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# International Quranic Studies Association

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- [Streamed Conference "The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs" December 5-7](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/streamed-conference-the-qurʾan-and-syriac-christianity-recurring-themes-and-motifs-december-5-7/) - The study of the Qurʾān in light of pre-Islamic Syrian Christian texts has a long tradition among Western scholars. Indeed, the profound significance of Syriac for a better understanding of the Quran has been a recurring theme in academic exchanges. Still, despite the importance of Syriac, a conference devoted to the relation of the Qurʾān with Syrian
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2022-23](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2022-23/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at either of
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2022-23](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2022-23-2/) - A friendly reminder that the deadline for the Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize is fast approaching at January 30th! Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2023](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2023/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the sixth annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2022 Annual Meeting) has been awarded to Eric Devilliers for his paper: ““Seconding Sinai?: The Re-presentation of Mosaic Theophany in the Qur’an.” The winner of the Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize receives a
- [Early Bird Registration Ends TODAY!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/early-bird-registration-ends-today/) - If you're attending IQSA's Annual Meeting in San Antonio this fall, remember to register TODAY before rates increase! Early Bird registration saves you over $50 compared to regular rates. To sign up, Register as a Member of an Affiliate Organization here. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the Affiliate link and choose “International Qur’anic Studies Association”
- [Announcing JIQSA Volume 7 (2022)!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/announcing-jiqsa-volume-7-2022/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.7 2022 (Lockwood Press). Executive EditorSean W. Anthony, The Ohio State University, USAAssociate Editor Saqib Hussain, Loyola Marymount University, USA Editorial BoardAhmad Al-Jallad, The Ohio State University, USACarol Bakhos, University of California, Los AngelesUSA Majid Daneshgar, University of Otago, New
- [Giving Tuesday 2022: Support IQSA's Global Scholarship](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-2022-support-iqsas-global-scholarship/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, For over nine years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. IQSA is mindful of its members, partners, and friends during this difficult
- [A Year in Sum: IQSA 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-year-in-sum-iqsa-2022/) - Emerging from the global pandemic crisis with a new vigor, it’s been a dynamic year for the International Qur’anic Studies Association. The year of 2022 included new publications, partnerships, aleadership, and two annual meetings in and outside of the US! Meetings The 2022 Annual Meeting of IQSA was hosted by the La Pira Library and
- [New Publication—The Qur’an: A Guidebook](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-the-quran-a-guidebook/) - IQSA is excited to share the new publication of a book by Roberto Tottoli, Professor at the University of Naples, L'OrientaleI and IQSA member, The Qur'an: A Guidebook (De Gruyter 2023). The essay Reading and studying the Qur’an is an updated English version of the work appeared in Italian (Rome 2021) Leggere e studiare il Corano which deals
- [IQSA 2026 Vienna Conference Program](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2026-vienna-conference-program/) - Conference Schedule We are pleased to announce that the IQSA 2026 Annual MeetingProgram to take place from July 8 - 11, 2026 at the University of Vienna is nowavailable online. View Schedule Additional ways to explore the conference program: Presentations: https://event.fourwaves.com/iqsa2026/abstracts Participants: https://event.fourwaves.com/iqsa2026/participants Registration Open The 2026 IQSA Annual Conference will be held fully in
- [Annual Meeting Registration Open](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-registration-open/) - Registration Now Open: IQSA 2026 Annual Meeting Registration is now open for the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place July 8–11, 2026 at the University of Vienna in Austria. This year’s meeting will be fully in-person, offering an opportunity to engage directly with colleagues, share research, and connect with scholars from
- [Call for Papers OPEN - IQSA Annual Meeting 2026](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-open-iqsa-annual-meeting-2026/) - Call for Papers OPEN - IQSA Annual Meeting 2026 Campaign URL Copy Twitter 0 tweets Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate English العربية Afrikaans беларуская мова български català 中文（简体） 中文（繁體） Hrvatski Česky Dansk eesti keel Nederlands Suomi Français Deutsch Ελληνική हिन्दी Magyar Gaeilge Indonesia íslenska Italiano 日本語 ភាសាខ្មែរ 한국어 македонски јазик بهاس ملايو Malti Norsk Polski Português Português - Portugal
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2025-26](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2025-26/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the ninth annual AndrewRippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2025 Annual Meetings)has been awarded to Salma Albezreh for her paper: “Who But You Can Save Us? Allāh's TheologicalPosition in Ancestral Arabian Religion and Its Relevance for Understanding
- [JIQSA 2026 Access Link for Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-2026-access-link-for-members/) - Dear Valued Members, This is a friendly reminder that you have access to current and archived issues of the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association. The Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association is a peer-reviewed annual journal. It cultivates Qur’anic Studies as a growing field with a distinctive identity and focus, while acknowledging
- [Save the Date! IQSA Annual Meeting 2026](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/save-the-date-iqsa-annual-meeting-2026/) - Save the date! IQSA's 2026 Annual Meeting will be held from July 8 - 11 at the University of Vienna in scenic Austria. The Call for Papers and other details are forthcoming. Mark your calendars early for this exciting event!
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2025-26](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2025-26/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper from IQSA’s 2025 Annual Meeting by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2020 or later), in honor of Andrew Rippin, inaugural president of the learned society. The prize winner will receive $500. In addition, the award committee will provide him/her
- [Giving Tuesday 2024](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-2024-2/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, For over twelve years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. IQSA is mindful of its members and partners, and we want to
- [2025 Annual Meeting Reminders](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2025-annual-meeting-reminders/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association looks forward to welcoming its members and affiliates to its 2025 Annual Meeting, hosted by Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California, November 13–16, 2025. This year’s meeting offers both in-person and virtual participation - join us in Los Angeles or connect online from anywhere in the world! Registration & Membership [Required for All
- [Registration OPEN for IQSA Annual Meeting 2025!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-open-for-iqsa-annual-meeting-2025/) - Registration for the 2025 IQSA Annual Meeting is NOW OPEN! Follow the steps below to register for the International Qur'anic Studies Association's Annual Meeting from November 13 - 16, 2025 hosted on the Loyola Marymount University campus in Los Angeles, California. 1. Verify that your IQSA membership is active 2. Visit https://event.fourwaves.com/iqsa2025/registration 3. Complete the form 4. Complete payment based on your IQSA membership level Please note that the conference
- [IQSA 2025 Annual Meeting Goes Hybrid + Extended CFP (June 15) & Preview of Vienna 2026](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2025-annual-meeting-goes-hybrid-extended-cfp-june-15-preview-of-vienna-2026/) - Dear IQSA colleagues, After careful consideration of the increasing travel difficulties affecting many of our members, the Board of Directors has voted to add a full virtual track to the IQSA 2025 Annual Meeting, 13–16 November 2025, hosted on the Loyola Marymount University campus in Los Angeles. (IQSA 2025 Annual Meeting) What this means for
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2024-25](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2024-25/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the eighth annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2024 Annual Meetings) has been awarded to Madeline Wyse for her paper: “Irony in Early Islamic Exegesis: Case Study of David in Ibn Abī Shaybah’s Muṣannaf.” The
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2025](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2025/) - The Call for Papers for the 2025 IQSA Annual Meeting is now open! The International Qur’anic Studies Association is delighted to hold its Annual Meeting in person from November 13-16, 2025, hosted by Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. This conference is in-person only. There is no online option. Submissions are welcome as either individual papers, organized panels, or
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2024-25](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2024-25/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at IQSA’s 2024 meetings (London or San Diego) by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2019 or later), in honor of Andrew Rippin, inaugural president of the learned society. The prize winner will receive $500. In addition, the
- [Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Growth and Achievement for IQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reflecting-on-2024-a-year-of-growth-and-achievement-for-iqsa/) - As we bid farewell to 2024, the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA) celebrates a year of dynamic progress and global engagement. From conferences and publications to new initiatives and partnerships, our community continues to thrive as a hub for Qur'anic scholarship. Annual Meeting in London: A Global Gathering of Scholars In 2024, IQSA’s Annual Meeting
- [Giving Tuesday 2024](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-2024/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, For over eleven years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. IQSA is mindful of its members and partners, and we want to
- [New Publication: Female Divinity in the Qur’an by Emran El-Badawi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-female-divinity-in-the-quran-by-emran-el-badawi/) - Female Divinity in the Qur’an: In Conversation with the Bible and the Ancient Near East About this book This is the first book to examine how pre-Islamic/Late Antique goddesses shaped the Qur’an, including its basic theology and cosmology. Exploring the traces found in the text of cultic veneration to goddesses of Arabia and the Ancient
- [San Diego Meeting Registration: Rates Increasing August 1!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/san-diego-meeting-registration-rates-increasing-august-1/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association will have a limited conference program in San Diego, California from November 22-25, 2024 in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting. If you're joining IQSA in San Diego this fall, remember to register by August 1 before the Super Saver rates end!! Click here for a full
- [Registration Open! IQSA in San Diego 2024](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-open-iqsa-in-san-diego-2024/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in San Diego, California from November 22-25, 2024. You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering as an Affiliate Member ASAP. Reserve your spot before rates increase on May 30th! The Call for Papers for this meeting has closed. The program
- [Schedule Posted! IQSA 2024 in London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/schedule-posted-iqsa-2024-in-london/) - IQSA is excited to announce the schedule for this year’s Annual Conference hosted by the Institute of Ismaili Studies at the Aga Khan Centre in King’s Cross, London. The conference will take place in-person only from July 15-18, 2024. Find the full schedule at https://event.fourwaves.com/iqsa2024/schedule. Save abstracts of presentations you want to attend by clicking on the bookmark icon after
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2024](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2023-2/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the seventh annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2023 Annual Meeting) has been awarded to Paul Neuenkirchen for his paper: “Fear/Remembrance of God, Prayer, and Constancy as Ways of Fighting Demons Between the Qurʾān and
- [Get Ready for IQSA in London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/get-ready-for-iqsa-in-london/) - Thank you to all who submitted paper and panel proposals for IQSA's 2024 Meeting in London. Whether you'll be presenting or observing, here are the next steps to get ready for the meeting in July! Find accommodations information here. If you would like to attend all meeting sessions, plan to arrive by the evening of July 14
- [Call for Papers: IQSA in San Diego 2024](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-in-san-diego-2024/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California from November 22-25, 2024 in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s online submission system by March 20, 2024. For the 2024 meeting in San
- [Keynote Speaker Announced! IQSA 2024 in London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/keynote-speaker-announced-iqsa-2024-in-london/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association is excited to announce the keynote speaker for its 2024 Annual Meeting in London: Ahmad Al-Jallad. Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. His work focuses on the languages, writing systems, history, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East. His latest book reconstructs the religion and rituals of
- [Deadline Extended: Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2023-24](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-extended-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2023-24/) - The deadline for this year's Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize has been extended until February 7, 2024. In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at IQSA's 2023 meeting in San Antonio by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2018
- [Deadline Extended! IQSA Call for Papers (London 2024)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-extended-iqsa-call-for-papers-london-2024/) - ANNOUNCEMENT The deadline for papers and abstracts to be submitted for IQSA's 2024 Annual Meeting in London has been extended by one week! Paper and panel proposals are now due on Wednesday February 7, 2024. In addition, formatting guidelines have been added to the submission guidelines. If you have already submitted your proposal, you can edit your submission using
- [The Strange Neglect of the Family of Yāsīn or: Against Ḥafṣonormativity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-strange-neglect-of-the-family-of-yasin-or-against-ḥafṣonormativity/) - By Marijn van Putten One of the most useful things about the impressive work Le Coran des Historiens edited by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and Guillaume Dye,[1] is that each Surah contains a discussion of its structure. Sūrat al-Ṣāffāt (Q37) is thus organized by Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau into three main parts, verse 1-68 which discuss polemics and
- [Rhyme, Rhythm, and the Periphrastic Use of Kull in the Qur’ān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rhyme-rhythm-and-the-periphrastic-use-of-kull-in-the-quran/) - By Devin J. Stewart (Emory University) One of the most important areas of investigation of the Qur’an is that of rhyme and rhythm. These areas have not been completely ignored in Islamic tradition, and certain exceptional figures such as Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 403/1013), Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr (d. 637/1239), Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī (d. 716/1316),
- [The Question of pre-Islamic Arab identity from an epigraphic perspective](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-question-of-pre-islamic-arab-identity-from-an-epigraphic-perspective/) - By Ahmad Al-Jallad The term ‘Arab and its signification in pre-Islamic times has provoked a lively debate among specialists in the field of Arabic and Islamic studies. Opinions have ranged from the ethnicon being an indigenous label of self-identification by peoples who inhabited parts of the Peninsula between the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf[1] to it being
- [Deadline Approaching! IQSA Call for Papers (London 2024)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-iqsa-call-for-papers-london-2024/) - There is only one week left to submit your proposals for the International Qur’anic Studies Association's Annual Meeting to be held in person from July 15-18, 2024, hosted by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London! We are accepting proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Proposals will be considered on any aspect of the academic study
- [Registration Open! IQSA 2024 in London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-open-iqsa-2024-in-london/) - Registration is now open for IQSA's Annual Meeting in person in London from July 15-18, 2024, hosted by the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Active IQSA members can register at this link. If you are not an active IQSA member, please sign up here. Registration is open to conference participants as well as observers. IQSA has negotiated special
- [Notes on the Two Quranic Accounts of the End of Jesus’ Earthly Mission [Part 1 of 2]](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/notes-on-the-two-quranic-accounts-of-the-end-of-jesus-earthly-mission-part-1-of-2/) - By Sean W. Anthony, PhD The Qurʾan contains at least two passages on the end of Jesus’ earthly life: Q. Āl ʿImrān 3: 54-55 and Q. Nisāʾ 4:157-59. Both passages appear in sūrahs belonging to the Medinan period – or, at the very least, in sūrahs that engage in polemics against the so-called “People of
- [URGENT: Yahoo Group Discontinuation/Migration](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/urgent-yahoo-group-discontinuation-migration/) - Attention all IQSA colleagues and friends! As you might have seen, Yahoo has made the decision to discontinue the Yahoo Groups service and platform. Beginning October 28 users will not be able to upload any more content to the site. As of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. Users have until that date to save
- [Deadline Approaching: Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2023-24](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2023-24/) - The deadline for the 2023-24 Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize is fast approaching! In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at IQSA's 2023 meeting in San Antonio by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2018 or later). The prize
- [Reminder: Call for Papers - IQSA 2024 in London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-call-for-papers-iqsa-2024-in-london/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is delighted to hold its Annual Meeting in person from July 15-18, 2024, hosted by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London! A friendly reminder that we are now accepting proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions to be held in-person at the Aga Khan Centre, King's Cross, London. Proposals will
- [Welcoming New IQSA Lifetime Member: Juan Cole](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/welcoming-new-iqsa-lifetime-member-juan-cole/) - It is with great honor that the International Qur’anic Studies Association welcomes a new lifetime member: Professor Juan Cole. Juan R. I. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in the American Culture Department. He is
- [Call for Papers: IQSA 2024 in London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-2024-in-london/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association is delighted to hold its Annual Meeting in person from July 15-18, 2024, hosted by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London! We are now accepting proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions to be held in-person at the Aga Khan Centre, King’s Cross, London. Proposals will be considered on any aspect
- [The Mutazilah Rationalization as a Valid Philosophical System to Islamic Metaphysics of Divine Unity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-mutazilah-rationalization-as-a-valid-philosophical-system-to-islamic-metaphysics-of-divine-unity/) - Syed M. Waqas, Cincinnati Christian University, Ohio, USA IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 11: Medieval Falsafa and the Qur’an: a Changeable Relationship The Mu’tazilah school of falsafa and kalām has been vilified and villainized throughout Islamic theological history owing to their overwhelming emphasis upon the rational understanding of divine
- [Sayyid Quṭb Conception of Jihād against the Ṭawāġīt of the NewJāhiliyyah](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/sayyid-quṭb-conception-of-jihad-against-the-ṭawagit-of-the-newjahiliyyah/) - Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), FSCIRE, Italy IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 9. Striking Back at the Empire: Anti-imperialism in Contemporary Qur’anic Exegesis Colonialism and European nation-state ideology generated a strong cultural dependency that caused the gradual loss of national independency and consciousness, but
- [Standardization & Exegetical Variety in Translations of the Qur’an: Recent Cases from the King Fahd](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/standardization-exegetical-variety-in-translations-of-the-quran-recent-cases-from-the-king-fahd/) - Mykhaylo Yakubovych, GloQur, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 8. Qur’an Translation and its Exegetical Dimension: Transfers and Transformations Being one of the leading publishers of the Qur’an and its translation world-wide, the King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex continues to produce new interpretations. The number of languages
- [The Construction and Reconstruction of the Qur’an’s Meaning Through Translation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-construction-and-reconstruction-of-the-qurans-meaning-through-translation/) - Johanna Pink, GloQur, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 8. Qur’an Translation and its Exegetical Dimension: Transfers and Transformations Translation is often understood as the transfer of meaning from one language to another. In reality, though, it can be more aptly described as an attempt to reconstruct
- [Doc2vec to Measure Semantic Similarity between Verses of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/doc2vec-to-measure-semantic-similarity-between-verses-of-the-quran/) - Menwa Alshammeri, Jouf University and School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 7. Carriers of the Text and Readings. 2. The Qur’an in Light of Digital Humanities NLP helps us perform a wide range of tasks to analyze and penetrate the knowledge with text
- [Statistical Methods for Identifying Unknown Qur’anic Readings: An Application to Pronominal Variat..](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/statistical-methods-for-identifying-unknown-quranic-readings-an-application-to-pronominal-variat/) - Hythem Sidky, Independent Scholar, IQSA IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 7. Carriers of the Text and Readings 2: The Qur’an in Light of Digital Humanities Understanding the similarities and differences between Qur’anic reading traditions is critical to the study of their emergence and proliferation. Existing works comparing the reading
- [Mushaf Muscat: a New Approach to Arabic Text Editing in the Digital Age](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/mushaf-muscat-a-new-approach-to-arabic-text-editing-in-the-digital-age/) - Thomas Milo, Decotype, Amsterdam, Netherlands IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 7. Carriers of the Text and Readings 2: The Qur’an in Light of Digital Humanities The official Qur’an edition of the Sultanate of Oman, Mushaf Muscat, new computer technology had to be invented when it was launched in 2017.
