Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is an independent scholar lecturing at universities in Southern California, including UCLA and the American Jewish University. She has edited a number of Persian language textbooks, authored multiple articles related to Judeo-Persian Studies and published The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China (Brill, 2011) with Fook-Kong Wong.

The Prince and the Sufi is the literary composition of the seventeenth-century Judeo-Persian poet Elisha ben Shmūel. In The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour provides a thorough analysis of this popular work together with the annotated text and English translation.