Notes on Contributors

Ali Anooshahr

is a Professor of History at the University of California, Davis with a focus on comparative Islamic empires during the medieval and early modern periods. He is the author of Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires: A Study of Politics and Invented Traditions (Oxford, 2018), The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam: A Comparative Study of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Routledge, 2009), and is co-editor with Ebba Koch of The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan: Art, Architecture, Politics, Law and Literature (The Marg Foundation, 2019). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

Blain Auer

is professor and historian of Islam in South Asia at the Université de Lausanne. He is author of Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate (I.B.Tauris, 2012), The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India: In the Mirror of Kings (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Medieval Central and South Asia (DeGruyter, 2019). He is an editor for the journals Marginalia and Études asiatiques, as well as the Brill series Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia. He has also written numerous articles, chapters and encyclopaedia entries.

Shailendra Bhandare

is Assistant Keeper, South Asian and Far-eastern Numismatics and Paper Money Collections, at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Cross College and a member of Faculty of Oriental Studies. He started his career as a numismatist with a visiting fellowship at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of the Society for South Asian Studies, and worked as a curator in the British Museum on the coins of the later Mughals and the Indian princely states. He was appointed as Curator of Coins in the Ashmolean Museum in 2002. He holds a Masters degree in History and a PhD in Ancient Indian Culture awarded by the University of Mumbai.

Stephen Frederic Dale

is an Emeritus Professor of South Asian and Islamic History and Distinguished University Scholar at The Ohio State University, Columbus. His recent publications include: The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) (Brill, 2004); The Muslim Empire of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals (Cambridge, 2010) and The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man (Harvard, 2015).

Pınar Emiralioğlu

is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville. She completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 2006 and her first book, Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, was published by Ashgate in 2014. In it she explores the reasons for the flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman empire in the sixteenth century. Currently, she is working on her second book project, which investigates the close relationship between geographical knowledge and imperial politics in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. Pınar teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on World History, History of the Middle East, and the Ottoman empire. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction.

Suraiya Faroqhi

is a Professor of History at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. After studying at the University of Hamburg (Dr Phil.) and in Istanbul, as well as at Indiana University in Bloomington, she had a lengthy career at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, from 1971 to 1987, where she started as an instructor and ended up as a full professor. She then became a professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where she stayed until 2007. She then taught at Istanbul Bilgi University from 2007 until 2017. Her focus is on Ottoman social history, especially artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources and urban life, as well as cross-cultural linkages. Her most recent books are The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World (2019) and A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts (2016), both published by I.B.Tauris.

George Malagaris

is an historian of medieval Eurasia. He has been Research Fellow and Dean of Scholars at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Global History. He has recently completed a book on the medieval polymath Biruni and is preparing a study of Mahmud of Ghazna (d. 1030) in the context of Central Asian, Iranian and Indian history.

Richard Piran McClary

is a lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. He received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He has lectured extensively on the topic of medieval Islamic architecture around the world and has conducted fieldwork in India, Turkey, Central Asia and the Middle East. He held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh from 2015 to 2018, examining the surviving corpus of Qarakhanid architecture in Central Asia, and the resulting monograph was published in 2020. His monograph entitled Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220. The Patronage of Sultans was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2017, and he has published numerous articles and book chapters on the topic of medieval Islamic architecture and ceramics.

Sara Mondini

is a historian of Islamic and South Asian Art. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Indian Modern and Contemporary Art and South Asian Visual Culture at the Venice Ca’ Foscari University since 2009, and Adjunct Professor of Art and Civilization of the Islamic World at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology at the Polytechnic University of Milan since 2016. She holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Venice Ca’ Foscari University and has conducted extensive research on the artistic and architectural productions from South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. She has published several articles and chapters, and has presented her research at numerous international conferences. Her main field of research covers the Islamicate societies of South Asia and of other areas bounded by the Indian Ocean.

A.C.S. Peacock

is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His research focuses on the medieval and early modern history of the eastern Islamic world, and Islamic manuscripts. Major publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and, as editor, Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

Benedek Péri

is the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Head of the Department of Turkic Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research interests include various aspects of the history of Persianate literary traditions (Chaghatay, Persian, Ottoman, Türkī-yi ʿAjamī) with a special focus on the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, and the history of drug consumption in Persianate societies. His latest book, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was published in 2018. He is currently working on a critical edition of Yavuz Sultan Selim’s (r. 1512–1520) Persian divan.

Maya Petrovich

specialises in the history of the Islamic world. She holds degrees from Hamburg, Columbia and Princeton, and works with a large number of languages. She is currently a Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Maya has published two books of poetry in Bosnian and is preparing a monograph on mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.