David Hollenberg , Ph.D. (2006, University of Pennsylvania), is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Oregon. He has published monographs, editions, and articles on Shii doctrinal literature such as Beyond the Qur'an: Early Ismaili ta'wil and the Secrets of the Prophets (University of South Carolina Press, 2016). Mushegh Asatryan , Ph.D. (2012, Yale), is Associate Professor of Arabic and Muslim Cultures at the University of Calgary. He has published on the history of medieval Islamic sectarianism, Shi'ism, and Nusayrism. He is the author of Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam: The Ghulat Muslims and their Beliefs (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), and, most recently, "The Emergence of Sunnism: When did the Sunnis Become a Sect?" .

"David Hollenberg and Mushegh Asatryan have made a major contribution to early Shīʿī and Nuṣayrī studies by having made accessible this important primary source." - Daniel De Smet, in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 33 (2025)