MIKLÓS MARÓTH (Budapest, 1943) graduated in Assyrian and gained his PhD at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. From 1988 to 2011 he was Head of Centre for Classical Studies of the Academy of Sciences, while teaching and researching abroad (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, and Harvard, Boston). He has been Professor of Classical and Semitic Philology (Arabic) at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, since 1992, and for the past 13 years, has held the position of Director of the Avicenna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Maróth is a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of numerous scientific societies, including the European Union of Arabists, the Bureau of the Union Académique Internationale, the European Academy (London), and the International Society for the Studies of the History of Sciences in Islam (Paris).