Paula Sanders is a professor of history and the director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University. Emran El-Badawi is an associate professor and program director for Middle Eastern studies at the University of Houston.
'This lovely collection describes ten different interpretive communities, both Muslim and non-Muslim, of the Qur'an. It helps us to better understand the text that is central to the world's Muslims, while illuminating their own diversity.' -- Amir Hussain, Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University