Markus RitterMarkus Ritter, Professor History of Islamic Art, Department of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria. Doctorate (2003) on nineteenth-century religious building in Iran, taught as lecturer and professor at universities in Bamberg, Frankfurt am Man, and Zurich. Works on art and architecture of the Medieval to Pre-modern periods in the Persian and Arabic speaking regions of Islamic Western Asia. Publications include monographs on Persian architecture, on Early Islamic Arab palace building, Medieval book art of the Qur'an, articles on different media in Medieval Islamic art, on its European reception, and several edited volumes. Ilse Sturkenboom, Lecturer Iranian Islamic Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Doctorate (2016) on illustrated manuscripts of Attar's mystical poem Mantiq al-Tayr. She currently prepares a monograph publication on the subject and a book chapter on the visual representation of Alexander the Great in the Islamic world, and did publish articles and book chapters on Persian arts of the book, Islamic metalwork, and architecture. Read More Read Less