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Patricia Skinner is Research Professor in Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. She is currently engaged on a long-term project tracing the history of medical and social responses to facial difference. Her book Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Donald R. Davis, Jr. is Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the history of law and religion in medieval India, especially the tradition known as Hindu law. His major publications include The Boundaries of Hindu Law: Tradition, Custom, and Politics in Medieval Kerala (CESMEO, 2004) and The Spirit of Hindu Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

David Waines is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at Lancaster University. He wrote the bestselling textbook 'An Introduction to Islam', now in its second edition, and edited a volume entitled 'Patterns of Everyday Life' in the Formation of the Classical Islamic World series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Jyoti Phulera is currently pursuing PhD research at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Having majored in history from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, she pursued her master’s in medieval Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her M.Phil. research looked at “Religion, State and Gender Relations in the Delhi Sultanate.” Her research interests include a history of gender relations in medieval north India, with special reference to the Sufic traditions ca. 1100–1500. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Dr Elena Woodacre

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Oya Dağlar Macar is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Commerce University, where she currently teaches. Previously, she was a post­doctoral fellow at Fort Hays State University (Hays, KS) and visiting scholar at Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, MA). Her research focuses on twentieth­century Ottoman political and medical history. Along with several articles and book chapters, she is the author of War, Epidemics, and Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: From the Balkan Wars through the Great War (1912-1918) (2008) and Balkan Savaşları’nda Salgın Hastalıklar ve Sağlık Hizmetleri (Epidemic Diseases and Health Services during the Balkan Wars (1912­1918)) (2009), as well as co­author of Rus Ordusu Türkiye’de (Russian Army in Turkey) (2010). She holds a PhD from Boğazici University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Jyoti Phulera is currently pursuing PhD research at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Having majored in history from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, she pursued her master’s in medieval Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her M.Phil. research looked at “Religion, State and Gender Relations in the Delhi Sultanate.” Her research interests include a history of gender relations in medieval north India, with special reference to the Sufic traditions ca. 1100–1500. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Lennart Bes is a historian and Indologist studying political culture at Indic courts. He recently submitted his PhD dissertation at the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), which concerns court politics in the south Indian Vijayanagara successor states. In the past he was employed at the Netherlands National Archives, where he worked on the records of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Currently he is teaching at Leiden University on the history of India and Southeast Asia, European expansion, and the VOC and its archives. He has published on early modern south Indian kingdoms, their contacts with the VOC, and Dutch records concerning SouthAsia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Maria Del Pilar Ryan

David Waines is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at Lancaster University. He wrote the bestselling textbook 'An Introduction to Islam', now in its second edition, and edited a volume entitled 'Patterns of Everyday Life' in the Formation of the Classical Islamic World series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Fabio Parasecoli