MCA Contributor Profiles

Najam Abbas is a researcher at the Central Asian Studies unit at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He previously worked in Tajikistan with the Aga Khan Humanities Project for Central Asia and with the University of Central Asia. He holds a doctorate from the Tajik National University.

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• موسوعة العمارة الفاطمية تأليف محمد عبد الستار عثمان [Encyclopaedia of Fatimid architecture, by Muhammad `Abd al-Sattar `Uthman] (2006)
• پاکستان کا ثقافتی انسائیکلوپیڈیا، جلد اوّل: شمالی علاہ جات [Cultural Encyclopaedia of the Northern Areas of Pakistan] (2005)

Rouhollah Amanimehr received his MA in Architectural Restoration in Tehran, Iran. He is currently a PhD Student in the Conservation of Monuments and Sites at the University of Seville, Spain. He is a member of ICOMOS. His research interests include the history and heritage of Andalus, the cultural heritage of the civilisations of Islamic nations, history of civilisations and religious architecture and traditions.

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• Breve Enciclopedia del Islam (2004)
• Enciclopedia del Islam (2004)

Leyla Amzi received her MA from New York University, department of Near Eastern Studies. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Her research interests include the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, migration, nationalism, Islam and Sufism.

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• Resimli Osmanlı tarihi ansiklopedisi (1958)

Victoria Arakelova received her PhD in Comparative Religious Studies at the Iranian Studies Department, Yerevan State University. She is now an Associate Professor at this department as well as Associate Editor for the journal "Iran and the Caucasus", BRILL and Leiden. Her main fields of study are comparative religious studies, social anthropology (Near-Eastern and Irano-Caucasian region), old Iranian religions, syncretic religious systems (Yezidism, Heterodox Shi'ism) and ethno-religious formations.

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• Ислам : краткий справочник (Islam : kratkii spravochnik) (1986)
• Ислам - энциклопедическйи словарь (Islam - entsiklopedicheskii slovar) (1991).

Mushegh Asatryan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. His research interests include the history of Shi’ism, with special emphasis on ‘extremist’ (ghulat) movements.

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• Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadīth 2007 (1988)

Dr Najeeb George Awad, theologian, is the Editor in Chief of Alnashra, the theological magazine of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon, and a part-time Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut. He received his BA in Theology from the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon, and his MA and PhD in Systematic Theology from King's College, London, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Colin Gunton, Dr Murray Rae and Dr Paul Janz. His research areas are Christian doctrine, systematic theology, historical theology, theology of religions and ontotheology.

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• Mu`jam a`lam al-`Arab al-Masihiyin fi al-`usur al-Islamiyah (2004)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (1995)
• Encyclopaedia of Qur'an (2001)

Zeynep Aygen is currently the Course Leader of the MSc Historic Building Conservation at the University of Portsmouth. She is an architectural historian and a restoration architect, who has dedicated her research in last years to invented identity issues in design history. Her recent work in this area includes editing a special issue for the Journal of Design History (Volume 20, Number 2/ 2007, Oxford University Press) with her lead paper A Ship Sailing East with Its Voyagers Traveling West.

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• The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the Middle East and North Africa (1988)
• The Cities of the Middle East and North Africa (2006)

Sevilay Z. Aksoy received her PhD in Middle East Politics from the University of Exeter, UK. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of International Relations at Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey. Her areas of expertise and research interests include Middle East Politics, Turkey-EU and Turkey-Middle East relations and theories of international relations.

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• 1919'dan günümüze Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihi ansiklopedisi (1994)

Özlem Berk Albachten holds a BA in Italian Language and Literature (Istanbul University), an MA and PhD in Translation Studies (University of Warwick, UK) She is an associate professor of translation studies at Mugla University in Turkey. Her areas of research include history of translation in Turkey, translation and identity formation, intralingual translations, Turkish literature in translation, and travel writing.

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• Türk dünyasi edebiyatcilari ansiklopedisi (2002).

