Hakan Özkan, Ph.D. (2006), Université de Provence, is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Münster. He has published extensively on pre-modern Arabic literature. His most recent monograph is Geschichte des östlichen zaǧal (Ergon, 2020).Nefeli Papoutsakis, D.Phil. (2008), University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Münster. She has published extensively on pre-modern Arabic literature. Her most recent monograph is Classical Arabic Begging Poetry and Šakwā, 8th-12th centuries (Harrassowitz, 2017).