Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Muhammad S. Eissa is currently a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago, and prior to that was the Mellon Lecturer at the University of Michigan. Eissa holds a bachelors, masters and a Ph.D. all from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. He also holds a C.Phil. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Eissa has been a professor of Arabic at American University in Cairo, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and Brigham Young University. He is the consulting editor for the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. Eissa is a Muslim. He serves as an educational advissor to the Islamic Schools League of America.