• Project Director

    Adam Talib discovered the manuscript of Ibn al-Musalayah’s Collected Poems in July 2022. He will lead the project to edit and translate these poems so that they can be used by a wide range of scholars and students.

  • Dr Sam Wilder received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2019. He is currently revising his thesis “Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza” for publication.

  • The Project Team is advised by a panel of experts:

    Asad Ahmed

    Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

    Frank Griffel

    Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University

    Salam Rassi

    Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, The University of Edinburgh

    Vanessa van Renterghem

    Professeure des Universités, Département des Études arabes, INALCO (Paris)

    Deborah Tor

    Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame