Dr. Orhan Elmaz (Introduction) teaches Digital Humanities and classical and modern Arabic language, literature and culture at the University of St Andrews. His research area lies at the intersection of linguistics, intellectual history, and transcultural studies. He has published on theQur'an (and its use and abuse), computational and corpus linguistics, andOne Thousand and One Nights.Currently, he is workingon the emergence and development of feminist ideas, specifically female education, contrasting different Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority communitiesofthe Middle East, Europe and Central Asiain the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
J.K. Jackson (General Editor) has written, edited and contributed to over 20 books on mythology and folklore. Related works include studies of Babylonian creation myths, the philosophy of time and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature.