The Qur'an is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain
God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes
that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'anic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative
analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'anic studies. Drawing upon a rich scholarly
heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of
the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural
history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies. With
nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an to
appear in a Western language.

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