...Johanne Louise Christiansen Many things could be said about this passage and I revisit the motif of chastity and veiling below. Here, I only note that this is the closest we get to a direct address to women in the Qur’an—through the Prophet as the implied second-person singular addressee (in a ‘say...

... echo those of creation, and meaning combines with form just as the spirit descends on matter. The following chapters embark on a close reading of selected poems, exploring such peculiar verse forms as poetic responses to chapters of the Qur’an; imitations of earlier poets; a set of poems using the same...

...In chapter 10, Jerusha Lamptey problematizes the widely held assumption that there exist “impermeable boundaries” between the various groups described in Islamic scripture. According to Lamptey, the Qur’an is dynamic, and much of its dynamism comes from its intentionally provocative complexity...

... contribution to Christian Christology with the help of the Qur’an, by working through one of the fundamental problems in Muslim-Christian understanding: the meaning of Christ. Von Stosch aims to take the Islamic appreciation of Jesus of Nazareth as seriously as possible, to face the problems arising...

... Radia Rome ancient and the Roman Empire Tuwayrani Hasan Husni al Amin Qasim Barbara St consumption gendered domesticity nationalism writing of by Arab intellectuals body the Orientalism and Orientalists paratexts parenting Qur’an sex work Turkey Fawwaz Zaynab Midhat Ahmet seclusion...

... wa Būdāsf and goes on to describe early relations between Muslims and Buddhists. There are two artworks here: a Persian ewer and a page from the Qur’an. Arabia Būdāsf Islam Kapilavastu Kitāb Bilawhar wa Būdāsf The Book of Bilawhar and Būdāsf al Budd Amitābha Bilawhar Sri Lanka Abābīd...

...This chapter attempts a historical sketch of the relationship between the Qur’an and rhetoric, arising from the Qur’an’s repeated reference to its own surpassing and inimitable eloquence, (Bayan) and thus, its divine origin. The Qur’an’s hostility to poets and poetry was eventually...

...Although Ibāḍīs wrote frequently on philology, rhetoric, theology, and the sciences of Qur’an interpretation, there has been little interest in the composition of complete Ibāḍī tafsīrs until the modern period. Ibāḍī teachers taught Qur’anic interpretation to their students using...

...This chapter gives an overview of the state of scholarship on classical Qur’anic hermeneutics with an emphasis on applied hermeneutics as evidenced in Qur’anic commentaries (tafsīr); it focuses on a period that roughly starts in the fourth/tenth century and that continues...

... Michael Schacht Joseph Al Sayyid Ridwan Byzantium and Byzantines Chabbi Jacqueline Mottahedeh Roy Umayyad Umayyads Sizgorich Thomas Egypt jihād Yemen Qur’an Jihad Tafsīr al-Khams Miʾat Ā ya min al-Qurʾān al-Karīm Kitāb al-Nāsikh wa-l-mansūkh Muqātil b. Sulaymān Abū ʿUbayd Understanding...

...Discusses the conversion of Qur’anic writing from ambiguously majestic Kufic scripts to the elegantly legible scripts developed by Ibn Muqla (d. 940) and Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022), focusing on a substantial group of Qur’an manuscripts made between the 10^th and 11^th centuries...

... narrative deferment blindness Ibrāhīm Arberry Arthur J reunion Christianity Laṭāʾif al ishārāt al Qushayrī al Qushayrī Abū l Qāsim poetry Sufism maʾāl turning points kashf Arabic Narrative Narrative Qur’an Islamic Exegesis Recognition Epistemology Literary Construction Arabic Literary...

... ʿUthmān Ashʿath ignorance Lyons Malcolm Recognition Arabic Narrative Intertextuality Qur’an Epistemology Arabic Literary Tradition Storytelling Imposture and Allusion [He] experienced the freedom that lies behind the mask, within dissimulation, the freedom to juggle with being, and, indeed...

... Qur’anic references to the eschatological descent of Jesus and, in doing so, cites interpretations by Muslim theologians on the subject. The four references as mentioned in the Qur’an are that (1) Jesus “will” speak in manhood, (2) the People of the Book will believe in Jesus when He dies, (3) He is a sign...

...Examines the diffusion throughout Western Europe of Latin translations of Islamic texts, such as the Qur’an, the Doctrina Mochometi, and the Liber scale Machometi. The Latin translations of the Qur’an by Robert of Ketton (1143), and by Marcos of Toledo (1210...

... at the types of entertainment employed—music, singers, and dancers, or Qur’an recitation and zikr—for men and women’s quarters, guests that visit the house or take part in processions, and the different foods and rituals that are observed. As the modern Egyptian does not become a housekeeper until he...

... (Isa) and Mary (Maryam) in the New Testament and the Qur’an, and more broadly in the two religious traditions as they evolved. She also reflects on the specifically Christian semiotics of the Cross. The Chapter ventures some further reflections on how the two traditions may be compared along broader...

... Khurasan al Qāshānī ʿAbd al Razzāq ẓāhir outward Ibn Barrajān ʿAbd al Salām al Darwājikī al Jīlānī ʿAbd al Qādir Qur’an commentary tafsīr Sufism eschatology Islamic orthodoxy The Qurʾan commentary attributed to the early Islamic mystic Sahl al-Tustarī (d. 283/896) mentions a story where Sahl...

... the Qur’an at the mosque as well as acquire religious know-how through schooling. These youth have been learning to be Muslim their entire lives. Primarily, parents have provided the initial introduction to Islamic practices at home; they also organise the structure of institutional education...

...This article examines the politics of knowledge production in the field of Islamic Studies, including Islamic Legal Studies, in the context of the Qur’an and Islamic law. It thinks broadly and freshly about Islamic Studies, categorizing it anew, by considering the study of the Qur’an as it relates...