The Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān (IEQ) is the first encyclopedia of the Qurʾān exclusively based on Islamic sources and being written by Muslims. It draws on a wide range of traditional Muslim sources, including exegeses, Hadith collections and commentaries, classical lexicons, biographical dictionaries, universal histories, works of jurisprudence, Prophetic biographies, and treatises on spiritual and moral psychology-some of which have never before been presented in any encyclopedic work on the Qur'an. In this podcast, Dr. Waqas Ahmed, the host of IEQ podcasts, asks Imam Mohammad Elshinawy, the Religious Director at Jesus Son of Mary Mosque in Allentown Pennsylvania and Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal, General Editor of IEQ, why this project is needed. The free-flowing conversation then takes on its own life.