Jonas M. Elbousty is the Director of the Arabic Summer program at Yale University where he teaches Arabic Language and Literature in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He recently co-published Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition.

Muhammad Ali Aziz holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He taught at Princeton University and at the University of Michigan. He is currently the Arabic Program coordinator at Yale University where he teaches Arabic Language and Literature in the department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations. He is the author of Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam: Theology and Sufism in Yemen.

Introduction; Yemen; Saudi Arabia; Oman; United Arab Emirates; Bahrain; Qatar; Kuwait; Iraq; Syria; Lebanon; Jordan; Palestine; Egypt; Sudan; Libya; Tunisia; Algeria; Morocco; Mauritania.