Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, PhD. (1994), is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (University of Edinburgh). His monographs include Maqama (2002), The Last Pagans of Iraq (Brill, 2006), Khwadāynāmag (Brill, 2018) Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar, I (Brill, 2018), and Portrait of an Eight-Century Gentleman (Brill, 2020).