- [Reading in Abraham Hinckelmann Qur’an Edition and Sources](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reading-in-abraham-hinckelmann-quran-edition-and-sources/) - Abdallah El-Khatib, Qatar University, Qatar IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 6. Carriers of the Text and Readings 1: Manuscripts, Illustrations, Amulets, and Printed Editions Abraham Hinckelmann’s edition of the Qur’an in 1694 was a milestone in the history of Qur’an printing in Europe. This paper tries to shed light
- [The Readers of Basra](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-readers-of-basra/) - Marijn van Putten, Leiden University, Netherlands IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 6. Carriers of the Text and Readings 1: Manuscripts, Illustrations, Amulets, and Printed Editions While recent years have seen a great increase in interest in early Qur’anic manuscripts and what they may tell us about the early history
- [Qur’anic Healing or Magic? Amulets as Medical Intervention inside Islamic West Africa](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-healing-or-magic-amulets-as-medical-intervention-inside-islamic-west-africa/) - S. Beena Butool, Department of Religion, Florida State University, USA IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 6. Carriers of the Text and Readings 1: Manuscripts, Illustrations, Amulets, and Printed Editions Are Qur’anic amulets magical or religious? Many contemporary and early anthropologists categorize Qur’anic amulets found in Islamic West Africa, especially
- [Panel 5. Theology, Mysticism, and Pluralism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/panel-5-theology-mysticism-and-pluralism/) - International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 5: Theology, Mysticism, and Pluralism 5.1 Mulla Sadra on the Interpretation of the Qur’an: Mystical or Pseudo-mystical (20 min) Reza Akbari, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran 5.2 Nonviolence Horizon in the Qur’an: Is it Possible to Go Beyond the Just War Theory? (20 min) Adnane
- [On Ḥanīf as an Arabic Qur’anic Term](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/on-ḥanif-as-an-arabic-quranic-term/) - Ivan Dyulgerov, Sofia University “St. Kiment Ohridski”, BulgariaIQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, ItalyPanel 3. Qur’anic Perspective and Other Views Two antithetical assumptions appear to be similarly implausible: that the Qur’anic vocabulary does not include Biblical and Bible-related borrowings, or that these borrowings tend not to be at least partly Arabicized, i.e.,
- [Who is Solomon of the Qur’an? An Inquiry into the Pragmatic Mind of Muhammad](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/who-is-solomon-of-the-quran-an-inquiry-into-the-pragmatic-mind-of-muhammad/) - Mustapha Tajdin, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE SAInternational Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, ItalyPanel 2. Characters, Narratives, and Strategies in the Qur’anic Text It is common Knowledge that the Qur’an is replete with ancient biblical lore. In this paper, I discuss how Solomon, the biblical figure, is
- [Confrontation between the Early Christians & their Enemies in Qur’an 61:14 & its Allusion to Luke 10](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/confrontation-between-the-early-christians-their-enemies-in-quran-6114-its-allusion-to-luke-10/) - Mohammad Ghandehari, Independent Scholar IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 2. Characters, Narratives, and Strategies in the Qur’anic Text Aṣ-Ṣaff 61:14, reporting the victory of a group of Israelites who believed in Jesus over their enemies, has been challenging for both classical commentators and modern scholars. Modern scholarship has regarded
- [Unbinding Isaac: Comedy, Critique, and Conversation between Midrash and Tafsīr](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/unbinding-isaac-comedy-critique-and-conversation-between-midrash-and-tafsir/) - Madeline Wyse, University of California – Berkeley, USA IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 2. Characters, Narratives, and Strategies in the Qur’anic Text The story of Avraham/Ibrāhīm almost sacrificing his son is a mainstay of Jewish and Islamic ritual and reflection, but this paper will focus on two passages –
- [Characters Round or Flat? Hud and Salih in Context](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/characters-round-or-flat-hud-and-salih-in-context/) - David Penchansky, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 2. Characters, Narratives, and Strategies in the Qur’anic Text E.M. Forster described two kinds of characters in stories, round and flat. A round character has complex and often contradictory motives, and is full of
- [Gnostics of Arabia: Syncretizing Indigenous Beliefs](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/gnostics-of-arabia-syncretizing-indigenous-beliefs/) - Abdulla Galadari, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy Panel 1. Scripture, Epigraphic Corpora, Gnosticism, and Beda Venerabilis There is much debate in recent scholarship about the religious attitudes of pre-Islamic Arabs, some suggesting that they were not idol-worshippers, and perhaps even espoused some forms
- [The Quṣṣāṣ of Early Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quṣṣaṣ-of-early-islam/) - Written by Lyall R. Armstrong, American University of Beirut, and published by E. J. Brill. Available for order on Brill’s website. The Islamic qāṣṣ (preacher/storyteller) has been viewed most commonly as a teller of stories, primarily religious in nature and often unreliable. Building on material of over a hundred quṣṣāṣ from the rise of Islam
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize/) - In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2016 Annual Meeting in San Antonio by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2011 or later). The prize winner will receive $250 and an expanded and edited version of the
- [2016 Year in Review & Happy 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2016-year-in-review-happy-2017/) - It’s been a fruitful year for IQSA. In 2016 we furthered our work in the Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR), helped launch the the Qur'an Seminar Commentary, and completed work on the first issue of the Journal of the International Qur'an Studies Association, now in design and production. We also welcomed hundreds of friends and colleagues from around the
- [Writing, Reading, and Hearing in Early Muslim-era Arabic Graffiti](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/writing-reading-and-hearing-in-early-muslim-era-arabic-graffiti/) - Ilkka Lindstedt, Fellow, The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Introduction Early Arabic epigraphy is a field that has yet to receive sufficient attention, although important contributions have been made by, for example, Frédéric Imbert[1] and Robert Hoyland.[2] Arabic inscriptions yield dated texts that are important, among other things, for the study of the developing Islamic
- [مستقبل الاستشراق | The Future of Orientalism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/مستقبل-الاستشراق-the-future-of-orientalism/) - يستفيضُ الدكتور عصام عيدو (Issam Eido)، الأستاذ الزائر بكليّة اللاهوت في جامعة شيكاغو، في هذا الحوار المطوّل حول قضايا ترتبطُ بشكلٍ أساسيّ بالاستشراق عمومًا، والاستشراق القرآنيّ خصوصًا، خاصّةً بعد اكتشاف مخطوطات برمنغهام للقرآن الكريم، وهو الحدث الذي أثارَ جدلًا على الصعيدين العربيّ والغربيّ، وموقف مناهج الاستشراق القرآنيّ عمومًا من التعاطي مع القرآن وتطوّرها. ولذلك قمنا
- [Summer School "The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography, and History" Tunis - National Library July 10-15, 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/summer-school-the-arabic-manuscript-codicology-palaeography-and-history-tunis-national-library-july-10-15-2017/) - The National Library of Tunisia and the University of Strasbourg, with the support of the Barakat Foundation and Max van Berchem Foundation, organize a summer school on “The Arabic Manuscript: Codicology, Palaeography and History,” in Tunis, National Library, July 10-15, 2017. The history of intellectual production, books and libraries in Tunisia is a very rich
- [IQSA Leadership 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-leadership-2017/) - The 2017 calendar year ushers in new leadership serving on the Board of Directors and Standing Committees of the International Qur'anic Studies Association. These officers, committee chairs, directors, and editors collaborate from around the globe, guiding the first learned society devoted to the study of the Qur’an in its goal to foster Qur'anic scholarship from a
- [The President's Corner](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-presidents-corner/) - I have been prevailed upon to contribute a blog during my year as President of IQSA. Never having written one before, and being innocent of things like Twitter and Facebook, I have agreed to do so uneasily. I don't know how regularly I'll be able to keep it up, but here goes: Last Sunday the
- [IQSA Call for Papers: Instructions and Updates](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-call-for-papers-instructions-and-updates/) - The Call for Papers is open for IQSA's Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 18-21, 2017. Please find details and updates about the submission process and requirements below. FAQ's Q: How do I submit a paper proposal for IQSA's 2017 Annual Meeting? A: Proposals should be submitted through the Society of Biblical
- [Suggestions for Presenting a Conference Paper at IQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/suggestions-for-presenting-a-conference-paper-at-iqsa/) - Attendance at many conferences over the years and observing the presentations of both neophytes and older scholars has proved to me that nearly no one is taught in explicit terms how to write or deliver a conference paper. For the most part scholars have learned by osmosis, watching examples, whether good, middling, or bad. It
- [Last Chance! IQSA Call for Papers 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/last-chance-iqsa-call-for-papers-2017/) - The deadline to submit paper proposals for IQSA's 2017 Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 18-21, 2017 is quickly approaching! Paper proposals are due by 11:59 PM (23:59) Eastern Standard Time (UTC -5) on March 7, 2017. Proposals should be submitted through the Society of Biblical Literature's online submission system via the affiliate
- [University of Groningen PhD Scholarship Programme](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/university-of-groningen-phd-scholarship-programme/) - PhD Scholarship Faculty Theology and Religious Studies Organisation Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has enjoyed an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative center of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Balanced study and career paths in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the 30,000 students and researchers to
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2017/) - The International Qurʾānic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the first annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by junior scholars at the 2016 annual meeting) has been awarded to Jawad Anwar Qureshi of the University of Chicago for his paper “Ring Composition, Virtues, and Qurʾanic Prophetology in sūrat Yūsuf (Q
- [“Muslim Propaganda in America” – as Ignaz Goldziher saw it](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/muslim-propaganda-in-america-as-ignaz-goldziher-saw-it/) - By Katalin Franciska Rac, University of Florida In 1894, the magazine Budapesti Szemle (Budapest Review) published an article by the world-renowned Hungarian Oriental scholar Ignaz Goldziher about Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb’s missionary work in America.[i] Goldziher gave his article the title “Muslim Propaganda in America,” which he borrowed from Webb’s book Islam in America: A
- [Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/unlocking-the-medinan-quran/) - Conference Report: International Workshop held at Pembroke College, Oxford (19–21 March 2017) The surahs and passages that are commonly associated with the Medinan period of Muhammad’s life occupy a key position in the formative history of Islam. They fundamentally shaped later convictions about the paradigmatic authority of Muhammad and thereby fueled the post-Qur’anic emergence
- [2017 Annual Meeting Early Bird Registration OPEN](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2017-annual-meeting-early-bird-registration-open/) - It's that time of year! Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts from November 18-21, 2017. Register as an affiliate member HERE. Discounted Early Bird prices end May 19, so don't wait! You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual
- [‘The Digital Muṣḥaf Project’: A New and Unique Resource for Qur’an Manuscript Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-digital-muṣḥaf-project-a-new-and-unique-resource-for-quran-manuscript-studies/) - The Oriental Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford would like to announce the launch of a new portal for viewing the dispersed fragments of early Qur’ān manuscripts called ‘The Digital Muṣḥaf Project’, which can be accessed at http://digitalmushaf.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ . Here you can view 85 folios of high
- [From Medina to Oxford, from Codex to the Cloud: Scenes from the Life of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/from-medina-to-oxford-from-codex-to-the-cloud-scenes-from-the-life-of-the-quran/) - Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford Speaker(s): Nicolai Sinai, University of Oxford; Alasdair Watson & Keith Small, Bodleian Libraries Date/Time: 30 May 2017, 4:00- 6:00 PM In a collaborative presentation, three Oxford scholars will present crucial waystations in the life of the Qur'an. Nicolai Sinai will guide the audience
- [How to Register for the 2017 Annual Meeting: Step by Step Instructions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/how-to-register-for-the-2017-annual-meeting-step-by-step-instructions/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts from November 17-20, 2017. You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member! Go HERE for Step by Step Instructions on Joining IQSA. Scroll down for Step by Strep Instructions
- [Advertising with IQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/advertising-with-iqsa/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is now extending advertising opportunities for interested publishers! See below for new print and online advertising offerings. Advertise in the Annual Meeting Program Book - Every year the International Qur’anic Studies Association holds an Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion, attracting a wide audience in the
- [IQSA Job Vacancy: Copy Editor](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-job-vacancy-copy-editor/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), a non-profit organization, seeks a copyeditor for freelance contract work on its three scholarly publication projects: JIQSA (annual journal), ISIQ (monograph series), RQR (monthly review of books). This is a deadline-driven position with overlapping seasonal workflows where diverse specialized texts require detailed technical editing in short turnaround times. Work
- [Urgent: New US Visa Restrictions before Nov 17 Boston Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/urgent-new-us-visa-restrictions-before-nov-17-boston-meeting/) - Dear Members of the International Qur'an Studies Association, In advance of the 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston one month from today (November 17, 2017), certain dual US citizens and non-US citizens should note the urgent advice below. If you have not already you need to apply for a visa to enter the United States through
- [IQSA - Promoting Scholarship & Building Bridges #GivingTuesday](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-promoting-scholarship-building-bridges-givingtuesday/) - Dear Friends, For over five years the International Qur'anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur'anic scholarship its mission. The Qur'an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. By giving to IQSA you are promoting high quality scholarship and building bridges across the globe,
- [How to Register for the 2018 Annual Meeting: Step by Step Instructions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/how-to-register-for-the-2018-annual-meeting-step-by-step-instructions/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2017. You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member! Go HERE for Step by Step Instructions on Joining IQSA. Scroll down for Step by Strep Instructions
- [New IQSA Blog Coordinator: Meet Rachel!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-iqsa-blog-coordinator-meet-rachel/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is pleased to welcome a fresh face to its Executive Office! This year, Rachel Dryden (University of Cambridge) joins the team as IQSA's new Blog Coordinator. Rachel's active commitment to IQSA's mission and subject expertise make her a valuable addition to the IQSA community. Following an undergraduate degree in modern
- [NEW IQSA Membership Option - Automatic Renewal](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-iqsa-membership-option-automatic-renewal/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association depends on its members' continued commitment to fulfill its mission by actively participating and taking advantage of member benefits like Annual Meetings, professional networking, and more! In response to popular demand and feedback for ways to ease the processing of yearly registration, IQSA is delighted to introduce its new and
- [Promoting Scholarship & Building Bridges with IQSA #GivingTuesday](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/promoting-scholarship-building-bridges-with-iqsa-givingtuesday/) - Dear Friends, For over five years the International Qur'anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur'anic scholarship its mission. The Qur'an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. By giving to IQSA you are promoting high quality scholarship and building bridges across the globe,
- [Comment after New Zealand Incident](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/comment-after-new-zealand-incident/) - On behalf of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, we offer our condolences to Muslim communities across the world after the New Zealand mosque attacks. At least one IQSA member has already confirmed that they lost a loved one in Christchurch on March 15, 2019. We are pained by this horrific incident and alarmed at the rise
- [New IQSA Blog Coordinator: Meet Justin!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-iqsa-blog-coordinator-meet-justin/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association is pleased to welcome a fresh face to its Executive Office! This year, Justin Novotny (Catholic University of America) joins the team as IQSA’s new Blog Coordinator. Justin began graduate school at the Catholic University of America in 2014. He earned his master's in Medieval and Byzantine Studies in 2016
- [Call for Nominations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-nominations-2/) - The IQSA Nominations Committee welcomes nominations for several positions. The IQSA Board of Directors needs to appoint a President Elect for 2018. Furthermore, the term of two members of the nominations committee, as well as the first term of two members of the board will expire by the end of 2017. Please see the IQSA
- [Les trois piliers de l’Islam: Une lecture anthropologique du Coran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/les-trois-piliers-de-lislam-une-lecture-anthropologique-du-coran/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research, Gabriel Said Reynolds reviews Jacqueline Chabbi’s Les trois piliers de l’Islam: Une lecture anthropologique du Coran. In this volume, Chabbi makes the case that Islam as we know it from medieval sources is not the same as Islam as it was in its original Arabian
- [Call for Papers International Meeting 2017 "Qur'anic Studies: Methods, Contexts and Interpretations"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-international-meeting-2017-quranic-studies-methods-contexts-and-interpretations/) - Académie Tunisienne des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts Département des Sciences islamiques and International Quranic Studies Association (IQSA) are co-hosting the International Qur'an Conference on "Qur'anic Studies: Methods, Contexts, and Interpretations" at the Beit al-Hikma in Carthage, Tunisia on July 4-6, 2017. Qurʾanic studies (`Ulum al-Qur'an), which developed between the 2nd/8th and 9th/15th centuries represents
- [Oral-Scribal Dimensions of Scripture, Piety, and Practice: Judaism, Christianity, Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/oral-scribal-dimensions-of-scripture-piety-and-practice-judaism-christianity-islam/) - Edited by Werner Kelber and Paula A. Sanders, this volume is the proceedings of an April 2008 conference convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The papers discussed at the conference are presented here, revised and updated. The thirteen contributions comprise the keynote address
- [REMINDERS + NOW ONLINE – Program Book for San Antonio, Nov 18-21](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminders-now-online-program-book-for-san-antonio-nov-18-21/) - Dear Friends, We are now days away from the fourth Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in San Antonio, November 18-21. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends. For a complete showcase of our events, participants and sponsors we are proud to present the official AM 2016 PROGRAM BOOK (PDF).
- [Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association مجلة الجمعية الدولية للدراسات القرآنية (Vol 1--2016)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/journal-of-the-international-quranic-studies-association-مجلة-الجمعية-الدولية-للد/) - COMING SOON...the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, Volume 1 (2016). See pricing and details below. Members will receive FREE online access to JIQSA. JOIN TODAY! © International Qur’anic Studies Association, 2016. All rights reserved.
- [مخطوطات القرآن والفيلولوجيا الرقمية: حوار مع الدكتورة البا فيديلي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/مخطوطات-القرآن-والفيلولوجيا-الرقمية/) - مخطوطات القرآن والفيلولوجيا الرقمية حوار مع الدكتورة البا فيديلي حوار وتحرير: أحمد وسام شاكر :مدخل في 22 يوليو 2015، أعلنت جامعة برمنجهام على موقعها الرسمي عن نتائج إجراء الفحص الكربوني المشع لواحدة من المخطوطات القرآنية القديمة التي تحتفظ بها مكتبة الجامعة في قسم الشرق الأوسط،وقد حقق هذا الخبر - الذي بثته البي بي سي أولاً - انتشاراً إعلامياً واسعاً في الصحافة
- [Job Vacancy: IQSA Executive Assistant (PT, Remotely)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/job-vacancy-iqsa-executive-assistant-pt-remotely/) - JOB VACANCY: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), a nonprofit organization, currently has a part-time job opening for an Executive Assistant which needs to be filled at once. The position requires about 10 hours per week and pay is $15 per hour. He/she will report directly to the Executive Director, but also work
- [Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/islamic-studies-today-essays-in-honor-of-andrew-rippin/) - Edited by Majid Daneshgar and Walid A. Saleh, this volume honours the contributions of Professor Andrew Rippin to the field of Islamic studies. It is a collection of essays on the Qur’an, qur’anic exegesis, the early history of Islam, the relationship of the qur’anic text to writings from other religious traditions, and the use of
- [IQSA--Defending Good Scholarship #GivingTuesday](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-defending-good-scholarship-givingtuesday/) - Dear Friends, For the past four years the International Qur'an Studies Association has made fostering Qur'anic scholarship its mission. The Qur'an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. By giving to IQSA you are promoting and defending good scholarship, which in turn has
- [RIP Andrew Rippin (1950-2016)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rip-andrew-rippin-1950-2016/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, Andrew Rippin passed away at his home in Victoria, British Columbia. Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria since 2013—where he was formerly Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Andrew (or Andy as he was known to some)—was an esteemed colleague, revered
- [Language and Religious Identity: The Islamization of Arabic and the Arabization of Melkite Christianity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/language-and-religious-identity-the-islamization-of-arabic-and-the-arabization-of-melkite-christianity/) - Efforts at furthering the understanding of the nature of the rise of Islam and its earliest interaction with Christianity would do well to recognize the central role of language in the shaping of religious identities. With the rise and spread of Islam, Arabic was religiously adopted, sacralized, and maximized. Prior to this, ‘arabiyya is said
- [2017 Summer School on Calligraphy and Typeface](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2017-summer-school-on-calligraphy-and-typeface/) - Need some intellectual and creative stimulation for the summer? Check out these valuable opportunities at the Kuficpedia School on Islamic Art of Kufic Calligraphy! What? 2017 Summer School on Calligraphy and Typeface Where? Ahwaz, Iran When? 14 Jun – 14 Aug 2017 This summer, Vahid M. Jazayeri will conduct 3 courses to learn Typeface and Islamic calligraphy: –
- [Annual Meeting Graduate Student Reception](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-graduate-student-reception/) - Attention current students and recent graduates! IQSA is delighted to host a special reception for students at our Annual Meeting in Boston: Date: Saturday November 18th Time: Lunch Reception, 11:30am-12:45pm Venue: TBA (Off-site) This will be a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in Qur’anic studies in a more relaxed setting–with a light lunch in a semi-private dining
- [REMINDERS + NOW ONLINE – Program Book for Boston, Nov 17-20](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminders-now-online-program-book-for-boston-nov-17-20/) - Dear Friends, We are now days away from the fifth Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in Boston, November 17-20. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends. For a complete showcase of our events, participants and sponsors we are proud to present the official AM 2017 PROGRAM BOOK (PDF).