Ayça Alemdaroglu is a PhD candidate in Sociology at University of Cambridge and a visiting scholar at the New York University. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on socio-cultural change across social classes in Turkey.

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• Yeni Türkiye Ansiklopedisi (1960)

Rasha Ali received an MA in Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo and an MA in Islamic archaeology at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. She received her PhD in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne. She is a member of CNRS (Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique: UMR 8084: Islam medieval), DIWAN (Association of Arab/Islamic studies in French universities) and SPARC (NGO for urban conservation and restoration of Egyptian architectural heritage). Rasha Ali is also a reviewer in Histara les comptes-rendues [scientific book reviews of Archaeology, Art History, Aesthetics and Archeometry].

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• Mawsu`at al-`imarah al-Islamiyah: Arabi-Faransi-Inkilizi
• Abd al-Rahim Ghalib (1988)
• Dictionnaire de l'Islam: religion et civilization (1997)

Aurang Zeb Azmi received his MA and PhD in Arabic from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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• Al-Mawsu'ah al-Qur'aniyah al-muyassarah (1974)
• Al-mawsu`ah al-muyassarah fi al-adyan (1989)

Morteza Baharloo is both a pharmacologist and an independent scholar of Iranian history and civilisation (specifically the Turko-Iranian tribal discourses). His first historical novel, The Quince Seed Potion was released in 2004. Awaiting publication, he has completed Shredded Robes of Honor about the history and symbolism of textile and apparel in Iran. Kettledrums, Sticks, Buffoons and Dancers is to follow, about music, entertainment and pastime in bucolic-tribal Iran.

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• Hobson-Jobson: a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive (1995)
• Farhang-i Saazha (A Dictionary of Musical Instruments) (1998)

Samet Bagce received both his graduate degrees in the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics (LSE). His PhD thesis was Philosophy of Geometry and Its Relevance to Philosophy of Science: A Historical-cum-Methodological Approach and his MSc was in Kant's Theory of Space and Geometry in the Critique of Pure Reason.

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• Felsefe ansiklopedisi (2003)

Peri Bearman is Associate Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. She has also been an editor and member of the Executive Committee of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition.

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• الموسوعة العربية العالمية [World Arab Encyclopaedia] (1996)

Murteza Bedir is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology at Sakarya University, Turkey. He received his BA from Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, and LLM from the University of London, SOAS. He obtained his PhD from Manchester University. His research interests include Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), legal history of the medieval Muslim societies from 8th to 14th centuries, the institution of waqf (charitable endowment) and the fatwa literature of Central Asia (10th - 13th centuries).

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• Encyclopaedia of Islamic law (2006)

Aylin Besiryan is PhD candidate at Bogaziçi University & EHESS, History Department. She received her Master's degree from Bogaziçi University with her thesis entitled "Hopes of Secularization in the Ottoman Empire: the Armenian National Constitution and the Armenian Newspaper Masis, 1856-1863". She is currently working on the First Constitutional Period in the Ottoman Empire and the contribution of the Ottoman Armenian intelligentsia to the modernisation of the society.

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• Yurt Ansiklopedisi (1981-1984), Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e Türkiye Ansiklopedisi (1985).

Biswajit Chanda is Project Assistant (Bangladesh and Bengali language) at AKU-ISMC and Researcher, School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

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• Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2003)
• জেন্ডার বিশ্বকোষ [Gender Encyclopaedia](2006)
• সংক্ষিপ্ত ইসলামী বিশ্বকোষ ইসলামী [Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam] (1986-87)

Peter Colvin is Librarian for Islamic Middle East Studies and Faculty Librarian (languages and cultures), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also Secretary of the UK Middle East Libraries Committee (MELCOM-UK).

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• Türkiye Diyanet Vakfi Islam Ansiklopedisi [TDV Encyclopaedia of Islam] (1986-)

Farshid Delshad undertook his first degree in Persian and Arabic literature and his doctorate in Caucasian and Slavic studies at the University of Tbilisi, Georgia. His research interests include comparative linguistics and literature. He specialises in ancient and modern Iranian, Semitic and Caucasian languages.

