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xv Contributors A s m a A f s a r u d d i n is Professor of Islamic Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University (Bloomington). She is the author of The First Muslims: History and Memory and Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership as well as editor of Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiation of Female “Public” Space in Islamic/ate Societies; and coeditor of Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Essays in Honor of Georg Krotkoff (with Mathias Zahniser). M u z a f f a r A l a m is the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. His main publications include The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India; The Mughal State, 1526–1750 (edited with Sanjay Subrahmanyam); A European Experience of the Mughal Orient (with Seema Alavi); Languages of Political Islam: India 1200–1800; Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture (with Sanjay Subrahmanyam); and Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800 (with Sanjay Subrahmanyam). S a ï d A m i r A r j o m a n d is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and director of the Institute for Global Studies at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam; The Turban for the Crown; and After Khomeini; and editor of Constitutional Politics in the Middle East and the Journal of Persianate Studies. A z i z A l - A z m e h is university professor in the School of History at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). He is the author of Arabic Thought and Islamic Society; Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities; Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation; The Times of History : Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography; and Islams and Modernities. xvi • Contributors M e h r z a d B o r o u j e r d i is associate professor of political science and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University. He is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism and Essay on Iranian Politics and Identity (in Persian). C h a r l e s E . B u t t e r w o r t h is emeritus professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland College Park. He is coauthor of The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe and Between the State and Islam; and the editor/translator of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s “Categories” and “De Interpretatione”; Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s “Poetics”; Alfarabi: The Political Writings: “Selected Aphorisms” and Other Texts; and Averroes ’ Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory. R o x a n n e L . E u b e n is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism; Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge; and (with Muhammad Qasim Zaman) Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden. P e t e r G r a n is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760–1840; Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History; and The Rise of the Rich. Ş e r i f M a r d i n is emeritus professor of political science at Sabancı University (Istanbul, Turkey). He is the author of The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought; Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey; and Religion, Society, and Modernity in Turkey; and editor of Cultural Transitions in the Middle East. L o u i s e M a r l o w is professor of religion at Wellesley College. Her publications include Writers and Rulers: Perspectives from Abbasid to Safavid Times, coedited with Beatrice Gruendler; and Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought. B r u c e K . R u t h e r f o r d is associate professor of political science at Colgate University and director of the university’s Program in Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization. He is the author of Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World. [18.189.170...

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