Angelika Neuwirth is professor emeritus of Qur'anic studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Samuel Wilder is a translator who has held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the Orient-Institut Beirut. He lives in Berlin.
Neuwirth is a paradigm-changer in the field of late antique and early Islamic studies-a philologist in the best possible sense. Her holistic understanding of the Qur'an as both written text and oral performance has placed her at the forefront of what is most exciting in the now rejuvenated multi-disciplinary field of Quranic studies. -Elizabeth Key Fowden, University of Cambridge