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• Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (1996).

Bruno De Nicola obtained his BA in History at the University of Barcelona (Spain), and his MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS (University of London). He is currently a PhD Candidate in Persian Studies at the University of Cambridge and his field of research is the History of Medieval Islamic World and Central Asia. He is currently working on the role of women in Iran and Central Asia under Mongol rule.

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• Enciclopedia de Al Andalus (2002)

Andrea Duranti is a PhD candidate in History of Asia and Africa at the University of Cagliari, Italy and is working on a research project focusing on the history and culture of the Iranian Diaspora from 1811 to today. He has a BA in Political Science and a MA in International Relations, both of which were received at the University of Cagliari. He is the author of several essays on contemporary Iranian thinking and literature.

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• Dizionario dell'Islam (2005)

Saeid Edalatnejad is an active member of the Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation. He is the Editor in Chief of the scholarly journal Hawzeh and of University Quarterly from 1993 - 1997.

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• معارف و معاريف : مصطفى حسينى دشتى[Sacred information and general knowledge] (2000)
• نامهء دانشوران ناصری [Book of scholars of the time of Nasir al-Din Shah] (1960)
• شرح حال رجال ايران [ Biographies of men of Iran] (2005)

Süer Eker is Assistant Professor at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature of Faculty of Science and Letters at Baskent University (Ankara, Turkey). His main fields of study are Turkish grammar, historical and contemporary Turkic languages.

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• Türk ansiklopedisi (1943-84), Türkler (2002)
• Hayat ansiklopedisi (1961-63), Meydan Larousse: Büyük Lûgat ve Ansiklopedi (1990-91).

Teyfur Erdogdu received his MA in Political Science at the University of Istanbul and his PhD in History at the University of Hacettepe. He has taught Ottoman history at various universities and his interests include architecture, history and cities of the Turkish Empire.

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• Küçük Türk Islâm ansiklopedisi: Türk-Islâmi âlemi tarih, cografya, etnografya, ve biyografya lugat" (1974)

Kambiz Eslami is a Librarian at Princeton University Library.

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• دائرة المعارف بزرگ اسلامى [Dāʾirat al-maʻārif-i buzurg-i Islāmī]
•   زير نظر كاظم موسوى بجنوردى [ zīr-i naẓar-i Kāẓim Mūsavī Bujnūrdī ].

Armin Eschraghi was born in Isfahan and raised in Germany. He received his Master's degree in 1999 in Middle Eastern Studies and a PhD in Islamic Studies in 2004. Currently, he teaches Persian literature and Islamic Studies at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. His main areas of research include Qur'anic Studies, Sufism, Shiism and modern religious developments in Iran.

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• Daneshnameye Quran va Quran pizhuhi (1996)

S. M. Ghazanfar received his BA, MSc, and PhD from Washington State University. He has been a faculty member at the University of Idaho faculty from 1968-2002 (currently emeritus faculty member). He has written many publications on the links between Islam and the West with a particular focus on the transmission of socio-economic thought. He has written four books, the most recent of which is Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the 'Gap' in European Economics.

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• The New Encyclopedia of Islam (2001)

Bilal Gokkir received his MA and PhD in Islamic Studies at Manchester University. He is currently a lecturer teaching Islamic and Qur'anic Studies at Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta, Turkey. His research interests include Islamic and Qur'anic Studies: classical and modern approaches.

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• Kur'an Ansiklopedisi (1997)
• Şâmil İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2006)
• İslam Alimleri Ansiklopedisi (1986)
• Müslüman İlim Öncüleri Ansiklopedisi (1984)

Muhammet Gunaydin is an Arabist at Istanbul University in Turkey. He received his MA in Islamic Philosophy from Maramara University in Istanbul, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, in ‘Language-Logic Relationship’ in Arabic Linguistic Tradition. His research interests include the grammatical thinking of al-Sirafi and Sibawayhi, the literary and political periodicals in modern Arabic Literature and the theories of translation. Currently, in addition to his teaching activity at the Faculty of Theology, he is working on a translation of al-Muwaylihi’s Ma Hunalik into Turkish.

