Ulrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. Having served on the editorial board of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens (1986–2015), he is now conducting a research project studying the impact of narratives from the Muslim Middle East on Western tradition. He is the editor of The Arabian Nights Reader (Wayne State University Press, 2006) and The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective (Wayne State University Press, 2007).