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Routledge Studies in the Qur'an


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In its examination of critical issues in the scholarly study of the Qur'an and its commentaries, this series targets the disciplines of archaeology, history, textual history, anthropology, theology and literary criticism. The contemporary relevance of the Qur'an in the Muslim world, its role in politics and in legal debates are also dealt with, as are debates surrounding Quranic studies in the Muslim world.

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Non Sola Scriptura Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham

Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Bruce Fudge, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Christian Lange, Sarah Bowen Savant
May 27, 2024

William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together 17 contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work. Contributions to this collection, by his colleagues and students, treat many different ...

Qur'an Translation in Indonesia Scriptural Politics in a Multilingual State

Qur'an Translation in Indonesia: Scriptural Politics in a Multilingual State

1st Edition

Edited By Johanna Pink
September 29, 2023

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Qur’an translation in Indonesia – the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world with a highly diverse, multilingual society. Delving into the linguistic and political dimensions of this field, the contributors – many of whom are Indonesian ...

The Qur'an in South Asia Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India

The Qur'an in South Asia: Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India

1st Edition

By Kamran Bashir
May 31, 2023

The book investigates modern Qur’an commentaries in South Asia and engages with how Muslim scholars have imagined and assessed their past intellectual heritage. The research is focused on British India from the time of the Mutiny of 1857 to the moment of the Partition of united India in 1947. ...

Structural Dividers in the Qur'an

Structural Dividers in the Qur'an

1st Edition

Edited By Marianna Klar
January 09, 2023

This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur’anic surahs. Recent academic studies of the Qur’an have taken an increasing interest in the concept of the surah as a unity and, with it, the division of complete surahs into ...

The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity Return to the Origins

The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins

1st Edition

Edited By Holger M. Zellentin
April 01, 2019

This volume explores the relationship between the Qur’an and the Jewish and Christian traditions, considering aspects of continuity and reform. The chapters examine the Qur’an’s retelling of biblical narratives, as well as its reaction to a wide array of topics that mark Late Antique ...

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic An Exegetical Tradition

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition

1st Edition

By Susan Gunasti
March 18, 2019

The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur’an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey. The work explores the relationship between ...

Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century

Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century

1st Edition

By Majid Daneshgar
August 16, 2017

Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many previously neglected matters regarding Islam and science, his publications shocked the Cairo ...

Mary in the Qur'an A Literary Reading

Mary in the Qur'an: A Literary Reading

1st Edition

By Hosn Abboud
November 07, 2016

Providing an analysis of the complete story of Mary in its liturgical, narrative and rhetorical contexts, this literary reading is a prerequisite to any textual reading of the Qur’an whether juristic, theological, or otherwise. intertextuality between the Old Testament, New Testament and the Qur’...

The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World Context and Interpretation

The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation

1st Edition

Edited By Majid Daneshgar, Peter G. Riddell, Andrew Rippin
June 21, 2016

The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world. The essays in The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World resolve this, aiming to expand our ...

Qur'ānic Studies Today

Qur'ānic Studies Today

1st Edition

Edited By Angelika Neuwirth, Michael Sells
April 22, 2016

Qur'ānic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'ān. Combining theoretical and methodological clarity with close readings of qur’ānic texts, these contributions provide close...

The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions

The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions

1st Edition

By Emran El-Badawi
March 03, 2016

This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars, including al-Biqā‘ī (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505)...

Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Rhetoric of Moral Reform in the Caliphate of al-Ma'ūn

Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview: Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Rhetoric of Moral Reform in the Caliphate of al-Ma'ūn

1st Edition

By Vanessa De Gifis
April 16, 2014

Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʾān’s meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʾānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the ʿAbbāsid Caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813-833), whose rule ...

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