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• Islam Ansiklopedisi Indeksi (1994)
• Tertîbü’l-A‘lâm ‘ale’l-a‘vâm (1990)

Mulaika Hijjas is from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was educated at Harvard and Oxford. She completed a PhD on 19th century Malay narrative poetry by women, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2007. Her research focuses on secular writing and gender in the Malay literary tradition. She is also a fiction writer, and was the 2006 David T.K. Wong Fellow in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

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• Encyclopedia of Malaysia (1998).

Yasmin Hilloowala received her PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona. She is currently the Norma Jean Calderwood Intern in the Islamic and Later Indian Art Department at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University. Her research interests include medieval Islamic history and art with particular interest in Spain and North Africa, and Palestinian history and culture.

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• E.J. Brill’s First Encyclopaedia of Islam (1993)

Vivian Ibrahim is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She is currently finalising her thesis on Coptic communal mobilisation in Egypt in the twentieth century. She is also review and features editor for the refereed journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.

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• Coptic Encyclopedia (1991)

Arif Jamal is Senior Instructor (part-time) at AKU-ISMC. From 2003 to 2004 was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He has also been a tutor in law at University College London (UCL) and the School of Law at SOAS. His publications have appeared in the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. He is currently undertaking doctoral work on the relationship between religion, the state and the public sphere in Muslim contexts in the Faculty of Laws at UCL.

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• Encyclopaedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Law Schools / adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar; introduction by Kevin Reinhart. (1996)

Shamsiddin Kamoliddin received his doctorate in history. He is currently a professor and the leading research fellow at the Institute of History of Uzbekistan, Academy of Sciences.

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• Ўзбекистон миллий энциклопедияси (Ŭzbekiston milliĭėntsiklopediiasi) (2000-2005).

Burcu Karahan holds a BA in ELT (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) and an MA in Turkish Literature (Bilkent University, Ankara). Currently she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She is working on interaction between Western and Turkish novels, and male character formation in early Turkish novels.

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• İslâm ansiklopedisi - İslâm âlemi tarih, coğrafya, etnografya ve biyografya lûgati ( 1950-1986)
• Ansiklopedik halk edebiyatı terimleri sözlüğü (2004)
• Halk kültürü ve edebiyat sözlüğü (2005) 

Hakan T. Karateke received his PhD in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany in 1998. Since 2002, Dr Karateke has been Preceptor in modern Turkish Language at Harvard University within the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

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• Osmanlı ansiklopedisi: tarih, medeniyet, kültür / genel yayın yönetmeni: Bekir Şahin. The Ottoman Encyclopaedia: History, Civilisation, Culture. (1996-1999)

Hamid Keshmirshekan, artist and art historian, is a Barakat Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford.

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• دانشنامه هنرمندان ایران و جهان اسلام[ Encyclopaedia of Artists of Iran & the world of Islam ] (2001)

Huda al-Khaizaran  holds a doctorate from the Institute of Education, University of London, and has worked as a teacher, translator and interpreter in Japanese, English and Arabic.

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• ヒンドゥー敎とイスラム敎 : 荒松雄 . 荒松雄著 [Hinduism and Islam, by Matsuo Ara] (1977)
• イスラーム世界事典 [Encyclopaedia of the Modern Islamic World] (2002)
• 回教から見た中国 : 張承志 [China as viewed through Islam, by Ch'eng-chih Chang] (1993)

Timur Kocaoglu is Associate Professor of Central Asian Studies at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his BA in Central Asian Literature at Istanbul University and his PhD in Central Asian Cultural History at Columbia University.

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• Татар энциклопедия с ү злеге (Tatarėntsiklopediia suzlege) (2002)

Engin Kilic received his BA degree in Turkish Language and Literature at Bogazici University and his MA degree in Cultural Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is currently a PhD candidate in Turkish Studies at Leiden University and an instructor of modern Turkish literature at Sabanci University. His research interests include late nineteenth to early twentieth century Ottoman Turkish literature and cultural history with a focus on nationalist and utopian literature.

