Joseph E. B. Lumbard is Associate Professor of Quranic Studies in the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha. His scholarship contributes to the fields of Quranic Studies, Islamic Philosophical Theology, Sufism, and Postcolonial Theory. Dr. Lumbard has previously taught at the American University of Sharjah, Brandeis University, and the American University in Cairo. He also served as Advisor for Interfaith Affairs to the Jordanian Royal Court. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Yale University and has studied with scholars in Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and Iran. He served as author, translator and Managing General Editor for The Study Quran (HarperOne 2015), which has been heralded as one of the most important contributions to Islamic Studies in the English language. In addition to articles in the fields of Quranic Studies and Islamic Thought, he is the author of Aḥmad al-Ghazālī, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love (SUNY Press, 2016) and Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam (Zaytuna, 2009), and the editor of Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (2^nd edition, 2010). His current research incorporates aspects of Quranic Studies, Philosophy and Theology, and Postcolonial Theory to focus on the development of epistemologies in Islam.