Travis Zadeh is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam and The Vernacular Qur'an.
A remarkable account of how a single text captivated readers for centuries, across the boundaries of language, religion, culture, and politics. Travis Zadeh's engrossing study uncovers, with great erudition, the genesis and many afterlives of an extraordinary book, illuminating its continued power to inspire and amaze readers in our present day. -- Richard Ovenden, author of <i>Burning the Books</i>