Suleiman A. Mourad is the Myra M. Sampson Professor of Religion at Smith College (USA). His research and teaching focus on Islamic history, religious thought, and jihad in Islamic legal and scholarly traditions. His publications includeIbn ʿAsakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam in the Time of the Crusades(Oneworld2021), and The Mosaic of Islam (Verso 2016). He served as historical advisor and appeared on several film documentaries, includingJerusalem: City of Faith and Fury (CNN), and The Sultan and the Saint (PBS). He is also a regular op-ed writer on historical and current issues, and has a weekly column in 180Post.com (Lebanon).