Japanese Researchers

- SHIMOYAMA Tomoko (The University of Tokyo) with Unit 1

Subject: Religious Powers in 12th-Century Iran

- IWASAKI Erina (Hitotsubashi University) with Unit 3

Subject: Case Studies of Laborers in Southern Tunisia

- ARAI Yuji (The University of Tokyo) with Unit 4

Subject: Structural Principles of Urban Spaces in the Middle East

- SATO Minoru (The University of Tokyo) with Unit 5

Subject: Chinese Muslim Intellectuals in the 17th-18th Centuries

Foreign Researchers

- Muhammad Sabri Muhammad YUSUF (Helwan University) with Unit 2

Subject: Knowledge and Thought in Egypt During the Ottoman Period

- Touhami ABDOULI (Universit� du Centre, Tunisia) with Unit 2

Subject: Popular Movements and Democratization in Western Arab States

- ﾛsmail Cihangir ﾛSTEK (The University of Tokyo) with Unit 4

Subject: Spatial Analysis of Turkish Cities and Urban Structure

- Brigitte MARINO (Institut Fran溝is dﾕEtudes Arabes de Damas) with Unit 5

Subject: Cities, Territories in Ottoman Syria