Juan Pablo Arias-Torres is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Málaga (Spain). His academic work focuses primarily on the fields of History of Translation, Arabic manuscripts in Spain and the translation of the meaning of the Holly Qur´an and other religious arabic texts into Spanish.
Sussan Babaie is Reader in Islamic and Persian arts at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Before joining The Courtauld in 2013, she taught at Smith College, the University of Michigan, and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She has curated the exhibition 'Strolling in Isfahan' at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University, and installations of Islamic arts at Smith College and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Professor Burman is the Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Long engaged in interdisciplinary scholarship that blends history, theology, religious studies and literature, his research and teaching focuses on the intellectual and cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the medieval Mediterranean world.
Professor Elmarsafy came to King's after several years of teaching in the University of York's Department of English and Related Literature. Before that he taught at a number of universities in the USA (University of California, Riverside; Wellesley College; NYU) and has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at the Université Paris Nord – Paris 13 and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3.
Reinhold F. Glei, born 1959 in Remscheid/Germany, studied Classical and Medieval Latin and Greek Philology and Philosophy at the University of Cologne, where he got his Ph.D. in 1983. From 1984 to 1990, he was Research Assistant at the University of Bochum. In 1989, he gained a habilitation degree from Bochum. After several teaching positions at Düsseldorf, Göttingen and Bielefeld, he was appointed full professor of Classics at the University of Bielefeld.
Giovanni Pizzorusso (Lucca, April 16, 1958), graduated at the University of Pisa, PhD in History of the Americas at the University of Genoa, and has taught History of the Americas in early modern times as a contract professor (2003-2008) and researcher (2008-2017) at the Department of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences of the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, where since October 2017 he has been an associate professor of Early Modern History.
Gabriel Said Reynolds did his doctoral work at Yale University in Islamic Studies. Currently he researches the Qur'ān and Muslim/Christian relations and is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame. He is the author of 'The Qurʾan and the Bible' (Yale 2018), and 'Allah: God in the Qur’an' (Yale 2020), among other works.