Dr. Younus Y. Mirza is the Founding Director of the Barzinji Institute for Global Virtual Learning at Shenandoah University.  He defended his dissertation in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University and has taught at Millsaps and Allegheny Colleges.  His research focuses on the relationship between the Bible and the Qur’an and the shared stories between them.  He is the author of the forthcoming book The Islamic Mary: Maryam through the Centuries, co-author of the book The Bible and the Qur’an: Biblical Figures in the Islamic Tradition and has published in various journals such as the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR), the Journal of Qur’anic Studies (JQS) and Islam Christian-Muslim Relations (ICMR).  In his teaching, he has been profiled by Interfaith America and has won a teaching award for his First Year Seminar course.  He regularly teaches classes on the Qur’an and Bible, Marriage and Sexuality in Islam and hosts the A Common Word and The Islamic Mary podcasts.