Russell Harris

Russell Harris has an MA in Oriental Studies from Balliol College, Oxford. His duties in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies include editing entries for the Encyclopaedia Islamica, writing and improving etymologies, picture research, proofing and consulting on translations of Arabic texts, most usually for the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ series He is a contributor to the *Dictionary of National Biography*, *The Routledge Encyclopedia of 19th Century Photography* and *The Oxford Companion to Food*. …