Nuha al-Sha‘ar has taught at the University of Cambridge; the School of Oriental and African Studies, London; and the International Studies Centre, Queen’s University Canada, UK. She has worked at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Her main areas of interests are Classical Arabic Literature and thought, kalām and philosophy; ethics in Muslim traditions; Qur’anic exegesis; modern Islamic movements; contemporary readings of the Qur’an. She is currently working on the book The Philosophy of Ethics in Islam: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Intellectuals of the Būyid Period, and on editing a volume on Qur’an and Adab Traditions.