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• Türk edebiyati ansiklopedisi (1990)

Karen A. Leal received her BA in the Classics and her MA and PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She  was recently appointed Managing Editor for Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, published by the Aga Khan Program at Harvard. Her research focuses on the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman and European cross-cultural exchange, and the effects of the Greco-Roman tradition on Ottoman culture. 

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• Turk (2002)

Mohammad Mehdi Mojahedi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Mofid University, Qom, and was a post-doctoral scholar at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

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• داریوش آشوری / دانشنامه سیاسی [ Political Encyclopaedia, by Dariyush Ashuri ] (1987-2006)

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov received his PhD in Religious Studies (Islam) at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, November 2007. His dissertation title was "The Study of the Early Hurufi Texts: the Foundational Work of Fadlallah Astarabadi". He received his Master of Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University in 1991. His fields of expertise and research interests include Religious minorities and "heterodox" movements in Islam in the late medieval and the modern period, the role of religious minorities in the history of Iran and Turkey and Hurufis; their history, doctrines, texts and political strategies.

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• Azarbaycan Xalq Cümhuriyyati Ensiklopediyasi (2004-2005)

David Motadel is a graduate student at Pembroke College, Cambridge, working towards a PhD in history. He studied history and economics in Freiburg and Basel, before completing his MPhil in Historical Studies at Cambridge in 2006. David’s current PhD research concerns the Muslim community in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Apart from his studies, David works regularly as an advisor for Middle Eastern affairs and as a freelance writer for Der Spiegel. David has been awarded the 2007 Essay Prize of the German History Society and the Royal Historical Society.

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• Islam in der Gegenwart (2005)

Musdah Mulia is a Research Professor at The Indonesian Institute of Sciences and a lecturer on Islamic political thought at the School of Graduate Studies of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. She is the Chairperson of the Indonesian Conference on Religion for Peace, an NGO which promotes interfaith dialogue, pluralism and democracy. She is also an activist on Human Rights and Gender issues. She has received the International Women of Courage Award from the US Government (2007) for her outstanding contribution to the development of moderate Islam and the promotion of democracy and human rights in Indonesia.

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• Ensiklopedi tematis dunia Islam (2002)

Emma C. Murphy is a Professor at the University of Durham; FRSA, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics, Economy and political liberalisation in North Africa, and Political economy of Israel and the Occupied Territories.

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• Encyclopaedia of the Palestinians/edited by Philip Mattar (2000)

Claire Norton has a PhD in Ottoman History from the University of Birmingham. She is currently a lecturer in history at St Mary's University College where she predominantly teaches Islamic history. Her research interests include the construction of identity, cultural transfer and inter-faith interaction in politically and culturally liminal areas and border zones; Ottoman literacy practices, conversion to Islam and the identity of the 'renegade', representations of war and conflict in the Islamic world, and the role of the nation state in contemporary historical imaginings.

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• Cumhuriyet do ̈nemi Tu ̈rkiye ansiklopedisi (1985)

Zeynep Oguz received a BA in architecture from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and earned her MA from the Department of History of Architecture at the same university. She is currently at the PhD Program in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard. She is an Aga Khan fellow studying Islamic art and architecture, with a focus on the history of Ottoman urbanism.

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• Ansiklopedik Mimarlik Sozlugu (1998)

Thomas Pierret is a PhD Candidate in Political Science, Aspirant du Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique (FNRS), Université Catholique de Louvain – CISMOC, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris – CERI.

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• Tarikh ‘ulama’ Dimashq fi al-qarn al-rabi‘ ‘ashar al-hijri (1986-1991)
• Mu‘jam al-usar wal-a‘lam al-dimashqiyya (2003)
• Dhayl al-a‘lam (1998-2002)

Harith Bin Ramli completed a Masters degree at Oxford in Medieval Arabic Thought. He is currently a PhD student at Oxford University, where he is researching a 4th/10th century mystical text, the Qut al-qulub by Abu Talib al-Makki. Wider interests include the intellectual and social history of the Buyid period, and the development of Islamic thought in the Malay world.

