About the Editors and Contributors xi JState University, San Luis Obispo. His Ph.D. in
ethnomusicology is from the University of Cal-
ifornia, Santa Barbara, with specializations in
Middle Eastern and American popular music.
He also has taught music at Pomona College
and the University of California, Santa Barbara,
taught Arabic at Santa Barbara City College,
and served as assistant to the director of the
Middlebury College Arabic School.
Aysha A. Hidayatullah is a Ph.D. candidate in
religious studies at the University of Califor-
nia, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation research
examines newly emerging forms of feminist
theology in Islam. She has written on a number
of topics concerning gender and sexuality in
Islam, including the life of Mary the Copt, the
prophet Muhammad’s Egyptian consort.
Josh Hoffman is a Ph.D. student at the Univer-
sity of California, Santa Barbara, where he
specializes in modern Middle Eastern history.
His fields of expertise also include premodern
Middle Eastern history, global/world history,
nationalism, political Islam, international
law, and human rights.
Shauna Huffaker is on the history faculty at the
University of Windsor, Canada. She holds an
M.A. from the School of Oriental and African
Studies in London and a Ph.D. from the Uni-
versity of California, Santa Barbara. Her spe-
cialization is in Islamic history, with a focus on
social history during the Middle Ages.
Amir Hussain holds a Ph.D. from the University
of Toronto. He is associate professor in the
Department of Theological Studies at Loyola
Marymount University. He specializes in the
study of Islam, with a focus on contemporary
Muslim societies. He is the author of Oil and
Water: Two Faiths, One God. His commentaries
and interviews on contemporary Islam have
appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New
York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
John Iskander is director of the Near East/North
Africa Division of Area Studies at the Foreign
Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State
in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic
studies from the University of California, Santa
Barbara. His research interests include medi-
eval Islamic history, Muslim-Christian rela-
tions, and modern Egyptian saints.
Linda G. Jones received a Ph.D. in the history
of religions from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, with a focus on medieval Islam
and Christianity in Spain and North Africa. She
has edited and coauthored (with Madeleine
Pelner Cosman) the Handbook to Life in the
Middle Ages. She is currently Juan de la Cierva
Researcher at the Spanish National Research
Council (Department of Medieval Studies) in
Barcelona, Spain.
Heather N. Keaney is an assistant professor
of history at American University in Cairo.
She received a Ph.D. from the University of
California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in
debates on religiopolitical legitimacy in Islamic
history and historiography. She has published
“The First Islamic Revolt in Mamluk Collec-
tive Memory: Ibn Bakr’s (d. 1340) Portrayal
of the Third Caliph Uthman” in Ideas, Images,
and Methods of Portrayal: Insights into Classical
Arabic Literature and Islam, edited by Sebastian
Gunther.
Jeffrey Kenney received a Ph.D. in religious stud-
ies from the University of California, Santa Bar-
bara. He is a specialist in Islam and the author
of Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of
Extremism in Egypt. He is currently a professor
at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
Ruqayya Yasmine Khan received a Ph.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania. She is a specialist
in Islamic studies. Her book Self and Secrecy
in Early Islam is forthcoming from the Univer-
sity of South Carolina Press (Studies in Com-
parative Religion). She is currently an associate
professor at Trinity University in San Antonio,
Texas.
Nuha N. N. Khoury is associate professor of the
history of art and architecture at the University