The Kingdom And The Qur'an

This book owes its existence to a research project that received generous funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Union (grant agreement n° 863650). I am deeply indebted to Professor Johanna Pink for extending her invitation to join the project, providing constant support, conducting meticulous reviews of various drafts of the manuscript of this volume, offering invaluable advice, and providing other forms of academic guidance that have been highly inspirational to me. I must also acknowledge the invaluable contributions of my colleagues on the GloQur team (Elvira Kulieva, Kamran Khan, and Yulianingsih Riswan), who have participated with me in numerous discussions, colloquia, and workshops that have helped shape many of the ideas presented in this book. I am also deeply thankful to the British Academy for organising my research stay at Coventry University, where I discussed some of my preliminary findings related to Muslim-Christian relations in Qur’an translations.