- [CALL FOR PAPERS: IQSA Annual Meeting 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2018/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 7, 2018 (note: SBL membership is NOT required for proposal submission). Submission links can be found below under the
- [IQSA Job Vacancies: Blog Coordinator & Grant Writer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-job-vacancies-blog-coordinator-grant-writer/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), a non-profit organization, seeks both a Blog Coordinator and Grant Writer to start part-time work (2-3hrs/week) as members of the Executive Office ASAP. Work is remote-desk and may be performed from any geographical location. This is a great opportunity for those who enjoy high-performance work and are looking to
- [REGISTRATION OPEN Annual Meeting 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-open-annual-meeting-2018/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018. You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE! To become an IQSA member click HERE. Registration for the IQSA Annual Meeting does not require SBL or AAR membership. Reserve your spot before
- [The Future of Syriac Studies  and the Legacy of Sebastian P. Brock,  Sigtuna, Sweden, June 12 – 15, 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-future-of-syriac-studies-and-the-legacy-of-sebastian-p-brock-sigtuna-sweden-june-12-15-2018/) - To celebrate Sebastian P. Brock’s 80th birthday, Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy and Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden, hosted a conference on the “Future of Syriac Studies” in Sigtuna Sweden. The conference was partly funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Participants from the US and Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Japan
- [Summer School in Arabic Codicology,  at the Royal Library of the  Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial,  July 9 – 13, Madrid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/summer-school-in-arabic-codicology-at-the-royal-library-of-the-monastery-of-san-lorenzo-de-el-escorial-july-9-13-madrid/) - The fifth, consecutive, intensive summer school on Arabic Codicology: the Islamic Manuscript Heritage in the El Escorial Collection took place in Madrid, Spain from July 9 - 13. The course was led and directed by Professor Nuria de Castilla (Ecole Pratique d’Hautes Etudes, Paris), and Professor François Déroche (Collège de France, Paris). This year, participants
- [Call for Papers: The Qur’ān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-the-quran-and-ethiopia-context-and-reception/) - Submissions are solicited for a one-day symposium on ‘The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception’, which will be held at The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC USA) on Monday, April 8, 2019. Connections between the Qurʾān and Ethiopia are vast and varied. On the one hand, Ethiopia provides an important historical context (among many
- [Job Vacancy: Islamic Studies Associate Prof. | University of Cincinnati](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/job-vacancy-islamic-studies-associate-prof-university-of-cincinnati/) - The University of Cincinnati invites applications by advanced assistant and associate professors to fill the Inayat and Ishrat Malik Professorship in Islamic Studies. The position will begin in the fall of 2019. The search committee welcomes applications from scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, with research and teaching interests in such areas as Anthropology,
- [Conference and Workshop: The Translation of the Qur’ān in Indonesia - Yogyakarta, Indonesia | July 30 – 31, 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-and-workshop-the-translation-of-the-quran-in-indonesia-yogyakarta-indonesia-july-30-31-2018/) - Indonesia is not only the most populous Muslim-majority state but also one of the most multilingual ones. This is one of several reasons that make the field of Qur’ān translation in Indonesia highly interesting. Another, is the early and strong presence of reformist trends in the country that led, on the one hand, to sustained
- [Summer School in Oriental Languages: July 5 – 14, Venice, Italy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/summer-school-in-oriental-languages-july-5-14-venice-italy/) - The third Summer School in Oriental Languages, organized by the University of Lausanne, took place at Venice International University, on the island of San Sèrvolo, from July 4 – 14. This year, 33 participants from more than a dozen universities in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the USA attended courses on a
- [Workshop: The Senses in the Qur’an and in Early Islam | 26 October 2018, Utrech](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/workshop-the-senses-in-the-quran-and-in-early-islam-26-october-2018-utrech/) - The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, in collaboration with the SENSIS project, will host a workshop on the Quran’s and early Muslims’ conceptualization of the senses and sense perception. The workshop’s aim is two-fold: first, to unearth the roots of the qur’anic/early Islamic sensorium in Late Antique culture, and secondly, to
- [Suggestions for Presenting a Conference Paper at IQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/suggestions-for-presenting-a-conference-paper-at-iqsa-3/) - With the IQSA Annual Meeting quickly approaching next month, there has never been a better time to catch up on Dr. Devin Stewart's (Emory University) suggestions for effective presentations at academic conferences! Attendance at many conferences over the years and observing the presentations of both neophytes and older scholars has proved to me that nearly
- [Final Reminders & Denver Program PDF, Nov 16-19](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/final-reminders-denver-program-pdf-nov-16-19/) - Dear Friends, We are now days away from the sixth Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in Denver, November 16-19 (one day before AAR & SBL). We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends. For a complete showcase of our events, participants and sponsors we are proud to present
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2018-19](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2018-19/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2018
- [Details from Denver: 2018 Annual Meeting Conference Report](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/details-from-denver-2018-annual-meeting-conference-report/) - The sixth Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association was held in Denver this year from November 16-19, concurrent with the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature. This year once again provided an opportunity for scholars from across the academic world to come together to exchange
- [Eléonore Cellard wins Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/eleonore-cellard-wins-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2019/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the second annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by junior scholars at the 2018 annual meeting) has been awarded to Dr. Eléonore Cellard for her paper "From Coptic to Arabic: A new palimpsest for the history of the Qur’ān in Egypt
- [Call for Papers - EABS Annual Conference Warsaw 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-eabs-annual-conference-warsaw-2019/) - The Call for Papers for this year’s European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference is now open! The Conference will be taking place at the University of Warsaw, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warsaw, Poland, from Sunday, August 11th to Wednesday, August 14th 2019 followed by two days of post-conference tours. Paper proposals will be accepted until February
- [IQSA Job Vacancy: Blog Coordinator](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-job-vacancy-blog-coordinator/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), a non-profit organization, seeks a Blog Coordinator to start part-time work (2-3hrs/week) as a member of the Executive Office ASAP. Work is remote-desk and may be performed from any geographical location. This is a great opportunity for those who enjoy high-performance work and are looking to join a collaborative
- [Intensive Summer Course: Arabic Codicology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/intensive-summer-course-arabic-codicology/) - ARABIC CODICOLOGY: THE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT HERITAGE IN THE EL ESCORIAL COLLECTION FROM 17 TO 21 JUNE 2019 Due to the use of original manuscripts during the hands-on sessions, the number of students cannot exceed 16. Thus, alongside the application form, a motivation letter (1,000-1,5000 words) and a one-page CV are required and will be considered
- [2019 Annual Meeting Registration NOW OPEN!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2019-annual-meeting-registration-now-open/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in San Diego, California from November 22-25, 2019. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE! Reserve your spot before rates increase on May 23rd! To become an IQSA member click HERE. We
- [Reminder: Tangier Meeting Registration Open!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-tangier-meeting-registration-open/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its third biennial conference from July 25-26, 2019, hosted by the Tangier Global Forum of the University of New England, Tangier, Morocco. The main theme of the conference is Reading the Qur’an in the Context of Empire. REGISTRATION Conference presenters and observers should register online. There is no
- [Upcoming Summer School: Philology & Manuscripts from the Islamic World](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/upcoming-summer-school-philology-manuscripts-from-the-islamic-world/) - The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will offer its third Summer school on philology and manuscripts from the muslim world from August 20–30, 2019. This summer school is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who have an interest in handwritten materials, editing, and the tradition of editing in the Muslim world.
- [The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-eighth-north-american-syriac-symposium/) - The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium will take place on June 16-19, 2019 at Brown University. Registration is open, and information about travel and lodging can be found on the conference website. The program for the symposium has been updated. Readers of the IQSA Blog should give special attention to sessions 4C and 5B on
- [SBL 2019 International Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/sbl-2019-international-meeting/) - The Society of Biblical Literature’s 2019 International Meeting will take place from July 1- 5, 2019 in Rome, Italy at The Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Gregorian University. The SBL International Meeting is held annually outside North America. It provides a unique forum for international scholars who are unable to attend the North American meeting and
- [Conference: 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-3rd-annual-edinburgh-international-graduate-conference-in-late-antique-islamic-and-byzantine-studies/) - The 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine Studies will be held at the University of Edinburgh on November 22-23, 2019. The theme for this year’s conference is Historical inertia: Continuity in the face of change 500-1500 CE: Historical discourse has long concerned itself with patterns of change and discontinuity
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2019-20](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2019-20/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2019
- [History of Muslim-Christian Dialogue:  A five-week intensive summer course](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/history-of-muslim-christian-dialogue-a-five-week-intensive-summer-course/) - Online Summer Program ​ History of Muslim-Christian Dialogue: A five-week intensive summer course for 3 credit hours ​ Teachers: Dr Ida Glaser (Director, CMCS Houston), Dr Charles Ramsey​, (Baylor University History Faculty) Dr Martin Whittingham (Director, CMCS Oxford) Specialist lectures from Dr Rana Abu-Mounes (CMCS Oxford), Dr David Coffey (CMCS Houston), Dr David Cook (Rice University, Houston), Dr Abdul-Massih Saadi
- [IQSA Annual Meeting Student Roundtable](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-student-roundtable/) - Attention all graduate students and early career scholars! Every year the International Qur'anic Studies Association hosts a Graduate Student Luncheon at the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This event is a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts
- [Prepare for the 2020 IQSA Virtual Annual Meeting!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/prepare-for-the-2020-iqsa-virtual-annual-meeting/) - The 2020 IQSA Annual Meeting held for the first time in a new virtual format is just 10 days away! Please see below for some friendly reminders for participants and attendees as you prepare to attend. Membership & RegistrationCurrent IQSA membership is required and verified by staff upon registration for the IQSA Annual Meeting. However,
- [RSVP for the IQSA Graduate Student Roundtable](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rsvp-for-the-iqsa-graduate-student-roundtable/) - Attention all graduate students and early career scholars! Every year the International Qur’anic Studies Association hosts a Graduate Student Luncheon at the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This event is a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in Qur’anic
- [Giving Tuesday: Promoting Scholarship and Building Bridges in a Virtual World](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-promoting-scholarship-and-building-bridges-in-a-virtual-world/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, For over seven years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. IQSA is mindful of its members, partners, and friends during this difficult time, and we
- [Reminder: IQSA Graduate Student Roundtable Tomorrow](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-iqsa-graduate-student-roundtable-tomorrow/) - Attention all graduate students and early career scholars! Every year the International Qur’anic Studies Association hosts a Graduate Student Luncheon at the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This event is a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in Qur’anic
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2020-21](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2020-21/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2020
- [Reminder: Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2020-21](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2020-21/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2020
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2021/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the fourth annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2020 virtual Annual Meeting) has been awarded to Avigail Noy for her paper: "Qur’anic Imagery Between the Literary and the Literal." The winner of the Andrew Rippin
- [Workshop/Webinar: Princeton-UCLA Arabic Manuscript Workshop](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/workshop-webinar-princeton-ucla-arabic-manuscript-workshop/) - The Princeton-UCLA Arabic Manuscript Workshop will be held on August 23-27, 2021. Full details for the workshop can be found here, including signup details and a complete list of presenters. While the application process is now closed for full participation, interested readers can still sign up for the webinars online at the official website. Description:
- [Fellowship: Middle East Medievalists (MEM)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/fellowship-middle-east-medievalists-mem/) - As promised in a July 2020 Statement on Anti-Racism, the Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce the second round of applications for our new fellowship to support graduate students of color in medieval studies attending the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). In light of uncertainties
- [IQSA Graduate Student Luncheon 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-graduate-student-luncheon-2021/) - Attention current students and recent graduates! The International Qur'anic Studies Association is delighted to host a special reception for students and early career scholars at its 2021 Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Date: Saturday November 20, 2021 Time: Lunch Reception, 11:30am-1pm Venue: In Person, TBA (Off-site) This will be a valuable opportunity for graduate students and emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in
- [University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | James A. Bellamy Professorship in Early Arabic Language or Literature, Textual Traditions, and Islamic Culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-james-a-bellamy-professorship-in-early-arabic-language-or-literature-textual-traditions-and-islamic-culture/) - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | James A. Bellamy Professorship in Early Arabic Language or Literature, Textual Traditions, and Islamic Culture Deadline Nov 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for the James A. Bellamy Professorship, with an anticipated start date of
- [Echoes of Jacob of Serugh in the Qur’ān and Late Antique Reading Culture: Public Evening Event](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/echoes-of-jacob-of-serugh-in-the-quran-and-late-antique-reading-culture-public-evening-event/) - December 7, 202118:00Academy Building – GendarmenmarktEinstein Hall, Jägerstraße 22/13, 10117 Berlin An event of the long-term project "Corpus Coranicum“ member of the Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). Register Now The writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 520/1) have been highlighted as one
- [IQSA Membership for 2022 Now Open!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-membership-for-2022-now-open/) - IQSA Membership for 2022 is open! The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is the first learned society dedicated to the study of the Qur’an. We hold conferences around the world and publish cutting-edge research and scholarship. The IQSA community and its partners include scholars, students, publishers, and members of the public. Membership consists of six categories: (1)
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winner 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winner-2022/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the fifth annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2021 Annual Meeting) has been awarded to Adi Shiran for her paper: ““Bloody Wrath and Healing Touches: Joseph and his Brothers in Early Twelver Shī‛ī Tafsīr.” The winner of
- [Funding Opportunities: IQSA Palermo Annual Meeting 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/funding-opportunities-iqsa-palermo-annual-meeting-2022/) - The host of the 2022 IQSA Annual Meeting, FSCIRE (La Pira Library), will offer travel grants up to € 500 to students, PhD students, post-docs, and scholars participating in the conference to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence costs and conference fees. The grants are also accessible to those who would like to attend the meeting
- [Register NOW for Denver Early Bird Rates](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/register-now-for-denver-early-bird-rates/) - Looking to save on registration rates for this year’s IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 18-21, 2022? Register as an Affiliate Member HERE before early bird rates end on July 29th! All presenters, panel members, and other attendees MUST register to attend the Annual Meeting. Please note that registration
- [National Italian PhD Programme on Religious Studies: Call for Applications](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/national-italian-phd-programme-on-religious-studies-call-for-applications/) - The call for applications to the National Italian PhD Programme on Religious Studies is now open. Launched by 31 universities and research centers in Italy, the program offers 43 positions in 23 cities on the following areas: Buddhism and religions of Asia Christianity Islam Judaism Law and Religion Transdisciplinarity and Technological Frontier Research The Program
- [Launch: Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association,Vol.1 (2016)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/launch-journal-of-the-international-quranic-studies-associationvol-1-2016/) - IQSA is proud to announce the release of the first issue its flagship journal, the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association by Lockwood Press. JIQSA, vol. 1 (2016) is co-edited by Michael Pregill (Boston University) and Vanessa De Gifis (Wayne State University) and features new research on the Qur'an. The editors offer an insightful introductory essay on the scope and subject
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2018-2/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is proud to announce the second annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize. The Prize is awarded to the best paper delivered at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston, typically by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2012 or later). Interested scholars should submit a draft of the
- [IQSA New Year Reminders & Updates](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-new-year-reminders-updates/) - A belated Happy New Year from the International Qur'anic Studies Association! 2018 ushers in a range of new publications, exciting events, and organizational developments for the IQSA community. First and foremost, IQSA Membership for 2018 is now open! Membership consists of five levels: Student/International, Mid-range Faculty/General, Full Professor, Lifetime, and Institutional. The Student/International level is $25
- [REDUCED Prices - Advertise with IQSA!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reduced-prices-advertise-with-iqsa/) - IQSA is the first and only learned society of its kind devoted to the critical investigation of the Qur'an, encompassing a broad community of scholars, students, publishers, and members of the public. In order to foster this mission, IQSA has reduced its advertising prices to broaden the reach of relevant publications and organizations. IQSA encourages advertising
- [JIQSA V.1 Now Available on JSTOR](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-v-1-now-available-on-jstor/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, This month marks another important milestone for the International Qur'anic Studies Association. Our journal--the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA)--is now accessible through the online academic digital library JSTOR. Libraries and other institutions with a subscription to JSTOR can access JIQSA 1 (2016) HERE. This priceless partnership is the fruit of tireless years
- [NEW Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association,Vol.2 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-journal-of-the-international-quranic-studies-associationvol-2-2017/) - IQSA is proud to announce the release of the second issue of its flagship journal, the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association by Lockwood Press. JIQSA, vol. 2 (2017) is co-edited by Michael Pregill and Vanessa De Gifis (Wayne State University) and features new research on the Qur'an. The editors offer an insightful introductory essay in remembrance of Andrew Rippin, IQSA's
- [New Release: JIQSA Volume 3 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-release-jiqsa-volume-3-2018/) - Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that the third volume of the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (founding editors: Michael Pregill and Vanessa De Gifis) has just been published online, with the print version due to ship soon (http://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jiqsa). As shown by the attached Table of Contents, the issue features articles on the Meccan
- [JIQSA Volume 5 (2020) Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-volume-5-2020-now-available-2/) - IQSA is thrilled to announce that the fifth volume of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (founding editors: Michael Pregill and Vanessa De Gifis) has now been published online, with print copies due to ship soon (see also https://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jiqsa). The issue’s contents include: an obituary of the historian F. E. Peters by Reuven Firestone; an
- [HBK Symposium on Islamic Art](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/hbk-symposium-on-islamic-art/) - The 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art will take place on November 10-11 at VCUarts in Doha, Qatar. The theme of the 2019 conference is The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art. The symposium will explore the relationship between Islamic art and trade routes, migration, and travel. Among other topics, the
- [Interreligious Horizons in Psalms and Psalms Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/interreligious-horizons-in-psalms-and-psalms-studies/) - “By my God I can leap over a wall” – Interreligious Horizons in Psalms and Psalms Studies: An International Colloquium in Memory of Erich Zenger (* July 5, 1939 - † April 4, 2010) will be held on July 29-31, 2019 at Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. This colloquium has been organized by Prof. Dr. Christian
- [Call for Papers: Sharḥ, Tafsīr, and Ḥāshiya, University of Zurich](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-sharḥ-tafsir-and-ḥashiya-university-of-zurich/) - The University of Zurich will host Sharḥ, Tafsīr, and Ḥāshiya, a workshop on the form, function, and context of pre-modern commentary writing in Arabic, on June 15-16, 2020. About the workshop: The pre-modern Arabic literary landscape is full of commentaries, meta-commentaries, and auto-commentaries of various shapes and sizes, such that commentary-writing indisputably stood as one
- [Introduction to Islamic Manuscript Culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/introduction-to-islamic-manuscript-culture/) - In May 2019, UCLA hosted a workshop on Islamic manuscripts and manuscript culture sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and co-sponsored by UCLA’s Islamic Studies Program, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the California Rare Book School. Participants obtained hands-on experience
- [IQSA Annual Meeting Reminders](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-reminders/) - It’s hard to believe that we are just two months away from the seventh Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in San Diego, CA from November 22-25, 2019. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends! Please read the reminders below carefully in preparation for November’s events. IQSA sessions begin one day earlier than
- [Conference Report: Approaching Gog and Magog from Different Perspectives: A Conference on Functional, Inter(con)textual, Structural and Comparative Approaches to Gog and Magog](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-report-approaching-gog-and-magog-from-different-perspectives-a-conference-on-functional-intercontextual-structural-and-comparative-approaches-to-gog-and-magog/) - The second Conference on the apocalyptic figures, Gog and Magog, was held, from September 23 to 25, at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Preceded by a successful academic event about the eschatological idea on February 2018, the even larger conference, organized by Prof. Georges Tamer (Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Julia Eva
- [Call for Papers: Archaeology of Islamic Society [ASOR]](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-archaeology-of-islamic-society-asor/) - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) will hold its annual meeting on November 18-21, 2020, in Boston, Massachusetts. This meeting will feature a session entitled "Archaeology of Islamic Society" and will be chaired by Beatrice St. Laurent (Bridgewater State University). The session is open to any research from any period relating to the Archaeology of
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 20–23, 2020. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 11, 2019 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links can be found
- [Corovavirus Health Alert](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/corovavirus-health-alert/) - Dear Colleagues, The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is monitoring the situation closely as the Covid-19 Coronavirus continues to impact communities throughout the globe. Our mission remains to foster Qur’anic Studies, bringing about peace and mutual understanding through scholarship. At this time, the health and safety of our members and friends is our highest priority.
