Former Vice Chancellor of Hazara University in Pakistan, M. Ashraf Adeel is Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Philosophy of Science/Language with distinction from University of Hawaii, has held Professorship at University of Peshawar, and was a Senior Visiting Fellow at Linacre College Oxford in 1999. He publishes research in Philosophy of Science and Language as well as Modern Islamic Thought and is a poet and playwright.

• 1. Epistemic Concepts in the Quran.- 2. From Ignorance to Knowledge: Deriving Epistemic Virtues from the Quranic Conception of Ignorance.- 3. Quran on Knowledge: An Analysis of Etymological Variants of ‘i-l-m in the Text.- 4. On Understanding.- 5. Epistemic Virtues in the Quran and the Role of Epistemic Conscience.- 6. Value-Problem in Contemporary Western Epistemology and the Quranic Concept of Understanding.- 7. Concept of Wisdom in the Quran.- 8.  Implications of the Quranic Epistemology for Religion and Secularism.