Abstract
This collection of essays, organized as a part of the celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of Professor Issa J. Boullata of the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, is devoted to elucidating the many dimensions of understanding the Qur'an. Many of those students, along with a groups of friends, have contributed essays all of which are devoted to explicating the Qur'an in its historical and contemporary contexts. The fourteen essays of this volume are testimony to that, each of them devoted to explicating the Qur'an in its historical and contemporary contexts.