Adil Salahi is a scholar, author, and translator, who has written or translated into English various books on Islam. He formerly taught at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He was also, for over thirty years, the editor of 'Islam in Perspective', a regular full-page column in the Arab News, a Saudi daily newspaper. Adil Salahi's writings include the acclaimed Muhammad: Man and Prophet and Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship, and the English translation of the eighteen-volume commentary - In the Shade of the Qur'an - by Sayyid Qutb.