This week, we ask our readers to visit our Facebook page, where there is now an event posted for our day...
By Emran El-Badawi I offered an undergraduate course last spring for the first time on the Qur’an as Literature. My goal...
“Islamic tradition paints a picture of Islam’s origins in a pagan environment, and Western scholars have often assumed that Mecca in the time...
This week, IQSA directs its readers to a pertinent lecture by Frédéric Imbert—professor at Aix-Marseille Université specializing in Islamic epigraphy—available through the French...
By Keith Small IQSA is providing a significant platform for the exploration of paleographic and orthographic features in early Qur’ān manuscripts....
By Ali Mabrouk Professor Mabrouk examines the broad, semantic use of the terms islām/muslim in the Qur’an (eg. 3:19; 31:22) and argues...
Thanks to Nicolai Sinai and Mehdi Azaiez Islamic Studies Colloquium CLAIMING TRADITION: MODERN REREADINGS OF THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC HERITAGE Organisers: Elisabeth...
By Emran El-Badawi and Gabriel Reynolds Our newly designed website is now online, and we hope visitors find it practical, as...
By Daniel Brubaker The earliest Qur’āns represent a tangible anchor to the early history of Islam. Some of the manuscripts we...
Equinox recently published a new translation and annotation of the Qur’an which has attracted considerable interest and which may become a...
By Maryam Mosharraf Numerous grammatical tropes and rhetorical mysteries of Sura al-Fatiha have always been a great point of interest. We...
By Emran El-Badawi and Gabriel Reynolds On April 9th we announced our first international meeting to be held in St. Andrews,...