- [Giving Tuesday 2020: Promoting Scholarship and Building Bridges](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-2020-promoting-scholarship-and-building-bridges/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, For over seven years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. IQSA is mindful of its members, partners, and friends during this difficult time, and we
- [Corovavirus Health Alert Updates (May 2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/corovavirus-health-alert-updates-may-2020/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, As communities across the world feel the impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (Covid-19), we are mindful of the lives affected. It is during such extraordinary times of uncertainty that we remind you all, the International Qur’anic Studies Association is a community of scholars and friends. IQSA remains committed to its Mission
- [User Feedback: IQSA Video Series](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/user-feedback-iqsa-video-series/) - Last week marked the final installment in the IQSA Zoom video series designed to bring scholars and students of the Qur’an together at a time when many are in social isolation. These seminars were part of IQSA’s larger mission to advance “cutting edge, intellectually rigorous, academic research on the Qurʾan” and to be “a bridge
- [Reminder: IQSA 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-iqsa-2020-virtual-annual-meeting/) - While Covid-19 and health restrictions have changed the format of IQSA's Annual Meeting in conjunction with SBL/AAR, the meeting itself is still scheduled for November in a new and exciting format expanding its reach to scholars worldwide! Registration is open for the first ever virtual IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual
- [E-Lecture: “Who is Allah Revisited”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/e-lecture-who-is-allah-revisited/) - Duke University will host a Virtual Book Talk titled “Who is Allah Revisited” with Prof. Bruce Lawrence Tuesday on September 29 at 3:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. Description: Over the course of his
- [Qur’anic Studies in Indonesia / Studi Al-Qur’an di Indonesia, Oct 14 - Dec 30](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-studies-in-indonesia-studi-al-quran-di-indonesia-oct-14-dec-30/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA) and the Asosiasi Ilmu Al-Qur'an dan Tafsir se-Indonesia (AIAT) are happy to announce a new series of talks over Zoom: "Qur’anic Studies in Indonesia." Convenors: Johanna Pink and Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina Date and Time: October 14 – December 30, 2020. All talks will take place from 8–9pm Western
- [IQSA Virtual Annual Meeting: Reminders and Updates](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-virtual-annual-meeting-reminders-and-updates/) - The 2020 IQSA Annual Meeting held for the first time in a new virtual format is just a few short weeks away! Please see below for some friendly reminders for participants and attendees: Membership & Registration Current IQSA membership is required and verified by staff upon registration for the IQSA Annual Meeting. However, SBL/AAR membership
- [Looking Back on IQSA 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/looking-back-on-iqsa-2020/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association's Annual Meeting, usually an occasion for scholars to come together for a weekend of research and reunion, took a slightly different form this year, though still offering an opportunity to hear the latest scholarship and see (at least some) familiar faces. Rather than an in-person meeting, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted
- [Upcoming Lecture: “‘Our Father’: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s)”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/upcoming-lecture-our-father-the-medieval-abrahamic-religions/) - The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan will host a webinar featuring Sarah Strousma of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem titled “Our Father’: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s).” The webinar will begin at 12:00 PM on February 11. Description: In contemporary parlance, the term “Abrahamic religions” serves to indicate
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2021/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, TX and virtually from November 18–21, 2021. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 23, 2021 though 11:59 PM (23:59) Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) (note: IQSA
- [Online Conference: “Connecting Distant Worlds," The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), March 15-18, 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/online-conference-connecting-distant-worlds-the-international-society-for-arabic-papyrology-isap-march-15-18-2021/) - The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) will hold the eConference “Connecting Distant Worlds” online from March 15-18, 2021. A number of leading scholars in the field of Islamic history will be presenting (see program here). Participation in the conference without a paper is free, but interested participants should send a notice of intent to
- [Call for Papers: IQSA International Meeting 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-international-meeting-2021/) - Call for Papers: IQSA International Meeting 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Sicily The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its fourth biennial conference from July 4-11, 2021, hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Library (Palermo, Italy). This International Meeting will welcome papers on any topic within the range of the interests
- [Online Workshop: An Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/online-workshop-an-introduction-to-arabic-manuscripts/) - The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies is offering a free, intensive online workshop, “An Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts,” on August 23-27, 2021. The application link can be found here: https://ucla.in/3cmYvbP This week-long workshop features leading authorities on the study of Arabic manuscripts. The workshop will equip emerging scholars with the basic tools to conduct
- [Deadline Approaching: IQSA International Meeting 2021 Call for Papers](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-iqsa-international-meeting-2021-call-for-papers/) - Call for Papers: IQSA International Meeting 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Sicily The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its fourth biennial conference from July 4-11, 2021, hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Library (Palermo, Italy). This international conference will welcome papers on any topic within the range of the interests
- [Deadline Extended! IQSA International Meeting 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-extended-iqsa-international-meeting-2021/) - Due to certain circumstances, the Call for Papers deadline for IQSA's fourth biennial International Meeting held in partnership with the “Giorgio La Pira” Library and Research Centre in Palermo, Sicily has been extended to May 7, 2021. The organizing committee will send a notification of acceptance for abstracts by May 23, 2021. Please note that
- [IQSA International Meeting CfP Deadline Approaching](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-international-meeting-cfp-deadline-approaching/) - Friends of IQSA, A friendly reminder that the Call for Papers deadline for IQSA's fourth biennial International Meeting held in partnership with the “Giorgio La Pira” Library and Research Centre in Palermo, Sicily has been extended, and all paper and panel proposals are due this Friday May 7th, 2021.The organizing committee will send a notification of acceptance for abstracts by May
- [Annual Meeting Updates: Letter from the SBL Executive Director](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-updates-letter-from-the-sbl-executive-director/) - Friends of IQSA—please find a message from the Executive Director of our affiliate organization, the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), with important updates regarding this year's Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas. 6 August 2021 Dear Colleagues, SBL recognizes that the coronavirus continues to impact your planning for the Annual Meeting, and
- [RSVP to IQSA's 2021 Annual Meeting General Reception!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rsvp-to-iqsas-2021-annual-meeting-general-reception/) - The 2021 IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas from November 19–22 is only one week away! One of the highlights of the IQSA Annual Meeting is its General Reception following the Presidential Address, an opportunity for IQSA members convene over food
- [View the 2021 IQSA Annual Meeting Program Book!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/view-the-2021-iqsa-annual-meeting-program-book/) - The 2021 IQSA Annual Meeting is just 4 days away! Find all the IQSA sessions, meetings, messages from sponsors, and events in the 2021 Program Book, now available online at this link. In addition, don't forget to prepare for the meeting ahead of time! Have you downloaded the Virtual Meetings planner yet? If not, please follow
- [Summer School “The Qur’an in inter-Christian polemic” June 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/summer-school-the-quran-in-inter-christian-polemic-june-2022/) - The ERC European Research Project 'The European Qur'an' will organize a Summer School on the theme "The Qur’an in inter-Christian polemic" which will take place in Nantes, France from June 13-17, 2022. There is still time to apply to participate! Submit proposals for a 20-minute paper by December 15, 2021. Theme: How have Christian authors in Europe used
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting [SBL/AAR] 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-sbl-aar-2022/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 18–21, 2021 in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link
- [Call for Papers for Early Career Scholars: “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-for-early-career-scholars-the-qurʾan-and-syriac-christianity-recurring-themes-and-motifs/) - The ERC project “The Qurʾān as a Source for Late Antiquity” (QaSLA) invites Early Career Scholars to submit papers for the conference The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs to be held in Tuebingen, Germany from December 5-7, 2022. The three-day international conference pioneers in its focus on the relationship between the Qurʾān
- [Call for Papers: International Conference on Qur’anic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-international-conference-on-quranic-studies/) - The department of Qur’anic Studies at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies announces the call for papers for the 2020 International Conference on Qur’anic Studies to be held in Tehran, Iran from February 24-25, 2020. The organizers welcome original work from scholars at any stage of their careers, including early career researchers and PhD
- [Call for Papers: 13th Symposium Syriacum and the 11th Conference of Christian Arabic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-13th-symposium-syriacum-and-the-11th-conference-of-christian-arabic-studies/) - The call for abstracts for the 13th Symposium Syriacum and the 11th Conference of Christian Arabic Studies has been postponed until October 20, 2019, so there is still time to submit paper proposals. Presenters will be asked to present a 15-minute paper with three minutes allotted for questions. PhD Students and early career researchers are
- [Call for Papers: Syriac and Arabia Symposium (Hugoye Symposium VI)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-syriac-and-arabia-symposium-hugoye-symposium-vi/) - Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute is holding its sixth Hugoye symposium on April 24-25, 2020 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. This year’s topic is "Syriac and Arabia." While there has been much on the contribution of Syriac to the Abbasid translation movement, research on the connections between Syriac and Arabic before Islam and
- [Call for Papers: Syriac and Arabia Symposium (Hugoye Symposium VI)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-syriac-and-arabia-symposium-hugoye-symposium-vi-2/) - Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute is holding its sixth Hugoye symposium on April 24-25, 2020, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. This year’s topic is Syriac and Arabia. While there has been much on the contribution of Syriac to the Abbasid translation movement, research on the connections between Syriac and Arabic before Islam and
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Winners 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-winners-2020/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the third annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by early career scholars at the 2019 annual meeting) has been awarded to both Saqib Hussain (University of Oxford) and Andrew J. O’Connor (St. Norbert College). The winners of the Andrew Rippin Best
- [Deadline Approaching: IQSA 2020 Annual Meeting Paper Proposals](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-iqsa-2020-annual-meeting-paper-proposals/) - The deadline is approaching for the International Qur’anic Studies Association's call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 20–23, 2020! Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 11, 2020 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links can
- [Call for Papers: Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-global-islamic-archaeology-showcase/) - Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase A FREE online postgraduate and early-careers research event hosted by the Centre for Islamic Archaeology (CfIA), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter 26 September 2020 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 22 August 2020 GIAS invites early-careers researchers working within the field of Islamic archaeology and material culture to submit
- [Call for Articles for Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-articles-for-brills-encyclopaedia-of-the-quran-online/) - Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online (https://brill.com/view/db/eqo), edited by Johanna Pink (Universität Freiburg), is the world's foremost digital historical-critical reference work on the Quran. We are seeking professional scholars with demonstrable expertise in a variety of disciplines for the expansion and updating of the Encyclopaedia.Since the printed volumes of Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Quran appeared
- [Call for Papers: Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-in-the-multilingual-islamic-worlds/) - A virtual conference entitled Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s) will take place July 12-24, 2021. This conference is co-organized by Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania), David Larsen (New York University), and Hany Rashwan (University of Birmingham), and hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), University of Oxford.
- [Call for Papers: Princeton Medieval Studies Graduate Conference March 6, 2020  ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-princeton-medieval-studies-graduate-conference-march-6-2020/) - Princeton University will hold a Zoom graduate conference on March 6, 2020. The theme of the conference is: “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages.” The conference’s keynote address will be given by Professor Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Description: Loss can be accepted or contested.
- [Call for papers: Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-christianity-in-iraq-at-the-turn-of-islam-history-archaeology/) - Call for papers: Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology Abstract: An international round table organized on May 4 and 5, 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les
- [Call for Papers–Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ignaz Goldziher and his Correspondents](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-islamic-and-jewish-studies-around-the-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-ignaz-goldziher-and-his-correspondents/) - Date:November 12-13, 2021 Convenors:Kinga Dévényi (Corvinus University of Budapest, and The Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Sebastian Günther (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ) Topic: When Ignaz Goldziher passed away on November 13, 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific correspondence of over 13,000
- [Call for Papers: MESA’s 55th Annual Meeting, October 28-31, 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-mesas-55th-annual-meeting-october-28-31-2021/) - The Middle East Studies Association of North America invites and encourages submissions for its 55th Annual Meeting to be held in the fall of 2021. Submissions by students are more than welcome. MESA is a leading international forum for scholarship, intellectual exchange, and pedagogical innovation. Since its founding in 1966, it has been the hub
- [Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islamic-empire/) - The ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire is seeking papers for a conference titled “Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire”. This conference will take place on December 6-8, 2021 at the University of Leiden. Call for Papers: We invite submissions for an international conference on the language
- [Call for Papers: Archaeology of Arabia and the Archaeology of Islamic Society](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-archaeology-of-arabia-and-the-archaeology-of-islamic-society/) - ASOR is requesting paper proposals for two different conference sessions: the Archaeology of Arabia and the Archaeology of Islamic Societies. Conference Description: The ASOR 2021 Call for Papers is open, and this year the Archaeology of Arabia Session is doubling the fun: online (virtual), and in Chicago. We warmly invite you to present your research
- [CALL FOR PAPERS: “Persia and Arabia in Late Antiquity: Bridging the Ancient and Islamic” November 17-20, 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-persia-and-arabia-in-late-antiquity-bridging-the-ancient-and-islamic-november-17-20-2021/) - Event Information: ASOR Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL): “Persia and Arabia in Late Antiquity: Bridging the Ancient and Islamic,” November 17-20, 2021 Session Chairs: Arvin Maghsoudlou (Southern Methodist University), and Kyle Longworth (University of Chicago) SESSION DESCRIPTION: Scholarship has long recognized late antiquity as a transitional period separating the worlds of antiquity from those of the
- [Deadline Approaching: IQSA 2021 Annual Meeting Call for Papers](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-iqsa-2021-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/) - The Call for Papers deadline for the IQSA Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, TX from November 18–21, 2021 is quickly approaching! Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 23, 2021 though 11:59 PM (23:59) Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links
- [New Periodical: Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-periodical-journal-of-late-antique-islamic-and-byzantine-studies-jlaibs/) - Edinburgh University Press recently launched a new periodical, the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS). The JLAIBS as a hotspot for interdisciplinary dialogue aims to disseminate new approaches and methodologies that intend to transform our understanding of broader Late Antique and Medieval phenomena, such as knowledge transfer and cultural exchanges, by looking beyond
- [IQSA International Meeting: Format Updates & Reminders](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-international-meeting-format-updates-reminders/) - Due to circumstances surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the International Qur'anic Studies Association's fourth international conference from July 4-11, 2021 hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Library will be fully virtual for IQSA members. The Programming Committee extends a thanks to all participants for their understanding and flexibility during these uncertain times. The
- [Call for Submissions: "New Approaches to Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the Muslim World"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-submissions-new-approaches-to-quranic-hermeneutics-in-the-muslim-world/) - The journal Religions is planning a special issue titled "New Approaches to Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the Muslim World," guest edited by Dr. Hakan Coruh and Dr. Ismail Albayrak. Please see the following announcement for details: Special Issue Information: The Qur’an, as a basic Islamic source, and its exegesis have a special place under the broad
- [Call for Papers: Esotericism and the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-esotericism-and-the-quran/) - Esotericism and the Qur’an / L’ésoterisme et le Coran Unversity of Lausanne & University of Geneva Lausanne, May 5–7, 2022 Background and Objectives The Qur’an proclaims itself a message to all humankind (e.g. Q 14:52, This is a proclamation for all mankind . . .). This does not mean, however, that the verses of the
- [Call for Papers: International Congress for Medieval Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-international-congress-for-medieval-studies/) - The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) is the sponsor of two events at the upcoming International Congress for Medieval Studies, to convene on May 9–14, 2022. This event includes two panels relating to medieval Islam: Sociability between Justice and Tyranny Medieval Islamicate Paratexts in Contexts To submit a paper to either of these events, go
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2021-22](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2021-22/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2021
- [Reminder: Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2021-22](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2021-22/) - A friendly reminder that in honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2021 hybrid Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2016 or later). The prize winner will receive $250. In addition, the award
- [Deadline Extended: Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2021-22](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-extended-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2021-22/) - Miss the cutoff for Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize submissions? Now worries! The deadline has now been extended to Monday, January 31, 2022. In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2021 hybrid Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX by a graduate
- [Reminder: Final Deadline for Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-final-deadline-for-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize/) - A friendly reminder that the deadline for Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize submissions has been extended to Monday, January 31, 2022, meaning you still have one week left before the call closes! In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2021 hybrid Annual Meeting in San
- [Call for Papers: IQSA 2022 Annual Meeting Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre, Palermo, Italy ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-2022-annual-meeting-giorgio-la-pira-library-and-research-centre-palermo-italy/) - This year, the International Qur’anic Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in Palermo, Italy, hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library on September 5-7, 2022. Paper proposals should be submitted to iqsa@fscire.it by March 7, 2022. Please note that the IQSA membership is required for proposal submission (see below). The 2022 Annual Meeting welcomes
- [EXTENDED DEADLINE: IQSA 2022 Annual Meeting Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre, Palermo, Italy ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/extended-deadline-iqsa-2022-annual-meeting-giorgio-la-pira-library-and-research-centre-palermo-italy/) - Attention Friends of IQSA! We are happy to inform you that panel and paper submission deadlines for the IQSA 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo have been extended! IQSA Members now have until March 7th, 2022 to submit paper and panel proposals via email to iqsa@fscire.it.This year, the International Qur’anic Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in Palermo, Italy, hosted by the Giorgio
- [Reminder: Submit Papers for IQSA/SBL/AAR 2022!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-submit-papers-for-iqsa-sbl-aar-2022/) - A friendly reminder that in addition to IQSA's Annual Meeting in Palermo this September, members also have the opportunity to present or participate in IQSA's Affiliate SBL/AAR Annual Meeting! The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 18–21, 2021 in
- [Deadline Approaching! IQSA Annual Meeting 2022 CfP](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-iqsa-annual-meeting-2022-cfp/) - Attention Friends of IQSA! A friendly reminder that the new, extended deadline to submit paper and panel proposals for the IQSA 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo is just one week away—March 7th, 2022! To submit paper and panel proposals, email to iqsa@fscire.it. This year, the International Qur’anic Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in Palermo, Italy, hosted
- [Deadlines Approaching! IQSA Annual Meetings 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadlines-approaching-iqsa-annual-meetings-2022/) - The Call for Papers submission deadlines for both of IQSA's Annual Meetings are fast approaching! First, the extended deadline to submit paper and panel proposals for the IQSA 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo is just 3 days away—March 7th, 2022! To submit paper and panel proposals, email to iqsa@fscire.it. This year, the International Qur’anic Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2023](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2023/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 17-20, 2023. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 14, 2023 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links can be found below under the
- [Deadline TODAY! Call for Papers - IQSA Annual Meeting 2023](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-today-call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2023/) - Today is the deadline to submit paper proposals for IQSA's Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 17-20, 2023. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 14, 2023 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Paper proposals will be accepted through 11:59 PM (23:59) US Eastern
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2019/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California from November 22–25, 2019. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 6, 2019 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links
- [Deadline Approaching: Call for Papers Annual Meeting 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/deadline-approaching-call-for-papers-annual-meeting-2019/) - Only TWO DAYS remains to submit your abstracts for IQSA's 2019 Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California from November 22–25, 2019. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 6, 2019 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links can be found
- [Results: IQSA International Meeting Accepted Presenters](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/results-iqsa-international-meeting-accepted-presenters/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce the accepted presenters for its third biennial conference from July 25-26, 2019, hosted by the Tangier Global Forum of the University of New England, Tangier, Morocco. This year's Call for Papers brought in hundreds of submissions, and the International Programming Committee had the daunting task
- [New Book Project from Gorgias Press: Library of Arabic and Islamic Heritage](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-project-from-gorgias-press-library-of-arabic-and-islamic-heritage/) - Classical Islamic Texts Series Call For Book Submissions Gorgias Press and The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) are delighted to announce the launch of an important new academic book project: the Library of Arabic and Islamic Heritage مكتبة التراث العربي والاسلامي. The project will make available to academics, independent scholars and
- [Call for Papers: Sacred Troubling Topics–Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-sacred-troubling-topics-hebrew-bible-new-testament-and-quran/) - CFP: This proposed collection has already reached the stage of publisher commitment and has many contribution commitments in hand. However Qur'anic Studies contributions are still being solicited. Contact for questions, thoughts, proposals: Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, roberta.sabbath@unlv.edu Chapter Abstract and C.V. Due: June 15 Paper Due: September 1 Length: 8-10,000 words Title:
- [Call for Papers: Beyond “Jewish-Muslim Relations”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-beyond-jewish-muslim-relations/) - From May 19-20, 2020, the Jewish-Muslim Research Network (JMRN) will host a conference at the University of Manchester entitled “Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations.” The keynote speakers will be: Najwa al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University), Seth Anziska (University College London), Yulia Egorova (Durham University), and Brian Klug (Oxford University) Call for Papers: Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations’ invites scholars of
- [Schedule of Events: IQSA 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/schedule-of-events-iqsa-2020/) - The Virtual Annual Meeting of the International Qur'anic Studies Association is only one short month away! From November 30 to December 10, scholars from over a dozen countries and universities across the globe will meet to share their scholarship in 9 different panels. Registration is still open for this meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in a
- [SBL and AAR Virtual Annual Meetings Platform](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/sbl-and-aar-virtual-annual-meetings-platform/) - The SBL and AAR Virtual Annual Meetings Platform is now live on your computer! You can search and browse all of the sessions and publishers who are participating. After you log in, you can start to build your own schedule. Much more functionality will be unveiled once the Virtual Annual Meeting starts! To log into the Virtual
- [View the 2020 IQSA Program Book!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/view-the-2020-iqsa-program-book/) - The 2020 IQSA Annual Meeting is just one day away! Find all the IQSA sessions, meetings, and events in the 2020 Program Book, now available online at this link. Questions? Email contactus@iqsaweb.org!
