Samer Akkach, PhD (1992) in Architecture, University of Sydney, is Associate Professor in Architectural History and Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture at Adelaide University. His major works include 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi: Islam and the Enlightenment (Oneworld 2007); Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas (SUNY 2005).