The public lecture “How (Not) to Translate the Qur’an,” by Dr. Shawkat Toorawa—an event hosted by the Qur’an Seminar project earlier this...
By David Bertaina The Alphonse Mingana Manuscript Collection at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom holds an important yet...
Our inaugural events in Baltimore are quickly approaching! If you’re planning on joining us on Friday, November 22nd and have not yet RSVP’ed,...
By Leyla Ozgur Alhassen Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative is an introduction to the literary elements of Biblical narrative,...
By Holger Zellentin This past week, an exciting conversation took place at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London. The event...
Would you like to see your work featured in this space? IQSA welcomes your blog submissions. Whether an interview, a summary of...
By Nicolai Sinai OXFORD—In doing modern Islamic intellectual history, it is easy to succumb to the temptation to concentrate one’s analytic...
Thanks to PISAI Études Arabes is one of the publications of Rome’s Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), along with Islamochristiana and Encounter. The latter two...
By Dr. Keith Small Prof. François Déroche, one of the leading scholars in Arabic manuscript studies, has a new book due out...
Prof. Salih Akdemir, of Ankara University in Turkey, presented at the First International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur’an earlier this year...
A video of the full lecture, “Islamic Origins: Messenger and Message,” by Dr. Benjamin Geer is available through the Middle East Institute...
A recent doctoral dissertation in Qur’anic studies, titled “Modern Women Exegetes of the Qur’an: Gender Perspectives on the Creation Narrative, Qiwama...