Muzaffar Iqbal is the founder-president of Center for Islam and Science (www.cis-ca.org), Canada, and editor of Islam & Science, a semi-annual journal of Islamic perspectives on science and civilization. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1983), and then left the field of experimental science to fully devote himself to study Islam, its spiritual, intellecutal and scientific traditions.

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he has lived in Canada since 1979. He has held academic and research positions at University of Saskatchewan (1979-1984), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984-85), and McGill University (1986). During 1990-1999, he pursued his research and study on various aspects of Islam in Pakistan, where he also worked as Director, Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) between 1991-96 and as Director, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1998-99). 

Dr. Iqbal has published books and papers on  the relationship between Islam and science, Islam and the West, the contemporary situation of Muslims, and the history of Islamic science. His publications include Islam and Science (Ashgate, 2002), God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives (co-ed., Ashgate, 2002), Science and Islam (Greenwood Press, 2007),  Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal (Al-Qalam-IBT, 2007),  Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim’s Passage (Islamic Book Trust, 2007), Dew on Sunburnt Roses and other Quantum Notes (Dost Publications, 2007), Definitive Encounters: Islam, Muslims, and the West (Islamic Book Trust, 2008), and The Making of Islamic Science (IBT, 2009). He is the General Editor of Ashgate's forthcoming series, Islam and Science :Historic and Contemporary Perspectives.

His other publications include a bilingual (Arabic-Urdu) edition of the Divan of the tenth century mystic, Mansur al-Hallaj, Divan al-Hallaj (Danyal, 1997, reprinted 2000); an anthology of Pakistani short stories, Colours of Loneliness (Oxford University Press, 1999); two novels, Inkhila (Uprooting, 1988) and Inqta (Severance, 1994); a book on the history of the Independence Movement of Pakistan (Jang-e Azadi sey Hasul-e Azadi tak, 1977); a book on the life and works of Herman Melville (1996) and many short stories and poems. His fiction and translations have appeared in literary journals in Pakistan, Canada, and the United States. He co-translated volume VII of Tafhim al-Qur’an, an influential twentieth century tafsir (Islamic Foundation, 2001). He contributed, as consultant, to Concentric Circles—Nurturing Awe and Wonder in Early Childhood and is one of the founders of Muslim Education Foundation (Canada), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing resources and services to educators, students and parents for a process of learning built on the Qur’anic worldview.

He is the General Editor of the forthcoming seven-volume Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, the first English language reference work on the Qur'an based on fourteen centuries of Muslim reflection and scholarship.