Sarah Bin Tyeer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East, South Asian and Africa Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Pre-modern Arabic Prose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Claire Gallien is Senior Lecturer in English at University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III. She is She is author of L'orient anglais (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment/Liverpool UP, 2011) and co-editor (with Ladan Niayesh) of Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period (New York: Palgrave, 2019). Jeffrey Einboden (Ph.D, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of American Literature at Northern Illinois University. His research has appeared in Translation and Literature, Milton Quarterly, Middle Eastern Literatures, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, and the co-translated The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (Fons Vitae, 2009). Einboden’s ‘The Genesis of Weltliteratur’ (Literature and Theology, 2005) was named one of the 100 seminal articles published by Oxford University Press during the past century.
