Gabriel Martinez-Gros Editor

Gabriel Martinez-Gros is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Paris Nanterre. In 1999 he founded and co-directed the Institute for Islam and Islamic Societies Studies (in French, IISMM), the main Department of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes dedicated to Islamic Studies. He has published twelve books, four of them inspired by Ibn Khaldûn's thought. His most recent publication is La traîne des empires (2022). Anna Bailey Galietti is a translator and scholar of Arabic literature. Her previous translations of French academic writing on topics related to the Near East include Antoine Borrut's Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids.