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Wadad Kadi is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies Emerita at the University of Chicago. From 1988 to 1997 she was a professor of Islamic thought at the University of Chicago; she also taught at the American University of Beirut and Harvard University. Kadi is an associate editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān and co-editor of Islam and Education: Myths and Truths (2007). She has published numerous books and articles in various areas of Islamic thought and classical Arabic prose. Her research has focused on the Qur’an’s influence on Arabic prose, Islamic political thought, early Islamic theology and sectarianism, early Islamic administrative history, and Islamic papyrology. Born in Beirut, Kadi studied at the American University of Beirut, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Yale University.