Julien Loiseau is Assistant Professor in Islamic History at the University of Montpellier and Junior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. His published works include Reconstruire la Maison du sultan. Ruine et recomposition de l’ordre urbain au Caire, 1350-1450 (Cairo, 2010) and the coordination of the Histoire du monde au XVe siècle (Paris, 2009).