Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor, with David Prochaska, of "After the Colonial Turn: Orientalism, History and Theory "(2005) and coeditor, with Ira M. Lapidus, of "Islam, Politics, and Social Movements "(California, 1990). David N. Yaghoubian is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.