Mounah A. Khouri was Professor of Arabic, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkley and the author of Poetry and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1880-1922 and other works and co-editor of Readings in Modern Arabic Literature: The Short Story and the Novel. Hamid Algar is Professor of Persian Studies, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Religion and State in Iran, 1758-1906 and Mirza Malkum Khan: A Biographical Study in the History of Iranian Modernism.