Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's "Encyclopaedia of the Qur'?n" (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'?n. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'?nic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'?nic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 6 volumes, the "EQ" is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'?n to appear in a Western language.

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Ph.D. (Georgetown University, Washington) is Professor of History and Professor of Arabic.