Volume V, Practices, Interpretations, and Representations, of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures marks the last thematically planned volume of EWIC. Volume VI, which will be published later in 2007, consists of the cumulative index plus the entries from Volumes I–V which were completed after the deadlines for those volumes. Coming eight years after the first Editorial Board meeting in 1999 (twelve years after I, as general editor, began the framing of the EWIC project), Volume V completes the ini…