Mustafa Shah is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the Near and Middle East Department, SOAS. His principal research and teaching interests include early Arabic linguistic thought; theology and jurisprudence; and Qur’anic hermeneutics and exegesis. He has recently edited a four-volume collection of published articles on Qur’anic commentary entitled Tafsir: Interpreting the Qur’an (Routledge, 2013) and a similar work devoted to the Prophetic traditions, The Hadith (Routledge, 2010). Previously, he has published articles on the subject of Qur’anic readings, the early Arabic linguistic tradition, and aspects of theological thought. More recently, as well as contributing to various projects such as the Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (E.J. Brill) and the Oxford Bibliographies Online: Arabic and Islam: an annotated introduction and bibliography (Oxford University Press, 2010), he has been working on a number of monographs and articles including Interpreting the Qur’an: Classical Hermeneutics (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).