José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim is a Senior Researcher at the Center for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His main area of interest is Jewish Studies, in which he has published more than sixty articles and four books.

João Teles e Cunha is an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies and researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His fields of interest are trade, society, and culture of South Asia and the Middle East in the early modern age, having published several articles and books on the subject.