Suha Taji-Farouki is Senior Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, the University of Exeter. She studied at Durham University, where she later taught, and then became a Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She has written extensively on modern Islamic thought, including editing two major volumes, Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century and Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an.