- [Bring your questions for IQSA to the General & Business Meetings!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/bring-your-questions-for-iqsa-to-the-general-business-meetings/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, Today IQSA members and the general public will have the opportunity to gather virtually as a group for the IQSA Annual Business and General Meetings. As we are not able to convene in person this year, this will be a valuable opportunity for members and the wider community to converse in a
- [Access IQSA Annual Meeting Recordings](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/access-iqsa-annual-meeting-recordings/) - The IQSA Annual Meeting is well underway with 8 panel sessions and special events already conducted as of this afternoon! If you are a registered attendee but were unable to make a session, recordings are available online through the Virtual App/Desktop Planner just like a live session through January 31, 2021. Simply navigate to the
- [Reminder: IQSA Elections 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-iqsa-elections-2020/) - Attention IQSA members, A friendly reminder that given the unprecedented circumstances, this year’s IQSA elections are being conducted online. Each active member will be polled for their vote exclusively through the IQSA members portal via your unique login. The election will close on December 9, 2020 at 12pm EST. Election results will be announced at
- [IQSA Closing Session: Annual Meeting 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-closing-session-annual-meeting-2020/) - The first ever Virtual Annual Meeting of the International Qur'anic Studies Association will come to a close tomorrow, Thursday December 10, after a successful program of special events, addresses, and panels with scholars from around the globe. IQSA thanks its affiliates at the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion, in addition to
- [Happy New Year from IQSA!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/happy-new-year-from-iqsa-2/) - For over seven years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. Despite significant interruptions and changes due to the Covid-19 health crisis, it has still been a fruitful year for
- [IQSA 2020 Annual Meeting Survey](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2020-annual-meeting-survey/) - Dear friends of IQSA, As a learned society, IQSA is committed to understanding its members’ opinions and shaping our academic activities in a way that responds appropriately to them and advances our mission. To that end, we are turning to you for input on our meetings. This *short* (15 question) survey asks you to offer insights on
- [Reminder: Complete the IQSA Meeting Survey by February 28!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminder-complete-the-iqsa-meeting-survey-by-february-28/) - Friends of IQSA, As our organization plans its upcoming meetings and conferences, we need YOUR feedback on everything from past formats to features to further IQSA's mission of bringing scholars from the globe together to advance the academic study of the Qur'an. To that end, please complete this *short* (15 question) survey, which asks for your insights on our regular annual meetings.
- [Conference: Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an ?](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-umayyad-syria-a-context-for-the-quran/) - IQSA is excited to announce an upcoming conference hosted by the University of Strasbourg: Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an? Please see the English/French announcement below for details, including details on how to register and watch the conference online. La Syrie omeyyade, un contexte pour le Coran ? Colloque international interdisciplinaire Université de Strasbourg,
- [IQSA Annual Meeting Reminders & Updates](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-reminders-updates/) - Are you presenting or attending the 2021 International Qur’anic Studies Association’s Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, TX from November 18–21, 2021? Don't forget to register by September 23rd before regular rates increase! IQSA members can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate
- [Virtual Tools: IQSA Annual Meeting 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/virtual-tools-iqsa-annual-meeting-2021/) - IQSA looks forward to gathering next week both in person and virtually to convene its 15th Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion. For those participants joining us virtually, please find important information about online tools and technical support below: The mobile app and online planner are
- [IQSA Annual Meeting Recordings](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-recordings/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association’s 2021 Annual Meeting held online in San Antonio, Texas concluded last week, marking IQSA's 15th conference held in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. The 2021 Annual Meeting was the first of its kind—a hybrid conference with both in person and virtual attendees
- [A Year in Sum: IQSA 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-year-in-sum-iqsa-2021/) - Despite continued challenges posed by by the global pandemic, it’s been a fruitful year for the International Qur’anic Studies Association. IQSA held its fourth biennial conference from July 4-11, 2021, hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Library (Palermo, Italy) for the first time in a completely virtual format. In addition, IQSA saw another first in
- [Registration NOW OPEN IQSA/SBL/AAR Annual Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-now-open-iqsa-sbl-aar-annual-meeting/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 18-21, 2022. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE! Reserve your spot before rates increase on May 27th! To become an IQSA member click HERE. We
- [Super Saver Registration Deadline Approaching](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/super-saver-registration-deadline-approaching/) - Looking to save on registration rates for this year's IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 18-21, 2022? Register as an Affiliate Member HERE before super saver rates end on May 27th! All presenters, panel members, and other attendees MUST register to attend the Annual Meeting. ANNUAL
- [Program Now Available! IQSA 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-now-available-iqsa-2022-annual-meeting-in-palermo/) - The program is now available for the International Qur’anic Studies Association's 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo, Italy from September 5-7, 2022! iqsa2022_palermo_fullprogram-2Download Hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre, this program features Keynote Lectures by Roberto Tottoli (University of Naples L’Orientale), Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg), and Fred Donner (University of Chicago), in addition to a variety of
- [Register Before Fees Increase! IQSA in Palermo 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/register-before-fees-increase-iqsa-in-palermo-2022/) - A friendly reminder to register for IQSA's 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo, Italy by Thursday, June 30th before rates increase! This meeting takes place in person from September 5-7, 2022, hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre (Palermo, Italy). Conference registration fees are structured as follows: Registration by the end of June: 140
- [Last Day to Register with Early Bird Rates!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/last-day-to-register-with-early-bird-rates/) - A friendly reminder to register for IQSA's 2022 Annual Meeting in Palermo, Italy today before rates increase tomorrow! This meeting takes place in person from September 5-7, 2022, hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre (Palermo, Italy). Conference registration fees are structured as follows: Registration by the end of June: 140 $Registration by
- [International Conference: Epigraphy, the Qur'an, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/international-conference-epigraphy-the-quran-and-the-religious-landscape-of-arabia/) - Conference The University of Tübingen Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity Research Project team announces "Epigraphy, the Qur'an, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia" to be held September 8–10, 2022. This three-day international conference will bring together specialists in epigraphy as well as scholars of the Qurʾān with the aim of exploring how recent
- [Reminders & Updates: IQSA Denver Annual Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminders-updates-iqsa-denver-annual-meeting/) - The IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature is one short week away (November 18-22, 2022)! Please find friendly reminders and updates below as you prepare to present or attend the conference. ANNUAL MEETING FAQs Q: Can I still register for the IQSA Annual Meeting?
- [IQSA North American Program Book & Annual Report Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-north-american-program-book-annual-report-now-available/) - Looking for details on IQSA's 2022 North American Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion? Find the Denver conference schedule, presenter bios, abstracts, reports, and more in the 2022 Program Book! Find the full SBL/AAR schedule and program book here, and don't forget to download the
- [Annual Meeting 2023](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2023/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association’s Annual Meeting will be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 17-20, 2023 in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. ANNUAL MEETING FAQs Q: What are the dates of IQSA’s Annual Meeting?A: The IQSA Annual Meeting begins and ends November 17-20, 2023 one day before the regular SBL/AAR Meeting. Q: How do I register for the
- [IQSA Membership 2016 Now Open!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-membership-2016-now-open/) - IQSA Membership for 2016 is now open. Membership consists of three levels: Student/International, Mid-range Faculty/General, Full Professor. The Student/International level is $25 (USD) for student and international (non-North American residents) scholars. The Mid-range Faculty/General level is $50 (USD) for all non-student scholars, professionals, and mid-range faculty. The Full Professor level is $75 (USD) for full professors.
- [How to Join IQSA: Step by Step Instructions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/how-to-join-iqsa-step-by-step-instructions/) - You've decided to join the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA), the first learned society dedicated to the critical investigation of the Qur'an! Follow these step by step instructions referring to the screenshots to register as a member. If you encounter problems, please email us at contact@iqsaweb.org. Step 1: Open a broswer and go to IQSA's
- [IQSA Annual Meeting in Boston: Preliminary Schedule Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-in-boston-preliminary-schedule-now-available/) - IQSA has an exciting program lined up for the Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The preliminary program book is now available! To view the full schedule and abstracts please visit the Annual Meeting 2017 page HERE. For a preview of exclusive IQSA events, see below! The IQSA Annual Meeting in Boston is scheduled to take place November
- [NEW Membership Tiers: Institutional & Lifetime](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-membership-tiers-institutional-lifetime/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is pleased to announce the addition of two new membership tiers: Institutional and Lifetime Membership. These levels are NOW AVAILABLE for registration and have been introduced by the Board of Directors to further IQSA's mission of facilitating collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies across parties around the world. LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP
- [Introducing our Inaugural Lifetime Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/introducing-our-inaugural-lifetime-members/) - Dear friends across the globe, Today is another proud and historic day for the International Qur'an Studies Association (IQSA). It is with great honor that I welcome IQSA's inaugural Lifetime Members. They are: Professor Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Director of National and International Outreach, Library of Congress, and President Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College; as well as Professor
- [End of 2017 Reminders, Happy 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/end-of-2017-reminders-happy-2018/) - It’s been a fruitful year for IQSA. In 2017 we furthered our work in the Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR), awarded the first winner of the Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize, published the first issue of the Journal of the International Qur’an Studies Association, and held the second biennial International Meeting in Carthage, Tunisia. We also welcomed hundreds of friends
- [Survey: IQSA Annual Meeting User Experience](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/survey-iqsa-annual-meeting-user-experience/) - As the 2018 IQSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (November 16-19) approaches, the International Qur'anic Studies Association seeks feedback from its members and affiliates on last year's Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Glance back at the 2017 Program Book, reflect on your experience last November, and take THIS SURVEY! Your feedback is very important to IQSA and
- [RSVP to IQSA Denver Receptions!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rsvp-to-iqsa-denver-receptions/) - It's hard to believe that we are just two months away from the sixth Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in Denver, CO from November 16-20, 2018. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends! Please read the reminders below carefully in preparation for November's events. IQSA sessions begin one day before the
- [Annual Meeting Reminders - Denver 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-reminders-denver-2018/) - The 2018 IQSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado is just days away, commencing THIS Friday, November 16th at the Denver Convention Center, where over 1,000 events will take place, featuring more than 130 publishers and some 10,000 attendees! Read below for important reminders in anticipation of IQSA's exciting program this year. IQSA sessions begin one day
- [2018 IQSA Lifetime/Institutional Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2018-iqsa-lifetime-institutional-members/) - Dear friends across the globe, Today is another proud and historic day for the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA). It is with great honor that I acknowledge two new lifetime members and one new institutional IQSA member as of November 2018. IQSA welcomes the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE) as its inaugural institutional member. CMJE is
- [2019 IQSA Lifetime/Institutional Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2019-iqsa-lifetime-institutional-members/) - It is with great honor that IQSA acknowledges two new lifetime members and one new institutional IQSA member as of January 2019. IQSA welcomes the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE) as its inaugural institutional member. CMJE is a tripartite partnership of the Hebrew Union College, the Umar Ibn Al-Khattab Foundation, and the University of Southern California.
- [New Benefits: IQSA Institutional Membership](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-benefits-iqsa-institutional-membership/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is pleased to announce the addition of new benefits for IQSA's Institutional Members. Institutions can now provide collective access to the Review of Qur'anic Research in addition to IQSA's flagship Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association by becoming IQSA institutional members. Access to these resources for institutions is the result of
- [Skip the Hassle—Enable Automatic Membership Renewal!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/skip-the-hassle-enable-automatic-membership-renewal/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association depends on its members' continued commitment to fulfill its mission by actively participating and taking advantage of member benefits like Annual Meetings, professional networking, and more! In response to popular demand and feedback for ways to ease the processing of yearly registration, IQSA is delighted to introduce its new and
- [San Diego Program Now Available](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/san-diego-program-now-available/) - The conference schedule for IQSA's 2019 Annual Meeting in San Diego held in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion is now available online! Click here for details on presenters, panels, sessions, and abstracts. Remember that you can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings
- [New IQSA Discussion Group Platform](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-iqsa-discussion-group-platform/) - Greetings friends of IQSA! As you might have seen, Yahoo has made the decision to discontinue the Yahoo Groups service and platform previously used for the International Qur'anic Studies Association's discussion group. As of December 14, all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. Users have until that date to save any content uploaded by downloading
- [New IQSA Discussion Group Platform](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-iqsa-discussion-group-platform-2/) - Greetings friends of IQSA! As you might have seen, Yahoo has made the decision to discontinue the Yahoo Groups service and platform previously used for the International Qur'anic Studies Association's discussion group. As of December 14, all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. Users have until that date to save any content uploaded by downloading
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 1 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-1-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research (vol. 6, no.1), Naomi Koltun-Fromm (Haverford College) reviews Robert C. Gregg's Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). In her review, Koltun-Fromm writes "In this rather hefty tome, Robert Gregg sets out to share
- [JIQSA Volume 4 (2019) Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-volume-4-2019-now-available/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.4 2019 (Lockwood Press) edited by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford University). Volume four is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on members.iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by signing up for membership HERE. Institutions wishing to subscribe for print
- [IQSA Contact Information Update](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-contact-information-update/) - Attention IQSA Members, Friends, and Affiliates, The International Qur'anic Studies Association has migrated its main point of contact via email to a new address. For inquiries about membership, meetings, resources, advertising, or any other topic, please email contactus@iqsaweb.org and allow for 2-3 business days for the IQSA team to respond. We look forward to continuing to foster
- [IQSA Call for Nominations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-call-for-nominations/) - Dear IQSA members, affiliates, and friends, I am writing as the chair of the nominating committee in order to solicit recommendations for suitable persons for leadership positions within IQSA. It is with great pleasure that I can report that over the past years, based on your recommendations and those of the nominations committee, IQSA has
- [Welcoming New IQSA Lifetime Member: Abdulla Galadari](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/welcoming-new-iqsa-lifetime-member-abdulla-galadari/) - It is with great honor that the International Qur'anic Studies Association welcomes a new lifetime member: Abdulla Galadari (Khalifa University of Science & Technology). Abdulla has had different incarnations in the past, before settling in his present one. His previous academic and professional training was fully emerged in engineering, sciences, and mathematics earning Civil Engineering
- [Statement regarding allegations of sexual abuse](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/statement-regarding-allegations-of-sexual-abuse/) - It has come to our attention that allegations of sexual abuse have been made against one of our members. The International Qurʾanic Studies Association has a zero-tolerance policy for all forms of discrimination, harassment, and abuse. We are committed to providing a safe environment for our members and strictly enforce our Professional Conduct Policy. Any
- [JIQSA Volume 5 (2020) Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-volume-5-2020-now-available/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.5 2020 (Lockwood Press) edited by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford University). Read the announcement below! Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce that the fifth volume of the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (founding editors: Michael Pregill and Vanessa De Gifis)
- [Member Benefits: IQSA Publications](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/member-benefits-iqsa-publications/) - Did you know that active membership in the International Qur'anic Studies Association comes with research benefits? IQSA members receive full access to periodicals featuring the latest research from experts in the field, including the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (JIQSA) and the Review of Qur’anic Research The Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer-reviewed
- [Giving Tuesday 2021: Support IQSA's Global Scholarship](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-2021-support-iqsas-global-scholarship/) - DONATE NOW Dear Friends of IQSA, For over eight years the International Qur’anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur’anic scholarship its mission. The Qur’an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. IQSA is mindful of its members, partners, and friends during
- [In Memoriam, Keith Small (1959-2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/in-memoriam-keith-small-1959-2018/) - By Daniel A. Brubaker, Ph.D. Keith Edward Small, scholar of Qurʾan manuscripts who made significant contributions to the field of Qurʾan textual criticism, passed away early morning Thursday, December 6, 2018 in Oxford, UK, having been admitted to hospital earlier in the week. Keith was diagnosed in 2016 with AL Amyloidosis, a rare blood disorder without known cure
- [2019 Reminders & Updates](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2019-reminders-updates/) - A belated Happy New Year from the International Qur’anic Studies Association! 2019 ushers in a range of new publications, exciting events, and organizational developments for the IQSA community. HOW TO SAVE MONEY THIS YEAR Attending conferences and accessing quality scholarship cost money--but we have got you covered, (1) with versatile "five tiered" IQSA membership, and
- [Giving Tuesday: Promoting Scholarship and Building Bridges](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/giving-tuesday-promoting-scholarship-and-building-bridges/) - For over six years the International Qur'anic Studies Association has made fostering Qur'anic scholarship its mission. The Qur'an is an integral part of world literature, and it has shaped and continues to shape the world in which we live. By giving to IQSA you are promoting high quality scholarship and building bridges across the globe, which in
- [Congratulations to IQSA Board Members Johanna Pink and Holger Zellentin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/congratulations-to-iqsa-board-members-johanna-pink-and-holger-zellentin/) - We are proud to announce that on December 10, 2019, IQSA board members Johanna Pink and Holger Zellentin each received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for research projects in the field of Qur’anic Studies. ERC Consolidator Grants provide around two million euros over a period of five years to a researcher,
- [End of 2019 IQSA Reminders, Happy 2020!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/end-of-2019-iqsa-reminders-happy-2020/) - It’s been a fruitful year for the International Qur'anic Studies Association. In recent years we have published three issues of the bilingual, flagship Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (JIQSA 2016-2018), with issues four and five slated for release 2019-2020. We have also successfully published two books: A Qur’anic Apocalypse by Michel Cuypers (2018) and New Trends
- [Holiday Break: IQSA Executive Office](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/holiday-break-iqsa-executive-office/) - On behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association, we wish all of our colleagues, friends, and affiliates a safe and pleasant winter holiday. Please note that the Executive Office will be observing administrative recess from Sunday, December 22nd to Thursday, January 2nd. We appreciate your patience as our staff and volunteers take a short respite,
- [IQSA Email Inquiries Update](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-email-inquiries-update/) - IQSA members and affiliates—it has come to the attention of the Executive Office that the address listed for email inquiries, contact@iqsaweb.org, is currently undergoing technical difficulties and bouncing messages. The IQSA team is currently working to get this error resolved and will update members and affiliates on its progress. In the meantime, please send all
- [Holiday Break: IQSA Executive Office](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/holiday-break-iqsa-executive-office-2/) - Happy Holidays! On behalf of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, we wish all of our colleagues, friends, and affiliates a safe and pleasant winter holiday. Please note that the Executive Office will be observing administrative recess from Wednesday, December 23rd to Sunday, December 27th. We appreciate your patience as our staff and volunteers take a
- [Welcoming IQSA's New Executive Director: Hythem Sidky](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/welcoming-iqsas-new-executive-director-hythem-sidky/) - On behalf of the IQSA board of directors, it is a great pleasure to announce that Dr. Hythem Sidky has been appointed as the International Qur'anic Studies Association's new Executive Director. He will succeed Dr. Emran El-Badawi, who co-founded IQSA and has been Executive Director since its inception. Hythem combines expertise in the sciences with a
- [IQSA Executive Office Winter Break](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-executive-office-winter-break/) - Please be advised that the IQSA Executive Office will be closed in observance of the winter holidays from Thursday, December 23rd to Sunday, January 2nd. Email correspondence at contactus@iqsaweb.org and other services will resume Monday, January 3rd. On behalf of the IQSA staff, we hope all our members and friends have a safe and pleasant
- [IQSA Zoom Seminar #6 Ahmad al-Jallad, "Pre-Islamic Arabic Inscriptions and Qur'anic Orthographies"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-zoom-seminar-6-ahmad-al-jallad-pre-islamic-arabic-inscriptions-and-quranic-orthographies/) - Check out the sixth installment in the series of IQSA Corona Qur’an Seminars on Zoom (#IQSAZoom), in which Ahmad al-Jallad (Ohio State University) presents on "Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions and Qur'anic orthographies." Read more about these free resources at https://iqsaweb.org/videos/, and don't forget to continue the discussion on social media by using the hashtag #IQSAZoom! Seminars
- [The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-golden-calf-between-bible-and-quran/) - The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis From Late Antiquity to Islam Michael E. Pregill Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions A compelling exploration of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic understandings of the account of the Golden Calf Contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of the relationship between Bible and Qur'an The first
- [Freiburg Conversations on Tafsir & Transregional Islamic Networks, Summer 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/freiburg-conversations-on-tafsir-transregional-islamic-networks-summer-2020/) - Freiburg conversations on tafsir and transregional Islamic networks, summer 2020 Hosted by Majid Daneshgar and Johanna Pink Please register *HERE*. You will be sent an invitation to the Zoom meeting by email. All sessions have a duration of 75 minutes including a discussant’s statement and a Q&A period. Please note that, in order to accommodate speakers
- [New Publication: 'Muhammad and the Empires of Faith' by Sean Anthony](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-muhammad-and-the-empires-of-faith-by-sean-anthony/) - University of California Press has recently released a publication of interest to IQSA members and affiliates: Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam by Sean Anthony (April 2020). Overview In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in
- [Recent Publication: Rediscovering the Islamic Classics by Ahmed El Shamsy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-rediscovering-the-islamic-classics-by-ahmed-el-shamsy/) - Princeton University Press has recently published a new book on Islamic intellectual history of interest to IQSA members and affiliates: Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy (February 2020). Publisher's Overview Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 6 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-6-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no.6), Ilkka Lindstedt (University of Helsinki) reviews Nicolai Sinai's Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler: Allāh in Pre-Quranic Poetry (New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 2019). In his review, Ilkka writes "Nicolai Sinai’s small book, or essay, is a very welcome contribution to the study of the
- [New Publication: Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship (Viva Books, 2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-recent-trends-in-quranic-scholarship-viva-books-2020/) - Viva Books has recently published a new book of interest to IQSA members and affiliates: Recent Trends in Qur’anic Scholarship by Tauseef Ahmad Parray (2020). PUBLISHER'S OVERVIEW Qur’anic Studies’ (al-Dirasat al-Qur’aniyya) is a remarkable and noteworthy academic sub-genre in the area of Islamic studies to which Muslims and non-Muslims have contributed extensively. Qur’anic scholarship has
- [New Publication: Structural Dividers in the Qur'an, ed. Marianna Klar](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-structural-dividers-in-the-quran-ed-marianna-klar/) - In October, Routledge will publish a new book of interest to IQSA members and affiliates: Structural Dividers in the Qur’an, edited by Marianna Klar. Publisher’s Overview: 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
- [Recent Publication: Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-qurʾan-quotations-preserved-on-papyrus-documents-7th-10th-centuries/) - Brill has recently published a collection of essays edited by Andreas Kaplony and Michael Marx, Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries. Publisher’s Overview: Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries is the first book on the Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben, i.e. on how the Qurʾān was quoted in Arabic original letters, legal
- [Recent Publication: Impostures, translated by Michael Cooperson (NYU Press)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-impostures-translated-by-michael-cooperson-nyu-press/) - NYU Press has recently published a “groundbreaking” translation of Al-Ḥarīrī entitled Impostures: Fifty Rogue’s Tales Translated Fifty Ways by Michael Cooperson. Publisher’s Overview: An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Impostures follows
- [Recent Publication: A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-a-history-of-the-islamic-world-600-1800/) - Routledge has recently published a new survey of Islamic history by Jo Van Steenbergen, A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800: Empire, Dynastic Formation, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia. Publisher’s Overview: A History of the Islamic World, 600–1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 7 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-7-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no.7), Michael E. Pregill (University of California, Los Angeles) reviews Stephen Shoemaker's The Apocalypse of Empire: Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). In his review, Pregill writes "Stephen Shoemaker’s The Apocalypse of Empire builds
- [New Publication from Gorgias Press: ASH'ARISM ENCOUNTERS AVICENNISM: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-from-gorgias-press-asharism-encounters-avicennism-sayf-al-din-al-amidi-on-creation/) - IIQSA is delighted to announce a new publication from its institutional partner, Gorgias Press titled Ash‘arism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation by Laura Hassan. Readers can find details on the publication below and purchase a copy at this link! Series: Islamic History and Thought 19 Publication Date: Jul 28,2020 Interior Color: Black Trim Size: 6 x 9 Page
- [Podcast: Professor Shady Nasser on the Transmission of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/podcast-professor-shady-nasser-on-the-transmission-of-the-quran/) - The Minding Scripture podcast, hosted by IQSA’s own Gabriel Reynolds, recently featured an interview with Professor Shady Nasser on the transmission of the Qur’an. Description: “While you might be aware of Islamic tradition regarding the revelation of the Qur’an to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel, have you ever wondered how it was recorded and transmitted?
