Toru Miura is Professor of Comparative History at Ochanomizu University and Head of the Documentation Centre for Islamic Area Studies at the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library). He has published extensively on social history. His works include Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives (co-editor, London, 1994) and The Vellum Contract Documents in Morocco in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (co-editor, Tokyo, 2015).

Toru Miura is Professor of Comparative History at Ochanomizu University and Head of the Documentation Centre for Islamic Area Studies at the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library). He has published extensively on social history. His works include Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives (co-editor, London, 1994) and The Vellum Contract Documents in Morocco in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (co-editor, Tokyo, 2015).