Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Iranian History & Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal…

Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research covers the intellectual history of modern Islam, Sufism, Twelver Shiism and Muslim minorities in Europe. He is the author of Islam and the Baha’i…

Magnus Marsden is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Asia Centre at the University of Sussex. His publications in include Living Islam (Cambridge 2005), Trading Worlds (Oxford 2016) and Beyond the Silk Roads (Cambridge 2021). He is…