Caner Dagli is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at College of the Holy Cross. In 2006-2007 he served as Interfaith Affairs Consultant in the Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan, where he participated in such projects as An Open Letter to the Pope (in response to the Regensburg lecture) and the recent and ongoing A Common Word Between Us and You (addressed to the world’s Christians), and several other projects. He is the author of The Ringstones of Wisdom, a study and translation of Ibn al-Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam, and has published in the fields of Islamic philosophy and Sufism. He is an associate editor for the forthcoming Study Quran from HarperCollins, under chief editor Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Dr. Dagli holds a Ph.D. from Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies, and an MA from the Department of Religion at George Washington University.