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 8 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-8-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no 8), Waleed Rikab (Rice University) reviews Daniel Beck's Evolution of the Early Qurʾān: From Anonymous Apocalypse to Charismatic Prophet (New York: Peter Lang, 2018). In his review, Rikab writes “Recent scholarship, especially following the contributions of Angelica Neuwirth and Nicolai Sinai, has increasingly stressed
- [Website Launch—Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/website-launch-khamseen-islamic-art-history-online/) - On October 20, 2020, Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online launched. Khamseen is a free and open-access online platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture. It is sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) at the University of Michigan through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 9 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-9-2020/) - In In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no 9), Nora K. Schmid (University of Oxford) reviews Sean W. Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020). In her review, Schmid writes "What do we know about Muḥammad? How
- [New Publication: Structural Dividers in the Qur’an, Routledge 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-structural-dividers-in-the-quran-routledge-2021/) - IQSA is happy to announce the publication of a new edited volume, Structural Dividers in the Qur’an, edited by Marianna Klar. This volume contains essays by a number of eminent Qur’an scholars from the IQSA community. Publisher’s Overview: This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur’anic
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 7 no. 2 (2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-2-2021/) - In the second installment of this year’s the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7 no.2), Mona Siddiqui (University of Edinburgh) reviews Carlos A. Segovia's The Quranic Jesus: A New Interpretation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). In the review, Siddiqui writes "Using a style and lens similar to "The Quranic Noah" (2015), this book is Carlos A. Segovia’s
- [New Publication: Revelation in the Qur’an (Brill, 2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-revelation-in-the-quran-brill-2021/) - Brill has recently published a new book in its Texts and Studies on the Qur’an series: Revelation in the Qur’an: A Semantic Study of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y by Simon Loynes. Description: In Revelation in the Qur’an, Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to
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- [New Publication: "Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam" by Joachim Jakob (Innsbruck Tyrolia, 2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-syrisches-christentum-und-fruher-islam-by-joachim-jakob-innsbruck-tyrolia-2020/) - Tyrolia recently published "Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam. Theologische Reaktionen in syrisch-sprachigen Texten vom 7. bis 9. Jahrhundert" (Syriac Christianity and Early Islam: Theological Reactions in Syriac Texts from the 7th to 9th Centuries) by Joachim Jakob. Interested readers may purchase the book here. Author's Description The emergence and rapid spread of Islam posed a
- [New Online Resource: The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-online-resource-the-historical-index-of-the-medieval-middle-east/) - The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME) is a new research tool for exploring the people, places, and practices of the most diverse part of the premodern world, through primary sources chosen from a wide range of literary languages and cultures. A series of webinars will introduce HIMME to scholars by exploring some
- [Upcoming Publication: Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500 (Bloomsbury, 2022)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/upcoming-publication-christian-muslim-relations-600-1500-bloomsbury-2022/) - Bloomsbury is set to release a new anthology in January, 2022, The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500, edited by David Thomas. Interested readers can pre-order here. Description: This reader brings together 50 extracts from the major works left by Christians and Muslims that reflect their reciprocal knowledge and attitudes. It spans the early 7th
- [New Publication: Jews and the Qur’an (Princeton U. Press, 2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-jews-and-the-quran-princeton-u-press-2021/) - Princeton University Press recently published Jews and the Qur’an by Meir Bar-Asher (2021). Interested readers can purchase the book here at the publisher’s website. Publisher’s Description: In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur’an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical
- [New Publication–The Quran: Keyword Collocations (Gorgias Press, 2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-the-quran-keyword-collocations-gorgias-press-2021/) - Gorgias Press recently published The Quran: Keyword Collocations by Elie Wardini. IQSA readers can find more information and purchase the book here. Publisher’s Description: This bundle brings together the 16 volumes of Elie Wardini's The Quran: Key Word Collocations. The aim of these volumes is to present the Quran as raw data with as little
- [NEW Review of Qur'anic Research (Vol. 7, no.6)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-6/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7, no.6), Gordon Nickel reviews W. Richard Oakes Jr., The Cross of Christ: Islamic Perspectives (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020). In the review, Nickel writes "In the middle of his translation of several traditions from al-Ṭabarī’s (d. 310/923) interpretation of Q al-Nisāʾ 4:157, Richard Oakes presents a story that would likely
- [IQSA On-Demand!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-on-demand/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association offers a variety of traditional resources to further its mission, including academic journals, book reviews, and collected works; but did you know that IQSA also has a collection of video content? In the recent shift to digital scholarship, IQSA sponsored new series of virtual seminars to continue building bridges amongst
- [New Publication: 'Mary in the Qur'an—Friend of God, Virgin, Mother'](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-mary-in-the-quran-friend-of-god-virgin-mother/) - An entire surah of the Qurʾan bears her name. She is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qurʾan. After Moses, Abraham, and Noah, Mary is also the person most frequently named in the Qurʾan; in other words, her name appears more frequently than those of either Muhammad or Jesus. She is portrayed in
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 7 no. 7 (2021) ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-7-2021/) - In In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7, no.7), Devin J. Stewart (Emory University) reviews Sarah R. bin Tyeer's The Qur'an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). In the review, Stewart writes "I have attended several presentations by Islamic art historians in which they purported to present an Islamic
- [New Publication: Solomon and the Ant (Wipf and Stock, 2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-solomon-and-the-ant-wipf-and-stock-2021/) - IQSA Member and Professor Emertius at the University of Saint Thomas, David Penchansky, has recently published a book in the field with Wipf and Stock, Solomon and the Ant (2021). Solomon and the Ant, using the Bible as a dialogue partner, examines stories from the Qur’an, their drama, characters, and meaning. Although some qur’anic stories
- [NEW Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 8 no. 1 (2022) ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-review-of-quranic-research-vol-8-no-1-2022/) - In the first installment of Volume 8 of IQSA's Review of Qur'anic Research (2022), Saqib Hussain (University of Oxford) reviews Martin Whittingham's A History of Muslim Views of the Bible: The First Four Centuries (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021). In the review, Hussain writes "In this compact book, Martin Whittingham presents the historical beginnings of Muslim attitudes
- [Qur'an Tools: A New Free Online Resource](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quran-tools-a-new-free-online-resource/) - Qur'an Tools, a powerful web platform for the critical study of the Qur'anic text, is now available for free online! Qur'an Tools is a labour of love, the result of thousands of hours of work by a dedicated team led by IQSA members Dr. R. Michael McCoy and Dr. Andrew G. Bannister. Visit http://quran-tools.com to search passages,
- [NEW Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 8 no. 2 (2022) ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-review-of-quranic-research-vol-8-no-2-2022/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 8, no.2), Ana Davitashvili (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), reviews Joachim Jakob's Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam: Theologische Reaktionen in syrisch-sprachigen Texten vom 7. bis 9. Jahrhundert (Innsburck: Tyrolia-Verlag, 2021). In the review, Davitashvili writes "Joachim Jakob’s book Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam: Theologische Reaktionen in syrisch-sprachigen Texten vom
- [JIQSA Volume 6 (2021) Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-volume-6-2021-now-available/) - IQSA is thrilled to announce that the sixth volume of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (founding editors: Michael Pregill and Vanessa De Gifis) has now been published online, with print copies due to ship soon (see also https://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jiqsa). The issue’s contents include: Sinai, Nicolai. Obituary: Alan Jones (1933–2021). JIQSA 6 (2021): 5-7. Shnizer, Aliza. Obituary: Uri Rubin (1944–2021).
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 8 no. 3 (2022) ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-8-no-3-2022/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 8, no.3), Devin J. Stewart (Emory University) reviews George Archer, A Place Between Two Places: The Qurʾānic Barzakh (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2017). In the review, Stewart writes "In A Place between Two Places: The Qurʾānic Barzakh, George Archer addresses the term barzakh and the associated conception of
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 8 no.4 (2022)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-8-no-4-2022/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 8, no.2), Holger Zellentin (University of Tübingen) reviews Simon P. Loynes' Revelation in the Qur’an: A Semantic Study of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y (Leiden: Brilll, 2021). In the review, Zellentin writes "Simon P. Loynes’s monograph, Revelation in the Qur’an, is based on a 2019 PhD dissertation at
- [Tayyar Altıkulaç and His Contributions to Qur’ānic Manuscript Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tayyar-altikulac-and-his-contributions-to-quranic-manuscript-studies/) - By Ahmed Shaker* The study of early Qur’ānic manuscripts emerged in academia as early as the late 18th century. François Déroche identifies the origins of this quest with the Danish theologian and orientalist Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834). Adler, who was fascinated by Kūfic inscriptions, spent time studying early Qur’ānic fragments kept at the Det
- [Publisher's Corner: Lockwood Press](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publishers-corner-lockwood-press/) - Lockwood Press is proud to be partnering with the International Qur’anic Studies Association in the publication of both the IQSA Journal (Vanessa De Gifis, editor) and its new series, IQSA Studies in the Qur’an (David Powers, editor). The first volume scheduled for the new series is A Qur’anic Apocalypse by Michel Cuypers, to appear in
- [Psychological Readings of the Qurʾan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/psychological-readings-of-the-qurʾan/) - By Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame) In his 1996 work Dieu et l’homme dans le Coran the French Dominican scholar Jacques Jomier devotes a chapter to ”The Psychological Certainty of Muslims” (“La certitude psychologique du musulman”). The premise of this chapter is that Muslims are especially confident of the truth of their
- [Publication Announcement: Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur’ānic Exegesis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication-announcement-philosophical-perspectives-on-modern-quranic-exegesis/)
- [Mizan Special Issue: “The Evolution and Uses of the Stories of the Prophets”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/mizan-special-issue-the-evolution-and-uses-of-the-stories-of-the-prophets/) - Michael Pregill Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations Boston University The new issue of Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations has just been published and is now online at http://www.mizanproject.org/journal/. The thematic issue, “The Evolution and Uses of the Stories of the Prophets,” coincides with the fiftieth
- [Dr. Tauseef Ahmad Parray's "Towards Understanding Some Qura’nic Terms, Concepts, and Themes"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/dr-tauseef-ahmad-parrays-towards-understanding-some-quranic-terms-concepts-and-themes/) - Synopsis: Towards Understanding Some Qura’nic Terms, Concepts, and Themes provides an excellent opportunity to gain or renew acquaintance with the meaning and message of such a masterpiece as the Qur’an. It helps readers prepare better to understand the Islamic scripture. Dr. Parray has carefully assessed the needs and wants of English speaking readers. For his work
- [Marginal Notes on: ASWS 73 — the root HGR in pre-Islamic Arabic Ahmad Al-Jallad∗](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/marginal-notes-on-asws-73-the-root-hgr-in-pre-islamic-arabic-ahmad-al-jallad∗/) - The meaning of the root hgr in Arabic has attracted much attention recently, especially with regard to the meaning of the word muhājir as it is used in the Qur’an and early Islamic texts; see for example Lindstedt 2015. The meaning ‘to migrate’ in Arabic has come under scrutiny and I was asked on Twitter if it was attested in
- [The Status Quaestionis of ʿArabiyyah, Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Quran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-status-quaestionis-of-ʿarabiyyah-pre-islamic-poetry-and-the-quran/) - By Marijn van Putten∗ When speaking about the language of the Quran, it is these days almost universally accepted that it was composed in the ʿArabiyyah, a poetic koine that functioned as an intertribal form of communication of high poetic culture.[1] This ʿArabiyyah was close – if not identical – to what eventually came to be
- [Two Free Online Courses on the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/two-free-online-courses-on-the-quran/) - Contributor: Holger Zellentin We are excited to announce two new initiatives presenting the Qur’an in between Judaism and Christianity: a new MOOC starting January 15, 2018, and the immediate online publication of a related lecture series. Both projects were sponsored by the British Academy, the University of Nottingham and the Karimia Institute, and convened by
- [Reading is Believing? Sacred Texts in a Scientific Age (26-28 March 2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reading-is-believing-sacred-texts-in-a-scientific-age-26-28-march-2018/) - DATE AND TIME Mon, 26 Mar 2018, 16:00 – Wed, 28 Mar 2018, 14:00 BST LOCATION Clare College, University of Cambridge Trinity Lane Cambridge CB2 1TL United Kingdom How have the scriptural traditions of Islam and Christianity been interpreted in the modern age? In particular, what challenges have been posed to the Bible and Qur'an by
- [Podcast Series: Introducing the Qur’ān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/podcast-series-introducing-the-quran/) - Professor Nicolai Sinai, of the University of Oxford, has recorded four short talks funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council which aim to introduce the general public to aspects of current research on the Qur'ān's historical context and literary character. These are now available as podcasts online here: Link: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/introducing-quran Although most IQSA
- [Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum: The Qur’ān in Translation – A Survey of the State of the Art | December 5 – 7, 2018, Berlin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/preliminary-considerations-on-the-corpus-coranicum-christianum-the-quran-in-translation-a-survey-of-the-state-of-the-art-december-5-7-2018-berlin/) - The Corpus Coranicum project requires little introduction to the readers of this blog. Its emerging daughter project, hosted by the FU Berlin, Corpus Coranicum Christianum, developed out of the doctoral research conducted by Manolis Ulbricht, co-supervised by Angelika Neuwirth, on the early Greek translation of the Qurʾān preserved in Nicetas of Byzantium’s Refutation of the
- [The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-qurʾan-and-ethiopia-context-and-reception/) - The Catholic University of America extends an open invitation to next week's symposium The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception. The symposium will take place on Monday April 8, 2019 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM in May Gallery, Mullen Library. This event is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Christian
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 1 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-1-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.1), Devin Stewart (Emory University) reviews Karim Samji's The Qur'ān: A Form-Critical History (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018). In his review, Stewart writes "The urge to provide an inventory of the types of speech included in the Qurʾān is an old one. As Karim Samji points out, in one
- [JIQSA Updates: New Look & Publishing Partner](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-updates-new-look-publishing-partner/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association
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- [European Academy of Religion 6th Annual Conference](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/european-academy-of-religion-6th-annual-conference/) - The European Academy of Religion is pleased to announce its sixth Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) June 19-23, 2023. The conference will be hosted by the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology and Australian Catholic University. The theme for this year’s gathering is Religion from the Inside, with keynote lectures planned by Prof.
- [Society of Biblical Literature Supports Exploration of Qur'an Scholar Network](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/society-of-biblical-literature-supports-exploration-of-quran-scholar-network/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE SUPPORTS EXPLORATION OF QUR’AN SCHOLAR NETWORK ATLANTA, May 29, 2012 – The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) has been awarded a $140,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support a three-year consultation that will explore the formation of an independent network of Qur’anic scholars. This international consultation
- [IQSA in the News](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-in-the-news/) - By Gabriel Reynolds The establishment of a consultation dedicated to the foundation of a learned society for Qurʾanic Studies– the International Qurʾanic Studies Association (IQSA) – was announced on May 29, 2012. Since that time a number of media outlets have published articles on IQSA, which will become the first learned society dedicated to the study of
- [Qur'anic Studies around the World](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-studies-around-the-world/) - By Emran El-Badawi There are several research projects, journals, conferences and other initiatives dedicated to the academic study of the Qur'an around the world. One of IQSA's goals is to give scholars from these different international initiatives the opportunity to meet regularly. The Qur'an Seminar meets 5 times throughout 2012-13 at the University of Notre
- [Notes on Website Translations of the Qurʾan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/notes-on-website-translations-of-the-qurʾan/) - By Gabriel Reynolds Perhaps the most obvious way in which studying the Qurʾan in the internet age differs from that of ages past is the ease of accessing numerous translations of the Qurʾan. In his 1953 article “Some Minor Problems in the Qurʾān,” Franz Rosenthal analyzes 46 different translations of the term al-ṣamad (Q 112:2).
