Ibn Qutaybah (d. 276/889) was a renowned judge and writer known for many influential works on a wide range of subjects, including Qur'anic exegesis, poetry and poetics, and statecraft.
Sarah Bowen Savant is Professor at The Aga Khan University, London, and the author of The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran.
Peter Webb is University Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Leiden. He is the author of Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam and an editor-translator of The Excellence of the Arabs.
Jack Weatherford is the former DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. He is best known for his book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
