The following renowned scholars kindly support this project.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Günther

• Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen.
• Visiting professorships at various universities and other institutions in the Middle East.
• Co-editor of the Islamic History and Civilization series, published by Brill Academic Publishers.

Prof. Dr. Efraim Lev

• Head, Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
• Head, The Interdisciplinary Center for the Broader Application of the Genizah Research, University of Haifa.
• George Urdang Medal for pharmaco-historical writings (2012). (Award of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy).
• Medal and membership of the International Academy of the History of Pharmacy (Warsaw 2017).

Prof. Dr. Qing Li

• Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo.
• Founding member and chairman of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine.
• Vice president and secretary general of the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine (INFOM).

Prof. Dr. Jenny So

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• (formerly) Senior Curator of Chinese Art at The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf

• Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy of Education, Free University of Berlin.