Sharon V. Betcher is a freelance academic living on Whidbey Island, Washington, and Affiliate Professor of Theology, Research and Teaching Fellow, at Vancouver School of Theology. She is the author of two academic manuscripts, Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Fortress, 2007) and Spirit and...

Shaun Marmon is a specialist in the history of pre-modern Islamic societies with a focus on Egypt. Her published works include Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society and Slavery in the Islamic Middle East. She has a particular interest in the Mamluk period. Her research and teaching...