- [An Open Letter to Members of SBL](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/an-open-letter-to-members-of-sbl/) - Since its press release in May 29, 2012 the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) has received the support of the academy as well as the public. In the months following, the media took much interest in IQSA, as well as SBL’s instrumental role in supporting this Qur’anic Studies initiative. Thanks to this widespread recognition, university
- [Write a Guest Blog Post](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/write-a-guest-blog-post/) - By Emran El-Badawi Are you currently working on a new publication or academic project on the Qur’an? Do you have innovative historical, scientific or artistic insights on the Qur’an that you would like to share? If so, you should consider writing a guest blog post for IQSAWEB. It's easy. All you need to do is
- [Qur'anic Cross References and Tafsir al-qur'an bi-l-qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-cross-references-and-tafsir-al-quran-bi-l-quran/) - By Mun'im Sirry [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zneH1g3U8cg] A part of the Qur’an Seminar, a year-long initiative directed by Gabriel S. Reynolds from the University of Notre Dame, is to develop a project on cross-references of the Qur’an. This cross-references project will provide for nearly every verse in the Qur’an a selection of other verses which shed light upon,
- [Two Unique Translations of the Qurʾan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/two-unique-translations-of-the-qurʾan/) - By Gabriel Reynolds If you can’t judge a book by its cover perhaps you can by its title. The “Hilali-Khan” translation of the Qurʾan is entitled Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Qurʾan in the English Language: A Summarized Version of At-Ṭabarī, Al-Qurtubi and Ibn Kathir with comments from Sahih al-Bukhari. With this title
- [On Qur'anic Studies and 'Ulum al-Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/on-quranic-studies-and-ulum-al-quran/) - By Emran El-Badawi The Qur'an is not merely the scripture that gave birth to Islamic Tradition but also--in the words of the late Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (d. 2010)--a "discursive text." Its eloquence, argumentation and history engaged generations of Muslim scholars who dedicated numerous monographs and essays to different studies on the Qur'an. early scholars
- [A Quick Overview of the November Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-quick-overview-of-the-november-meeting/) - By Emran El-Badawi IQSA held its first organizational meeting over two days on November 18-19, 2012, which coincided with the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) as well as the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The directors and steering committee had a fruitful discussion concerning the future of IQSA and put several
- [Translating John Wansbrough…into English](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/translating-john-wansbroughinto-english/) - By Gabriel Reynolds At a recent academic conference, during a dinner with a group of Qurʾan scholars, the topic of our conversation turned to the work of John Wansbrough. During the conversation one of our group asked,“But when is someone going to translate Wansbrough . . . into English?” In fact Wansbrough’s writing is famously
- [Some Prominent Women Qur'an Scholars](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/some-prominent-women-quran-scholars/) - By Emran El-Badawi Qur'anic Studies is, now more than ever, a discipline wherein women scholars have demonstrated groundbreaking expertise and leadership. In the western academy especially, Muslim and Non-Muslim women have helped give shape to the discipline itself. Among the former are scholars like Ingrid Mattson, former president of the Islamic Society of North America
- [Looking Forward to Baltimore 2013](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/looking-forward-to-baltimore-2013/) - By Emran El-Badawi The International Qur'anic Studies Association has been making great progress moving towards our first public meeting in Baltimore on November 22-26, 2013. Last month's organizational meeting was a great success and has served as a fruitful platform for us to work towards 2013, especially planning a keynote lecture, reception and a small number of
- [Translation and Exegesis: Travis Zadeh’s The Vernacular Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/translation-and-exegesis-travis-zadehs-the-vernacular-quran/) - By Michael Pregill The claim that Muslims do not translate the Qur'an, or rather that a translation of the Qur'an is not really the Qur'an at all but only a dim approximation of the basic sense of the text, has often been repeated by scholars. This notion has even informed the production of translations by
- [PhD Students in Qur’anic Studies: Interview Series Part 1](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/phd-students-in-quranic-studies-interview-series-part-1/) - A conversation between Mehdi Azaiez and Tommaso Tesei Since its creation, IQSA has been defined as a network of a diverse range of scholars and educators, serving to advocate for the field of Qur’anic studies both in higher education and in the public square. Within this scope, IQSA will present three interviews over the following weeks
- [Reciprocal Speech between Noah and his People in the Qur'an |  التقاول بين نوح وقومه في القرآن (Interview Series Part 2)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reciprocal-speech-between-noah-and-his-people-in-the-quran-التقاول-بين-نوح-وقومه-في-ال/) - By Mehdi Azaiez and Abdelmajid Benhabib This week IQSA continues its interview series with a second PhD student in Qur’anic studies, Abdelmajid Benhabib (University of Victoria, Canada/University of Tlemcen, Algeria). Abdelmajid gave us a glimpse into his doctoral research on ‘al-Taqāwul (roughly translated as "Reciprocal Speech") between Noah and his people in the Qur’an. We thank
- [The Qur’an and Historical Anthropology: Reading Jacqueline Chabbi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quran-and-historical-anthropology-reading-jacqueline-chabbi/) - By Esma Hind Tengour and Mehdi Azaiez* Approaching a sacred text through the lens of historical anthropology requires seeing how the text is invested in the time and the social and human environment from which it emerged. Jacqueline Chabbi has worked to develop an application of this historical-anthropological approach to the Qur’an for over twenty
- [Self-Referentiality and Argumentation within the Qur’anic Text (Interview Series Part 3)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/self-referentiality-and-argumentation-within-the-quranic-text-interview-series-part-3/) - An Interview with Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, by Mehdi Azaiez This week IQSA continues its interview series with Dr. Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, postdoctoral fellow in Islamic Studies (University of Gronigen). In this interview, Boisliveau presents her achievements and research in self-referentiality and argumentation within the Qur’anic text. Dr. Boisliveau, how did you become a Qur’anic scholar? When I started studying political sciences
- [Divergence in Qur’an Translations: Causes and Examples](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/divergence-in-quran-translations-causes-and-examples/) - By Sohaib Saeed* The translation of the Arabic Qur’an into the languages of the world has received the broad acceptance of Muslim scholars since the middle of last century, though the practice of translating the whole Qur’an extends back to the sixteenth century or earlier. The original missionary goals were replaced by those of academic research, as well
- [Qur’an Manuscripts and the History of the Qur’an (Interview Series Part 4)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quran-manuscripts-and-the-history-of-the-quran-interview-series-part-4/) - An Interview with Eleonore Cellard, by Mehdi Azaiez This week IQSA continues its interview series with Eleonore Cellard, PhD student in Qur’anic codicology at the Institut National des langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris. In this interview, Eleonore Cellard presents her achievements and research in the transmission of Qur’anic manuscripts in early Islam. Eleonore, what are your
- [Rhetoric and Representation in Qurʾanic Polemics (Interview Series Part 5)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rhetoric-and-representation-in-qurʾanic-polemics-interview-series-part-5/) - An Interview with Hamza M. Zafer, by Mehdi Azaiez This week IQSA continues its interview series with Hamza M. Zafer, PhD student in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. In this interview, Zafer presents his research on the Qur'an's polemical discourse and its articulation of a distinct communal consciousness — the ummah. Can you tell
- [The Throne Verse ('āyat-l-kursī) in Light of Rhetorical Analysis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-throne-verse-ayat-l-kursi-in-light-of-rhetorical-analysis/) - By Mehdi Azaiez During the first meeting of the Qur’an Seminar in October of 2012 (an academic project dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of the Qur’anic text, hosted at the University of Notre Dame), I proposed a particular reading of the throne verse based on rhetorical analysis. This method, which was developed by Michel Cuypers,
- [New! A Bibliography of Qur'anic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-a-bibliography-of-quranic-studies/) - By Andrew Rippin Following is the text of my foreword to Morteza Karimi-Nia, Bibliography of Qur’anic Studies in European Languages (Qum: Center for Translation of the Holy Quran [CTHQ], March 2013). The bibliography is comprised of 8812 entries; as described in Karimi-Nia’s introduction, it is an exhaustive bibliography of books and articles published in English, French,
- [The Qur’anic Manuscripts of the Mingana Collection and their Electronic Edition](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quranic-manuscripts-of-the-mingana-collection-and-their-electronic-edition/) - By Alba Fedeli 1. Birmingham: Qur’anic Manuscripts in the Mingana Collection Fifteen years ago my late mentor, Sergio Noja Noseda, showed me a few ancient Qur’anic parchments published by Giorgio Levi Della Vida in his 1947 catalogue. Those images were the starting point for Noja Noseda’s studies in Qur’anic manuscripts when he was a young
- [The Search for Heretics: Christianity and the Qurʾan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-search-for-heretics-christianity-and-the-qurʾan/) - By Gabriel Reynolds The tradition of western scholarship on the “sources” of the Qurʾan is usually traced to Abraham Geiger’s 1833 work, Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen (“What did Muhammad Take up from Judaism?”). While Geiger’s work is focused on the Jewish sources of the Qurʾan, others would soon write works focused on
- [IQSA at SECSOR 2013: Roundtable Discussion on Carl Ernst, How to Read the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-at-secsor-2013-roundtable-discussion-on-carl-ernst-how-to-read-the-quran/) - By Michael Pregill IQSA co-sponsored a panel at the recent meeting of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR), a regional affiliate of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the American Schools of Oriental Research. The panel, held on March 17, was a roundtable dedicated to a discussion
- [Planning begins for Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān: Supplement](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/planning-begins-for-encyclopaedia-of-the-qurʾan-supplement/) - By Jane McAuliffe When the discussions surrounding the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān commenced in 1993 the scholarly world was a different place from the one we find ourselves in today. It hardly needs to be stated that public attention to the Islamic world has increased considerably over the past two decades, and publishing houses have
- [Our International Meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/our-international-meeting-in-st-andrews-scotland/) - By Emran El-Badawi and Gabriel Reynolds The International Qur'anic Studies Association is happy to announce its first international meeting, taking place in St. Andrews, Scotland, from July 8-10, 2013. IQSA will be co-sponsoring a number of panels on the Qur'an with the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as a public lecture by Dr. Alain George. Please
- [Understanding Meaning in the Sound of the Recited Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/understanding-meaning-in-the-sound-of-the-recited-quran/) - By Lauren Osborne The following is a brief synopsis of my recent work on the recitation of the Qur’an. The topic of my dissertation is central to the Qur'an's self-presentation as an oral text and to its role in the lives of believers, yet one that has for the most part been overlooked by scholarship.
- [Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/integrated-encyclopedia-of-the-quran/) - Press ReleaseApril 13, 2013Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’anEdited by Muzaffar Iqbal et al Volume 1 (A—Bea) • January 2013 • 408 pages • 30 illustrations • HC • $295.00 ISBN 978-1-926620-00-8 ISBN for the 7-Volume Set: 978-1-926620-06-0 The Center for Islamic Sciences (www.cis-ca.org) announces publication of the first volume of the Integrated Encyclopedia of the
- [Le Coran et l’éthique du décentrement](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/le-coran-et-lethique-du-decentrement/) - By Dr. Selami Varlik* Selami Varlik is a researcher who recently defended his thesis on Qur’anic hermeneutics (“Qur’anic Hermeneutics and Objectivity of Meaning: The Philosophical Critique of Fazlur Rahman in Contemporary Turkey”). He is currently a member of the “fond Ricoeur” in Paris and recently taught philosophy at Istanbul 29 Mayis University. In this article, he
- [Save the Date - Friday, November 22](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/save-the-date-friday-november-22/) - By Emran El-Badawi Last December IQSA announced its first annual meeting to be held in Baltimore this November. We are now happy to share with you the details of our meeting's exciting first day. Those planning to attend should keep in mind that the first day of our meeting will be on Friday, November 22 (i.e. one
- [First International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/first-international-symposium-on-rethinking-the-quran/) - By Andrew Rippin ANKARA—On May 3-5, 2013, the Research Institute for Philosophical Foundations of Disciplines (İlim Dallarının Düşünce Temellerini Araştırma Enstitüsü) in Ankara sponsored the First International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur’an. With papers presented by fifty-one participants from about twenty countries worldwide, and with attendance topping 200 people—more than 50% of whom were women—this
- [On the Qur'an and Authority | عن القرآن والسلطان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/on-the-quran-and-authority-عن-القرآن-والسلطان/) - By Ali Mabrouk* In this article, professor Ali Mabrouk describes how the Qur'an was transformed from a text open to the full range of human inquiry and participation into an instrument of political authority by an elite. He describes how the Qur'an itself was subjected to the dispute between Sunni and Shi'a, and how the
- [Our Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD (Full Schedule and Registration Details)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/our-annual-meeting-in-baltimore-md-full-schedule-and-registration-details/) - By Emran El-Badawi and Gabriel Reynolds (With special thanks to Charles Haws) The International Qur'anic Studies Association is happy to announce the full schedule of its first annual meeting, taking place in Baltimore, MD from November 22-24, 2013. You may recall our earlier announcement informing you about our exciting program for the first day. See the
- [The Traditions on the Composition of ‘Uthmān’s muṣḥaf.](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-traditions-on-the-composition-of-uthmans-muṣḥaf/) - By Viviane Comerro Viviane Comerro is Professor of Islamic Studies at INALCO (Paris). This blog is a synopsis of its French book titled “Les traditions sur la composition du muṣḥaf de ‘Uthmān”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 2012 When and how did the Quran become a book? Even though paleography and codicology provide us with useful elements that
- [Update - Public Lecture on Tuesday, July 9](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/update-public-lecture-on-tuesday-july-9/) - By Emran El-Badawi and Gabriel Reynolds On April 9th we announced our first international meeting to be held in St. Andrews, Scotland this July. We would like to share with you an update concerning the public lecture on Tuesday, July 9th. Dr. Alain George--senior lecturer of Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh--will do us the
- [Who is The Real Speaker?](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/who-is-the-real-speaker/) - By Maryam Mosharraf Numerous grammatical tropes and rhetorical mysteries of Sura al-Fatiha have always been a great point of interest. We are not going to take a grammar course however, we want to talk to God. But is there any real dialogue with God in the seven verses of al-Fatiha which Muslims use in their
- [The Qurʾān, A New Annotated Translation, by A. J. Droge](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-qurʾan-a-new-annotated-translation-by-a-j-droge/) - Equinox recently published a new translation and annotation of the Qur’an which has attracted considerable interest and which may become a useful textbook in the field of Islamic Studies. Details on the book and an option to order can be found on the book home page. Customers in North American can order directly from Equinox’s US
- [Partial taping on kalāla in one early muṣḥaf](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/partial-taping-on-kalala-in-one-early-muṣḥaf/) - By Daniel Brubaker The earliest Qur’āns represent a tangible anchor to the early history of Islam. Some of the manuscripts we have today are very early, in one case having been radiocarbon-dated with 99.2% probability to 675.5 AD or earlier.[1] In my forthcoming doctoral dissertation, I explore the range and types of scribal change that
- [Our New Look](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/our-new-look/) - By Emran El-Badawi and Gabriel Reynolds Our newly designed website is now online, and we hope visitors find it practical, as well as elegant. A number of helpful improvements were made, including translating the “About Us” page into Arabic, Turkish, Bhasa and French. Translations into further languages will soon follow. We hope this to be
- [Upcoming Colloquia in the UK](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/upcoming-colloquia-in-the-uk/) - Thanks to Nicolai Sinai and Mehdi Azaiez Islamic Studies Colloquium CLAIMING TRADITION: MODERN REREADINGS OF THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC HERITAGE Organisers: Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad Khan, Christopher Melchert, Nicolai Sinai Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford. OX1 1DW Date: 27-28 September 2013 Both the resurgence of Islamist politics and the political, social, and intellectual upheaval accompanying the Arab Spring
- [The Inapplicability of Non-Muslim Rule, a Qur'anic Perspective | عدم جواز ولاية غير المسلمين....التوجيه القرائي للقرآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-inapplicability-of-non-muslim-rule-a-quranic-perspective-عدم-جواز-ولاية-غير-المسلم/) - 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 that they apply to followers of all prophets and no one particular prophet. He also distinguishes it from the narrower, popular use of those terms in subsequent history to include only followers of Muhammad alone.
- [How do you distinguish fā’ from qāf in early Qur’ān manuscripts?](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/how-do-you-distinguish-fa-from-qaf-in-early-quran-manuscripts/) - By Keith Small IQSA is providing a significant platform for the exploration of paleographic and orthographic features in early Qur’ān manuscripts. Recent blogs by Alba Fedeli and Daniel Brubaker have provided windows into some of the cutting edge research in Qur’ān manuscript studies. At the recent joint SBL/IQSA track at the SBL International meeting in
- [Online Lecture by Frédéric Imbert](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/online-lecture-by-frederic-imbert/) - 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 online university Canal Académie here. The brief audio lecture, given in French, covers interesting new material regarding early Islamic graffiti that was discovered in Saudi Arabia in November of 2012. © International Qur’anic Studies Association,
- [The Qur'an and the Syriac Bible (link)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quran-and-the-syriac-bible-link/) - "Islamic tradition paints a picture of Islam's origins in a pagan environment, and Western scholars have often assumed that Mecca in the time of Muhammad was an outpost of decadent, polytheistic idolaters. Yet for its part the Qurʿan is more interested in the Bible than it is in paganism. The Qur'an refers to Jesus 25 times, to Abraham 69 times, and to Moses no fewer
- [A Course on the Qur'an as Literature](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-course-on-the-quran-as-literature/) - By Emran El-Badawi I offered an undergraduate course last spring for the first time on the Qur’an as Literature. My goal was simple, I wanted my students to read the text closely and interpret its verses themselves. Their apprehension, at first, to commit to this bold exercise soon gave way to an ease and skill
- [Roll Call: Join the Facebook event for IQSA's Baltimore Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/roll-call-join-the-facebook-event-for-iqsas-baltimore-meeting/) - This week, we ask our readers to visit our Facebook page, where there is now an event posted for our day of inaugural events in Baltimore, MD, on Friday, November 22nd. The event includes a panel on ancient manuscripts, a keynote lecture by Dr. Aziz al-Azmeh with a response by Dr. Jane McAuliffe, and an opening
- [Modern Women Exegetes of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/modern-women-exegetes-of-the-quran/) - A recent doctoral dissertation in Qur'anic studies, titled "Modern Women Exegetes of the Qur’an: Gender Perspectives on the Creation Narrative, Qiwama and Polygamy in Modern Women’s Exegeses" is summarized in Arabic below. The author, Mohamed Saleck Mohamed Val, defended his dissertation in Fez, Morocco this past July. He is a Mauritanian scholar with an M.A. in Women’s
- [Video Lecture: "Islamic Origins: Messenger and Message"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/video-lecture-islamic-origins-messenger-and-message/) - A video of the full lecture, "Islamic Origins: Messenger and Message," by Dr. Benjamin Geer is available through the Middle East Institute (MEI), here.* Geer completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and his research employs a combination of sociology and cognitive linguistics. For more on Geer's work, including a download of
- [A New Project for an Etymological Dictionary of the Qurʾan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-new-project-for-an-etymological-dictionary-of-the-qurʾan/) - Prof. Salih Akdemir, of Ankara University in Turkey, presented at the First International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur'an earlier this year (on which Dr. Andrew Rippin reported for IQSA here). His paper, "Linguistic Approaches to the Qur'an: Contribution to Creating a Great Dictionary of the Qur'an" brought attention to an issue that he frames in the
- [Qur'ans of the Umayyads: Interview with Dr. François Déroche](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/qurans-of-the-umayyads-interview-with-dr-francois-deroche/) - By Dr. Keith Small Prof. François Déroche, one of the leading scholars in Arabic manuscript studies, has a new book due out this October: Qur’ans of the Umayyads, A Preliminary Overview, (Leiden, Brill, 2013, 226+46 ill. ISBN 9789004255654). Early Qur'anic manuscript studies is a lively and growing discipline in the academy, and Déroche's contributions have been essential reading—substantial
- [Coming soon: The 110th volume of Études Arabes](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/coming-soon-the-110th-volume-of-etudes-arabes/) - 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 periodicals deal with different aspects of Muslim-Christian discourse—Islamochristiana printing research articles and Encounter having a more pastoral scope. Études Arabes, on the other hand, focuses on a single topic, which is treated as a monograph. As such, it
- [Claiming Tradition Colloquium at Pembroke College, Oxford](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/claiming-tradition-colloquium-at-pembroke-college-oxford/) - By Nicolai Sinai OXFORD—In doing modern Islamic intellectual history, it is easy to succumb to the temptation to concentrate one’s analytic efforts mainly on the specifically “modern” aspects of the thinkers and texts in question. In part, this may simply result from identifying one’s subject as “modern Islamic and/or Arabic thought,” extending, as it does,
- [Write for IQSA!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/write-for-iqsa/) - Would you like to see your work featured in this space? IQSA welcomes your blog submissions. Whether an interview, a summary of current research, or a report on an event in the world of Qur'anic studies, the format for our weekly posts is flexible. Posts are ideally about 500 words, and can be written in the
- [“Fragmentation and Compilation” Workshop at the Institute for Ismaili Studies, London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/fragmentation-and-compilation-workshop-at-the-institute-for-ismaili-studies-london/) - By Holger Zellentin This past week, an exciting conversation took place at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London. The event was convened by one of the Institute’s researchers, Dr. Asma Hilali, who brought together a broad range of researchers in Qur’anic studies. The workshop was the second installment in a series titled “Fragmentation and
- [Robert Alter's 'The Art of Biblical Narrative' and Qur'anic Narrative](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/robert-alters-the-art-of-biblical-narrative-and-quranic-narrative/) - By Leyla Ozgur Alhassen Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative[1] is an introduction to the literary elements of Biblical narrative, and can be an extremely useful work for scholars of Qur’anic narrative. Below, I highlight certain aspects of Alter’s analysis of Biblical repetition and type-scenes, which can be especially useful for studies of Qur’anic
- [Join IQSA in Baltimore!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/join-iqsa-in-baltimore/) - 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, send us an email at contact@iqsaweb.org or visit our Facebook event page today! Don't forget, Friday's events are free and open to the public (while the rest of the weekend's activities require registration with SBL or
- [Seventh Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity & Islam: “The Qur’an and Arab Christianity”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/seventh-mingana-symposium-on-arab-christianity-islam-the-quran-and-arab-christianity/) - By David Bertaina The Alphonse Mingana Manuscript Collection at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom holds an important yet underappreciated repository of early Qur’an folios and papyri. In support of the Mingana collection and its legacy, a number of scholars gathered on 17-20 September, 2013, to discuss the importance of “The Qur'an and
- [Video Lecture: "How (Not) to Translate the Qur'an"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/video-lecture-how-not-to-translate-the-quran/) - 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 year—can be viewed online in its entirety here. Toorawa is associate professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. His areas of specialty are medieval Arabic literature and modern poetry.
