Contributors 287and Religious Authority in Modern Islam. Dr Zaman can be reached at: mzaman@
Princeton.edu
Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck
College, London University, and research associate of the London Middle
East Institute at SOAS. He has held visiting posts in Cairo, Istanbul, Berkeley
and Paris, and was visiting professor at the New York University Law School
in 2006. His work is on religion, culture, politics and law in the Middle East,
and on food and culture. His publications include Islam, the People and the State
(1993, reissued in 2009), Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (2001,
co-edited with Richard Tapper) and Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003). Dr
Zubaida can be contacted at [email protected].