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• Ensiklopedia Malaysiana (1996)

Mohd. Zariat Abdul Rani is currently a lecturer at Department of Malay Language, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. His teaching and research interests include literary theory and criticism, rhetoric of fiction and Islamic literature, especially the indigenous Islamic literary concept known as Persuratan Baru (Genuine Literature). He publishes in both Malay and English.

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• Pendidikan estetika daripada pendekatan Tauhid / Aesthetic Education: An approach based on Tawhid. Mohd. Affandi Hassan. (1993)

Peter Riddell is Dean of the BCV Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths in Melbourne, Australia. He took his PhD on Islam in Southeast Asia at the Australian National University. He has previously taught at the ANU, the Institut Pertanian Bogor (Indonesia), the London School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Theology. He has published widely on the study of Southeast Asia, Islam and Christian-Muslim relations.

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• Ensiklopedi populer politik pembangunan Pancasila ([1983]-c1984)
• Ensiklopedia Indonesia (1954-56)

Andrew Rippin is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from McGill University (1981) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices (Routledge) which appeared in its 3rd edition in 2005, and some of his scholarly articles are gathered in The Qur'an and its interpretative tradition (Variorum/Ashgate, 2001). He specialises in the history of tafsir.

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• Encyclopaedia Holy Qur'an (2006)
• Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey (1984)
• Islamic Desk Reference (1994)

Arshad Rizvi has a PhD in social sciences with particular interest in constitutional history.

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• The Islamic World: Past and Present (2004)

Philip Sadgrove is the head of Middle Eastern Studies since 2004 at University of Manchester. Research interests focus on modern Arabic literature, the Nahdah, Arab journalism, and Arabic drama.

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• الأعلام الشرقية في المئة الرابعة عشرة الهجرية [ al-A‘lām al-Sharqīyah fī al-mi'ah al-rābi‘ ‘asharah al-Hijrīyah ]  /   (Notable Men of the East in the 14th century H.) مجاهد, زكي محمّد [ Mujāhid, Zakī Muhammad ]  (1994)

Samah Selim is a scholar and translator of modern Arabic literature. She received her PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia and Princeton Universities. Her book, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt 1880-1985 was published by Routledge Press in 2004. Her current research focuses on translation and popular fiction in Egypt at the turn of the 19th century. Her most recent literary translation is Yahya Tahir Abdallah’s The Collar and the Bracelet (AUC Press, 2006). She is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Provence in France.

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• A'lam al-adab al-'arabi al-mu'asir (1996)

Ayman Shihadeh is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Research interests include Arabic philosophy, Islamic theology, and ethical theory in Islam.

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• The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy / edited by Oliver Leaman. (2006)

Mitra Shavarini currently teaches "Diversity of Muslim Women's Experiences" at Brandeis University. Her area of research concerns women's education in Muslim societies. In her most recent publication, Western Procedures, Eastern protocols: Conducting Research in Western-Wary Iran, she explores the dilemmas she has confronted in studying this topic. Shavarini is also the co-author of Women & Education in Iran and Afghanistan: An Annotated Bibliography. She holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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• Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (2003)

Iván Szántó is Lecturer of Islamic Art in the Department of Iranian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE). He has an MA in Art History (2002, ELTE) and an MA in Iranian Studies (2003, ELTE). His research interests and publications focus on various aspects of Islamic visual arts, in particular the artistic connections and interchanges between Early Modern Iran, Eastern Europe, and the frontier areas between them.

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• Encyclopaedia of Islam (2006)

Kamran Talattof received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies, Persian language and literature in 1996 from The University of Michigan. Dr Talattof's work focuses on Persian literature and Iranian culture. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at The University of Arizona.

