Marcus Milwright is British Academy Global Professor in the Department of History of Art, University of York, and professor of Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of the Islamic Middle East, labor and craft practices in the urban environment, and cross-cultural contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean. He is involved in archaeological and architectural projects in Jordan, Syria, Iran and Greece and has created the Crafts of Syria, Crafts of Iraq, and Talking about Art websites. He is co-editor of Brill’s series, Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World. His books include: An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh, 2010), and The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions (Edinburgh, 2016); Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology (Edinburgh, 2017); The Queen of Sheba’s Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea (Edinburgh, 2021); A Story of Islamic Art (Routledge, 2023), and the co-edited volume (with Evanthia Baboula), Made for the Eye of One Who Sees: Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology (McGill/Queens University Press, 2022). He is currently working on a coauthored book in Routledge’s series, Fifty Objects for Medieval History and monographs dealing with two early Islamic architectural frontispieces from Sanʿaʾ and the metalworking traditions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.