Author Biography
Ignacio Sanchez obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2011. He has worked at the Cambridge University Library during 2010-2012, as part of the he team of the Oxford and Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online Project, and the Digital Library. Currently he has a postdoctoral research position at the Institute of Historical Sciences of the Humboldt University (Berlin), where he collaborates in an interdisciplinary project to write an encyclopedia of medieval endowments and charitable foundations. J.E. Montgomery is a Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. He studied Arabic and Ancient Greek at Glasgow University (1980-1984), spent two years at Oxford (1984-1986), where he was a Snell Exhibitioner at Balliol College before taking up a lectureship at Glasgow (1986-1992). Senior Lectureships at Oslo and Leeds preceded his move to Cambridge in 1997. His latest publication is Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