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• دانشنامۀ كوچك ايران: اساطير, تاريخ, جغرافيا و نامداران علم و ادب ايران [ Dānishnāmah-'i kūchak-i Īrān: asāṭīr, tārīkh, jughrāfiyā va nāmdārān-i ʻilm va adab-i Īrān ]
• تأليف ژاله متحدين ؛ با ويراستارى محمد جعفر محجوب [ ta'līf-i Zhālah Muttahidīn; bā vīrāstārī-i Muhammad Jaʻfar Mahjūb ]. Short Encyclopedia of Iran. (١٣٨۱ [2002])

Feryal Tansug received her BA in Sociology from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and her MA in History at Bilkent University. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. Her major area of study is 19th century Ottoman History and history of the Turkish Republic in the early 20th century and she is specifically interested in the economic and social-cultural relations among the various ethno-religious communities of the Empire. Her dissertation covered Greek-Turkish Communal Relations in Smyrna/Izmir between 1826 and 1864. She also deals with urban histories of the port cities in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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• Baslangicindan Zamanimiza Kadar Büyük Türkiye Tarihi (1977)
• Tanzimat’tan Bugüne Edebiyatçilar Ansiklopedisi (2003)
• Türk Aile Ansiklopedisi (1991)

Filiz Adiguzel Toprak received her PhD in Ottoman Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey in 2007. Since 2002, Dr Toprak has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Traditional Turkish Arts, and conducting courses on Ottoman miniature painting and the history of Ottoman arts. Her research interests include the relationship between state power and artistic production; art patronage and the production of illustrated manuscripts at the 16th-17th century Ottoman court.

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• Eski eserler ansiklopedisi (1977)

Evangelos Venetis completed his first degree in history at the University of Ioannina, Greece and his PhD in Islamic and Iranian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include Graeco-Iranian Studies, medieval Persian literature and the figure of Alexander the Great in Persian sources.

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• Encyclopaedia of the Islamic world (1991)
• Encyclopaedia of Islamic medicine, with a Greco-Roman back-ground (1975), Encyclopædia Iranica (1992)

Arnoud Vrolijk is Curator of Oriental Collections at Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. He holds a doctorate from the same university. Research interests focus on Arabic “Adab” literature from the Mamluk period

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• Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature / edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey. (1998)

Raden Cecep Lukman Yasin is a lecturer within the Islamic law faculty at Islamic State University, Malang, Indonesia. He completed his first Master’s degree in Islamic Studies from Leiden University, and the second in Near Eastern Studies from Washington University. His writing and research mostly deal with Islamic legal development and Islamic contemporary movement in Indonesia. Beside teaching subjects on Islamic law, he is also active in translating books relating to Islamic thought and culture. His current project is compiling Indonesian customary laws on marriage and divorce.

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• Ensiklopedia Hukum Adat Dan Adat Budaya Indonesia (1977)

Galina Yemelianova received her PhD in Arab and Islamic studies from Moscow State University in 1985. Dr Galina specialises in history and contemporary ethno-political and religious issues in the Middle East and the Muslim regions of the Russian/Soviet Empire and post-Soviet Russia. She is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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• Ислам на территории бывшей Росийской империи: - єнциклопедический словарь [Islam na territorii byvsheĭ Rossiĭskoĭ imperii: ėntsiklopedicheskiĭ slovar'] Islam in the Former Russian Empire: Encyclopaedic Lexicon  / ред. С.М. Прозоров [ed. S. M. Prozorov] (1998-2003)

İbrahim Yerebakan received both his BA and MA from the Ataturk University Department of English Language and Literature. He received his PhD in Contemporary English Theatre from the University of Hull, United Kingdom and was promoted to Associate Professorship in 1997 and Full Professorship in 2003. He now teaches English dramatic literature for both graduates and undergraduates at the English Department of Ataturk University. He has published a number of articles in national and international scholarly and refereed journals on subjects ranging from English Theatre to traditional Turkish theatre.

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• Tiyatro Ansiklopedisi (1995)

Aron Zysow is a Research Associate, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard University.

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• الموسوعة الفقهية [ Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence ] (2004-06)