The City of Balkh: The History, Archaeology, and Culture of a Great Islamicate Capital in Afghanistan 7th to 13th Century CE (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784538170)

Arezou Azad holds the Chair in the Art and Heritage of Afghanistan at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientale in Paris and is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Director of the Invisible East programme. She is the author of Sacred Landscape of Medieval Afghanistan (OUP, 2013) and The Warehouse of Bamiyan (EUP, 2025).

Edmund Herzig is Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow in Iranian Studies at Wadham College, Oxford. A specialist in the history of Iran, he is co-editor (with Sarah Stewart) of The Age of the Seljuqs and (with Willem Floor) of Iran and the World in the Safavid Age.
Robert Hoyland is Professor of the Late Antique and Early Islamic History of the Middle East at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, having formerly taught at the universities of Oxford and St Andrews.
Philippe Marquis is Director of DAFA (La Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan).
Paul Wordsworth is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.