About the Author

The translator Eerik Dickinson has degrees from the University of Michigan and Yale University. He has taught Arabic and Islam at Yale and Hunter College in New York City. In addition to publishing several articles on hadith and the Arabic biographical tradition in learned journals, he has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an and Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. His first book The Development of early Sunnite Hadith Criticism appeared in 2001. He also writes on Arabic dialectology.