George Archer is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Maria M. Dakake is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Daniel A. Madigan is Associate Professor and Jeanette W. and Otto J. Ruesch Family Distinguished Jesuit Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Editors' Introduction: The Qur'an's Three Worlds Part I: The World Before the Qur'an 1. Late Antiquity and the Religious Milieu of the Qur'an's Origins 2. Arabia: Ripe for a New Prophet 3. Mecca and Medina: The Sacred History and Geography of the Qur'an Part II: The World of the Qur¿an 4. God: The Many-Named One of the Qur'an 5. Humanity in Covenant with God 6. Qur'an and Eschatology 7. Abraham and his Family 8. Biblical Prophets: Moses, Joseph, Jonah, and Job 9. John, Jesus, and Mary in the Qur'an 10. Muhammad in the Qur'an 11. The Praiseworthy (and the Reprehensible) 12. The People of Scripture (Ahl al-Kit¿b) 13. Qur'anic Creation: Anthropocentric Readings and Eco-centric Possibilities 14. Jinn in the Qur'an 15. Style in the Qur'an 16. Structure and Organization of the Qur'an 17. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration 18. Metaphor, Symbol, and Parable in the Qur'an 19. The Relationship Between the Oral and the Written Part III: The World in Front of the Qur'an 20. Asb¿b al-Naz¿l: The (Good) Occasions of Revelation 21. The Early Commentators of the Qur'an 22. Fakhr al-D¿n al-R¿z¿ Seen Through His Great Commentary on the Qur'an 23. Tafs¿r Ibn Kath¿r: A Window onto Medieval Islam and a Guide to the Development of Modern Islamic Orthodoxy 24. The Formative Development of Shi¿i Qur'anic Exegesis 25. Methodological Observations in al-¿All¿ma al-¿ab¿¿ab¿¿¿'s Qur'an Commentary: Al-M¿z¿n 26. The Qur'an in the Thought of Ibn ¿Arab¿ 27. Sufi Readings of the Qur'an 28. Shi'i Ismaili Approaches to the Qur'an: From Revelation to Exegesis 29. Women's Contemporary Readings of the Qur'an 30. War and Peace in the Qur'an 31. Muhammad ¿Abduh and Sayyid Qutb 32. Readings of the Qur'an from Outside the Tradition 33. Translations 34. The Qur'an and Material Culture 35. The Qur'an and the Internet 36. The Qur'an in Contemporary Mass and Popular Culture 37. The Qur'an and Kal¿m 38. The Impact of the Qur'an on Islamic Philosophy 39. Political Theology and the Qur'an 40. The Qur'an, Science, and Medicine