**About the Editors**

**Milad Milani** is a Senior Lecturer in religious studies at Western Sydney University. He specialises in the study of Sufism and Islam through a comparative religious studies lens. Dr Milani's research draws on Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology and more broadly on other thinkers such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche for analysis, paying special attention to how the history of religion is understood in present-day thinking about religion. A central part of his research concerns the phenomenon of "Persian Sufism" and "Sufi poiesis", with special reference to Attar of Nishapur. He is broadly interested in the ontology of Islam. Dr Milani is an internationally published academic and has authored three books on Sufism: The Nature of Sufism (Routledge 2021), Sufi Political Thought (Routledge 2018), and Sufism in the Secret History of Persia (Routledge 2014). He has one co-edited book: Islam, Civility and Political Culture (Palgrave Mcmillan 2020).

**Zahra Taheri** received her Master's degree in Persian studies from the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran, and her PH.D from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University Of California, Berkeley. She has taught Persian literature, language, Iranian history and culture, and Gender and culture courses in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and Australian National University. Dr Taheri is the author of Hozur-e peyda va penhan-e zan dar mutun-e sufiyyeh (2007), The Silence of Old Mirrors: The Lost Voice of a Muslim Woman in the Constitutional Revolution Era: The Life and Works of 'Alamtaj Qaem-Maqami (2012), and The Image of Women in Persian Ethical Texts (Forthcoming). Taheri is also a published poet with two collections of poetry: Milad and Pegaah-e Nokhostin. Her third book of poetry Daaman be Khaak Mikeshad Maah is in press with "Nashr-e Sales" in Iran.

**Aydogan Kars** is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne. His first book, *Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam* (Oxford University Press, 2019) was awarded a Special Mention of Excellence for the 2019 Alberigo Award by the European Academy of Religion. His coedited book, *(Umar al-Suhraward¯ı* (Brill, 2022), presents studies, editions, and English translations of the shorter Arabic and Persian treatises penned by (Umar al-Suhraward¯ı (1145–1234). While Aydogan has published broadly in religious studies, his publication record concentrates on medieval intellectual history, Sufism in particular.
