Biographical notes ARASH ABIZADEH received his M.Phil in politics as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford where he trained in contemporary political philosophy. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Harvard University in social and political theory and comparative politics as a Judith Shklar fellow, Frank Knox fellow, and fellow of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. CONSTANCE CHEN gained a history degree at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. Her book The "Sex side of life": May Ware Dennett's pioneering battles for birth control and sex education will be published by New Press in June 1996. JUAN COLE is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of books on Indian Islam and modern Egypt, and has translated into English works by Mírzá Abú'l-Fal and Kahlil Gibran. JOHN DANESH gained degrees in medicine and epidemiology at the University of Otago in New Zealand and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, respectively. He is studying toward a D.Phil in clinical trials and epidemiology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and Balliol College senior scholar in science and medicine. SEENA FAZEL graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. He is training in psychiatry in Oxford. GRAHAM HASSALL, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne. He has published several articles on Bahá'í history and biography, and on issues of governance in the Asia-Pacific region. SUSAN LAMB gained degrees in law and politics from the University of Otago. She is completing a doctorate in public international law at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. BARNEY LEITH has degrees in sociology from the University of Exeter and social psychology and philosophy from the University of Kent at Canterbury. His experiences as manager of George Ronald publishers, editor of the UK Bahá'í Journal, and liaison member for "review" of the British National Spiritual Assembly have encouraged him to think about its practice. SEN McGLINN studied English literature and Christian theology at the University of Otago. He is an academic editor and translator in Maastricht, the Netherlands. MOOJAN MOMEN has written numerous books and articles on Bahá'í history and theology. His latest book is Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith (George Ronald, 1995). UDO SCHAEFER was chief public-prosecutor at the State Court of Heidelberg until his retirement in 1988. He has published several books on Bahá'í theology. He has recently co-authored Desinformation als Methode: Die Bahá'ismus-Monographie des F. Ficicchia (Goerg Olms, 1995). LINDA WALBRIDGE gained a Ph.D. in anthropology from Wayne State University, which is publishing her book entitled Without forgetting the Imam: a study of a Shi'i Lebanese community in America. She teaches courses on the Middle East at Indiana University, and specialises in religion, Middle Eastern societies, and Shí'í Islamic communities in the U.S.A.

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