Max Taylor is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews Scotland. Earlier appointments include Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews and Professor of Applied Psychology at University College Cork Ireland. His publications include: The Future of Terrorism (with John Horgan) 2000; Terrorist Lives (with Ethel Quayle) 1994; and The Fanatics: A Behavioural Approach to Political Violence 1991. P. M. Currie was educated at Cambridge and Oxford where he gained a doctorate on Islam in Indiapublished as The Shrine and Cult of Muin al-din Chishti of Ajmer (Oxford University Press 1989; re-issued 1993 and 2006). He has also contributed to the new edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam published by Brill. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of International Relations St Andrews University. Language: English