Joseph Lumbard is Chair of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Program at Brandeis University. A former Advisor for Interfaith Affairs to His Majesty King Abdallah II of Jordan, he has published articles on Sufism, Philosophy and Interfaith relations. He has edited Islam, Fundamentalism and the Betrayal of Tradition, the only volume to examine the rise of strident puritanical interpretations of Islam from a traditional perspective. He is an editor for the Harper Collins Study Quran and is currently writing Towards a Judeo-Christian-Islamic Tradition, an examination of the scriptural foundations for establishing common ground among the Abrahamic traditions.