Ezad Azraai Jamsari (Jamsari, E.A.) is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Research Centre for Arabic Language and Islamic Civilization (ArabIC), Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He graduated with a first class honours bachelor’s degree of Islamic Studies in Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilization from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM, The National University of Malaysia), Bangi in 1997. A year later he joined UKM as a Tutor in Department of Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilization, Faculty of Islamic Studies, UKM. He obtained his master’s degree of Islamic Studies (Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilization) from UKM with a dissertation entitled: “The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada: A Study of Cultural Contribution and Political Survival of Islamic Power in Andalus” in 2002. In the same year he is appointed as a Lecturer at UKM, and currently his research interests are in: Islamic Military History; Islamic Political History in al-Andalus (The Nasrids) and The Maghreb (The Marinids); Medieval Islamic History and Civilization (al-Andalus & The Ottomans); Islamic and Arabic Educational History; and Islamic Civilization