Muzaffar Iqbal is the Director of the Centre for Islamic Sciences (established in 2000 as the Centre for Islam and Science and renamed in 2013). Over the past three decades, his research and publications have focused on three broad areas within the Muslim encounter with modernity: (i) the impact of this encounter on Muslims’ self-understanding of their spiritual and intellectual traditions; (ii) the relationship between Islam and science and the role of modern science and technology in reshaping the intellectual, social and political landscape of the Muslim world; and (iii) Quranic studies, including Western scholarship on the Quran. His publications include twenty-one books and over one hundred articles. His books and articles have been translated into Persian, Bahasa Indonesia, Albanian and Korean.