University and is a research fellow at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is associate editor of Common Knowledge for history, religion, and special projects and currently is writing a book about prophecy.

Lawrence Jones is a mutual funds analyst at Morningstar in Chicago and associate editor for research of Common Knowledge.

Endre Kukorelly's books of fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Hungarian and German. His best-known publications include two collections of poetry, A Herb Garden and i>HÖ.L.D.E.R.L.I.N, and the novel, Fairy Vale, or Riddles of the Heart of Man (from which the excerpt in this issue has been translated). He has been the editor or coeditor of three literary journals, including the Hungarian Lettre Internationale, and teaches creative writing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Tim Wilkinson is the translator of Éva Balázs's Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765–1800: An Experiment in Enlightened Absolutism, Domokos Kosáry's Hungary and International Politics in 1848–1849, Viktor Karády's The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era, and several works by Imre Kertész.

Ben Lerner is the author of two collections of poetry, The Lichtenberg Figures and (forthcoming) Angle of Yaw. He cofounded and coedits No: A Journal of the Arts.

Cason Lynley is assistant manager of the journals marketing department at Duke University Press.

Pankaj Mishra, recently a fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, and (in India) Outlook. His books include Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India, The Romantics: A Novel, and The End of Suffering: The Buddha in the World.

Sari Nusseibeh, currently the Rita E. Hauser Fellow in Philosophy at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, has been president of Al-Quds University since 1995 and holds...