James Montgomery Author

James E. Montgomery is The Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at Fellow of Trinity Hall, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Anna Ayşe Akasoy is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her books include Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit. Die Sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sabʿīn (Brill, 2006), Islamic Crosspollinations. Interactions in the Medieval Middle East, edited with James Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann (Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007), Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Translation and Transmission in Honour of Hans Daiber, edited with Wim Raven (Brill, 2008) and Rashīd al-Dīn, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran, edited with Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (The Warburg Institute, 2013). Peter E. Pormann is a Wellcome Trust Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He studied in Paris (Sorbonne), Hamburg, Tübingen, and Leiden, and received a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He won The Hellenic Foundation’s 2003 Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom, in the Byzantine/Medieval History category, and is the author of The Oriental Tradition of Paul of Aegina’s ‘Pragmateia’ (2004).