Introduction

Johanna Pink is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Her primary research focus is the transregional history of tafsīr and Qur’an translation. She serves as the general editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Online and was the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project GloQur. Her publications include Muslim Qur’ānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies, and Interpretive Communities (Sheffield: Equinox, 2019) and Qur’an Translation in Indonesia: Scriptural Politics in a Multilingual State (London: Routledge, 2024). She has worked and published extensively on the study of the global history of modern Muslim Qur’an translation.