- [Video Interview: Dr. Feras Hamza](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/video-interview-dr-feras-hamza/) - The Institute of Ismaili Studies, based in London, has published a video interview with Dr. Feras Hamza, one of the editors of An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries - Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine, regarding the book. Hamza is assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai. He completed his doctoral
- [NOW ONLINE - Program Book for Baltimore, Nov 22-24](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/now-online-program-book-for-baltimore-nov-22-24/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are now days away from the first Annual Meeting of the International Qur'anic Studies Association taking place in Baltimore, November 22-24. This meeting is very special and would not have been possible without the help, partnership and collegiality of numerous friends. We are confident that you will find the scheduled
- [New book: Understanding the Qurʾanic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-understanding-the-qurʾanic-miracle-stories-in-the-modern-age/) - The beginning of this month saw the release of the third book in Penn State University Press's series, Signifying (on) Scriptures, called Understanding the Qurʾanic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age by Dr. Isra Yazicioglu. The book explores the details and implications of the Qur'an's miracle stories. It is divided into three parts: "A Medieval Muslim Debate," "Reframing the Debate
- [Recently released - Le Coran: Nouvelles Approches](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recently-released-le-coran-nouvelles-approches/) - By Gabriel Reynolds On November 28th, French publisher CNRS Editions released Le Coran: Nouvelles Approches, the fruit of a colloquium of leading francophone scholars of the Qur’an that took place at l’Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (Paris, 2009). The work presents thirteen studies divided into three sections: L’histoire du texte (“history
- [Video lecture: The Influence of the Qur'an on Western Literature](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/video-lecture-the-influence-of-the-quran-on-western-literature/) - A lecture on "The Influence of the Qur'an on Western Literature," by Robert Irwin—given at the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at the University of London's Warburg Institute—can be viewed in its entirety here. Robert Irwin is a widely-published author of both fiction and non-fiction works on the Arab world.
- [IQSA Presents: Papers on Qur'anic Origins, an early Qur'anic palimpsest, and Qur'anic translation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-presents-papers-on-quranic-origins-an-early-quranic-palimpsest-and-quranic-translation/) - Today, IQSA is proud to announce the online publication of three papers by top scholars: "Implausibility and Probability in Studies of Qurʾanic Origins," by Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh (Central European University) "On an early Qurʾanic palimpsest and its stratigraphy: Cambridge Or. 1287," by Dr. Alain George (University of Edinburgh) "Reflections of a Qurʾan Translator," by Dr.
- [New Book: The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-the-quran-and-the-aramaic-gospel-traditions/) - A new book by Emran El-Badawi on The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions has been published this month. This book is the thirteenth of the Routledge Studies in the Qur'an series, edited by Andrew Rippin. Description* This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels
- [Highlight: Dr. Alain George on an early Qur'anic palimpsest](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/highlight-dr-alain-george-on-an-early-quranic-palimpsest/) - Last week, IQSA published three scholarly papers online and highlighted that of Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh. This week, we move to the paper by Dr. Alain George (University of Edinburgh), which has also been revised since it's initial posting.* The paper, "On an early Qurʾanic palimpsest and its stratigraphy: Cambridge Or. 1287,” begins: A century ago, Agnes
- [Highlight: Dr. Tarif Khalidi on translating the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/highlight-dr-tarif-khalidi-on-translating-the-quran/) - This week, we turn to the third of the three papers published on December 16th, 2013: Dr. Tarif Khalidi's "Reflections of a Qur'an Translator." Khalidi (American University of Beirut) provides a personal reflection on the challenges and nuances of translating Scripture, and the Qur'an in particular. He speaks of the distinct burdens that come with translating the Qur'an:
- [Workshop report: “New Research on Muhammad and the Qur’an" in Rome](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/workshop-report-new-research-on-muhammad-and-the-quran-in-rome/) - By Giuliano Lancioni The workshop “New Research on Muhammad and the Qur’an: Exegetical, historical and linguistic approaches,” (September 20-21, 2013), which was jointly organized by Sapienza University of Rome and Roma Tre University, aimed to address a number of issues in recent research on the Qur’anic text in its relation to the figure of the
- [2nd International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2nd-international-symposium-on-rethinking-the-quran/) - Last May, Dr. Andrew Rippin wrote up a conference report for IQSA on the 1st International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur'an, which can be read here. This year, the Research Institute for Philosophical Foundations of Disciplines (İlim Dallarının Düşünce Temellerini Araştırma Enstitüsü) will sponsor the 2nd International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur'an on May 10-11 in Ankara,
- [Calls for Papers posted!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/calls-for-papers-posted/) - The Calls for Papers for IQSA's 2014 Annual Meeting have now been posted! Visit this page for full details correspondent to the five program units accepting proposals: 1) Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus; 2) The Qur’an: Historical Context, Manuscripts, and Material Culture; 3) The Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition; 4) Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and
- [Call for Papers Highlight: Qurʾan Seminar](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-highlight-qurʾan-seminar/) - IQSA welcomes proposals for papers at our 2014 conference in San Diego under one of five program units. (See here for a complete listing). This week, we highlight the Qurʾan Seminar program unit, which invites interested students and scholars to discuss select passages of the Qurʾan in a round table format. For this program unit, participants
- [A Statement from the Directors Regarding IQSA 2013 and IQSA 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-statement-from-the-directors-regarding-iqsa-2013-and-iqsa-2014/) - We would like to recognize here the questions that have been raised about the presence of a police officer outside IQSA panels at the 2013 conference in Baltimore. We understand the perspective of those who were opposed to our procedures. In our procedures we erred on the side of caution in favor of security, and we
- [Call for Papers Highlight: Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-highlight-linguistic-literary-and-thematic-perspectives-on-the-quranic-corpus/) - IQSA welcomes proposals for papers at our 2014 conference in San Diego under one of five program units. (See here for a complete listing). This week's program unit highlight features "Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus." This program unit will provide a forum for the study of the Qur’an from a literary standpoint. Its chairs
- [Call for Papers Highlight—The Qur’an: Historical Context, Manuscripts, and Material Culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-highlight-the-quran-historical-context-manuscripts-and-material-culture/) - IQSA invites proposals for papers to be presented at its upcoming conference in San Diego, CA, November 21-24. Of the five program units accepting proposals, listed here, this week we highlight "The Qur’an: Historical Context, Manuscripts, and Material Culture." The aim of this unit, chaired by Keith Small and Luke Treadwell, is to provide a cross-disciplinary
- [Call for Papers Highlight: The Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-highlight-the-quran-and-the-biblical-tradition/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association welcomes paper proposals from all graduate students and scholars for its upcoming meeting in San Diego, CA, November 21-24. Submissions can be made under any of the five program units, listed here. Important guidelines regarding submission can be found below, as well as on the Annual Meeting page. This week,
- [Call for Papers Highlight—Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-highlight-quranic-studies-methodology-and-hermeneutics/) - This week, IQSA concludes its series of blog highlights on featured program units for the upcoming Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, with a focus on "Qur'anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics." For detailed information on all of the units accepting submissions, please visit our web page here. This unit, chaired by Karen Bauer and Farid
- [Book review: Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qurʾanic Exegesis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/book-review-aims-methods-and-contexts-of-qurʾanic-exegesis/) - By Gabriel Said Reynolds Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qurʾanic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th C.), ed. Karen Bauer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. A principal goal of the International Qurʾanic Studies Association (IQSA) is to encourage scholarship on the Qurʾanic text and its relationship to the historical, religious, and literary context of Late Antiquity. The interest of
- [New IQSA online discussion group](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-iqsa-online-discussion-group/) - Join the IQSA online academic discussion group, an excellent tool for staying connected with fellow Qur'anic Studies scholars. All those interested in subscribing should write to iqsa-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. We're looking forward to a lively correspondence!
- [Dissertation Summary: On Two Modern Approaches to Science in the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/dissertation-summary-on-two-modern-approaches-to-science-in-the-quran/) - By Majid Daneshgar* Majid Daneshgar recently completed his PhD in Religion under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Rippin and Dr. Zulkifli Mohd Yusof. Daneshgar’s dissertation examines two modern approaches to science in the Qur’an. Tantawi Jawhari (1862-1940) and Maurice Bucaille (1920-1998) were two scholars who established novel, scientific exegetical methods that have spread throughout the
- [The Fourth Annual International Qur'anic Conference (Kuala Lumpur)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-fourth-annual-international-quranic-conference-kuala-lumpur/) - Exactly five weeks from today, the Fourth Annual International Qur'anic Conference will commence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event runs from April 14th to 15th at the University of Malaya's Academy of Islamic Studies. It is organized by the same University's Centre of Qur’anic Research (CQR) along with the University's Department of Al-Qur’an and Al-Hadith, Academy
- [Rethinking Late Antiquity—A Review of Garth Fowden, Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rethinking-late-antiquity-a-review-of-garth-fowden-before-and-after-muḥammad-the-first-millennium-refocused/) - By Michael Pregill Beginning in the 1970s, the work of Peter Brown revolutionized the way scholars approach the “fall of Rome,” the decline of Roman and Sasanian power in the Middle East, and the rise of Islam in Late Antiquity. In his classic The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750 and other works, Brown argued
- [Video interview: Dr. Toby Mayer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/video-interview-dr-toby-mayer/) - Of potential interest to Qur'anic Studies scholars is a video interview published by the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS). The IIS's website features an interview with Dr. Toby Mayer, translator of Keys to the Arcana: Shahrastani’s Esoteric Commentary on the Qur’an. Some of the questions that Mayer answers in the interview include: What is the significance
- [King's College Workshop Report: Patterns of Argumentation in Late Antique and Early Islamic Literature](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/kings-college-workshop-report-patterns-of-argumentation-in-late-antique-and-early-islamic-literature/) - By Barbara Roggema On February 20-22, a workshop took place at King’s College London about patterns of argumentation in Late Antique and early Islamic literature. The workshop was organized by Yannis Papadogiannakis and Barbara Roggema within the framework of the ERC-project Defining Belief and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Role of Interreligious Debate and
- [Update: IQSA membership page](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/update-iqsa-membership-page/) - Check out our new page with breaking news about becoming an IQSA member, which will be possible soon! There you'll find details about all the perks of becoming a member, for a low annual rate.
- [New book: Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-shaping-a-quranic-worldview/) - By Vanessa De Gifis* It is commonplace in Islamic studies to acknowledge, in a general or clichéd way, that the Qur’an has an influence on Islamic thought and society. My new book, Shaping a Qurʾānic Worldview, was motivated by the desire to better understand the practical mechanisms by which Muslims bring the Qur’an to bear
- [Announcing IQSA's Inaugural Executive Board](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/announcing-iqsas-inaugural-executive-board/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is pleased to announce its inaugural Executive Board. We are honored to welcome a wonderful roster of Qur'anic Studies scholars to the Board, including: Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Acting President Reuven Firestone, Hebrew Union College, Inaugural Vice President Please see our updated People page for a full listing. © International Qur’anic
- [A review of A.J. Droge, The Qur'an: A New Annotated Translation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-review-of-a-j-droge-the-quran-a-new-annotated-translation/) - By Ayman Ibrahim One of the major goals of IQSA is to encourage research, discussion, and scholarship on the Qur’an and its literary features and historical formation. Arthur Droge’s The Qur’ān: A New Annotated Translation is a very positive contribution to the growing research on Islam’s scripture, particularly with regards to translating its meanings. Successfully
- [Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/arabic-inscriptions-at-shivta-in-the-early-islamic-period/) - By Bilha Moor* Moor, Bilha. “Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period.” JSAI 40 (2013), pp. 73-141. This study examines a missing puzzle piece in the history of Shivta (Sobata) and its monuments, as it sheds light on the transitional period between Byzantine and Islamic rule in southern Palestine. For
- [Mobile Apps for Qur’anic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/mobile-apps-for-quranic-studies/) - By Vanessa DeGifis The Qur’an has always been a multi-media corpus, but today’s mobile app technology gives us new dynamic ways to experience the Qur’an as word, image, and sound, and to share these experiences with others. With many schools in the U.S. making iPads available for instructional use, I have been able to use
- [ISAP Conference 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/isap-conference-2014/) - "Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents, Languages in Historical Context: The Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference" (Munich, October 7th-10th, 2014) The Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference—hosted by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (www.badw.de) and organized by the Academy's Committee of Semitic Philology, ISAP, and the Munich Institute of Near
- [Membership & AM Registration Open - عضوية الجمعية مفتوحة الآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership-am-registration-open-عضوية-الجمعية-مفتوحة-الآن/) - We at the International Qur’anic Studies Association are delighted to announce that membership in our society is now open! Furthermore, the membership is FREE for 2014. (1) العضوية مجانية - To join our academic community today (for free!) simply submit a Membership Form here: http://membership.iqsaweb.org/Join.aspx. (2) التسجيل بسعر مخفض إلى ٢٢/٥/٢٠١٤ - Time Sensitive: Annual Meeting Registration : Colleagues, if you intend to join us for
- [Rethinking Genre and the Qur’an: Question-and-Answer Literature](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rethinking-genre-and-the-quran-question-and-answer-literature/) - By David Bertaina The observation that many Qur’anic passages are dialogical has been apparent to its readers from medieval to modern commentators. Its utterances frequently consist of dialogues between God, its announcer and audience, as well as Biblical and non-Biblical characters. Scholars have devoted substantial attention to character dialogues and the study of genre. However,
- [CFP: International Conference on "Renewal in Qur'anic Studies," Kuala Lumpur, 18-19 November 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/cfp-international-conference-on-renewal-in-quranic-studies-kuala-lumpur-18-19-november-2014/) - نداء للمؤتمر الدولي التجديد في الدراسات القرآنية قسم القرآن و الحديث، أكاديمية الدراسات الإسلامية، جامعة مالايا ١٨-١٩ نوفمبر ٢٠١٤ م/٢٥-٢٦ محرم ١٤٣٦ ه The Department of Qur'an and Hadith at the University of Malaya invites proposal abstracts of original research for an upcoming international conference aiming to bring together scholars from around the world to
- [IQSA's New Blog Coordinator Invites Submissions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsas-new-blog-coordinator-invites-submissions/) - Greetings! My name is Vanessa De Gifis, and I pleased to introduce myself as the new blog coordinator for IQSA. I earned my Ph.D. in Islamic thought from the University of Chicago, and I am presently Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where I teach (among other things) a course on the
- [Recent Updates and Plans](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-updates-and-plans/) - Dear Friends of IQSA, On May 29 the inaugural board of the International Qur’anic Studies Association held their first spring meeting. At the meeting the executive director reported to council the achievements of IQSA thus far, and plans for the future. Furthermore, the quorum of council members reviewed and ratified the articles of incorporation as well
- [EQ Persian Translation Project  پروژة ترجمة ايکيو به زبان فارسي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/eq-persian-translation-project-پروژة-ترجمة-ايکيو-به-زبان-فارسي/) - By Mehrdad Abbasi * مهرداد عباسي The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān (EQ) is a major academic reference for Qur’anic studies in the English language, compiled under the editorship of Jane Dammen McAuliffe and published in five volumes (plus index) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2001-2006). Upon the completion of EQ, my fellows and I initiated its translation
- [New Book: The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-the-arabs-and-islam-in-late-antiquity/) - Aziz al-Azmeh's new book, The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity: A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources, is a critical study of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Its purpose is to consider the value and relevance
- [New Book: Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-never-wholly-other-a-muslima-theology-of-religious-pluralism/) - by Jerusha T. Lamptey* The observation that the Qur’an has a lot to say about various religious communities and religious diversity in general is not novel. Even a casual reader will quickly encounter references to the Children of Israel, the Jews, and the People of the Scripture; discussions of a multitude of prophets, revelations and
- [New Book on the Prophet Muhammad's Adopted Son Zayd](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-on-the-prophet-muhammads-adopted-son-zayd/) - by David S. Powers* Muhammad may not have had any natural sons who reached the age of maturity, but Islamic sources report that he did adopt a young man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. The adoption had two important consequences: Zayd’s name changed to Zayd b. Muhammad and mutual rights of inheritance
- [مَن كتب ٱلقرءان؟](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/مَن-كتب-ٱلقرءان؟/) - *لسمير حسن تكثر مراكز الدرس والبحث في كتاب يحمل عنان "القرءان." وفي الكتاب اسم لمؤلفه "كتاب الله." وتكثر الأموال المدفوعة لباحثين كثر. فيما يظنوه تاريخا لذلك الكتاب وتطورا لخط الكلمة فيه وعلى الرغم من كثرة الأموال والباحثين وبحوثهم بقي خط الكتاب إلى اليوم من دون درس وعلم فيه. ولم يكن لمفهوم التطور في جميع البحوث
- [On the Qur'an and Modern Standard Arabic](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/on-the-quran-and-modern-standard-arabic/) - by Gabriel Said Reynolds* Qurʾan 20:39 recalls how God instructed Moses’ mother to place her infant son in a tābūt and set him upon a river, that he might escape Pharaoh. In Modern Standard Arabic, tābūt can mean “box, case, chest, coffer” or “casket, coffin, sarcophagus,” and many translators render tābūt in the Qur’an in
- [Archaeologists Discover Oldest Known Arabic Inscription in South Arabia*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/archaeologists-discover-oldest-known-arabic-inscription-in-south-arabia/) - Frédéric Imbert, professor at Aix-Marseille Université and researcher with IREMAM, and a French-Saudi team of archaeologists have recently discovered the oldest known example of Arabic inscription in South Arabia, about 100 kilometers north of Najran. The text is dated to 469-470 CE, and is written in an intermediate Nabatean-Arabic script, the earliest phase in the development of Arabic writing. Previously this
- [CFP: International Conference on "Religions and Political Values"*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/cfp-international-conference-on-religions-and-political-values/) - The Adyan Foundation, in partnership with the Lebanese American University (LAU), invites papers for a two-day conference on “Religions and Political Values,” to be held at LAU’s Byblos campus, 26-28 November 2014. Responding to widespread interest in a values-based paradigm for engaging religions in the public domain, the goal of the conference is to create a
- [New Book: Les emprunts à l’hébreu et au judéo-araméen dans le Coran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-les-emprunts-a-lhebreu-et-au-judeo-arameen-dans-le-coran/) - by Catherine Pennacchio* My new book, Les emprunts à l’hébreu et au judéo-araméen dans le Coran, builds on Arthur Jeffery’s work, The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an (Baroda, 1938), the last major study of Qur’anic loanwords. This lexicon identifies 325 loanwords and gathers all that had been written by Muslim and Western scholars about them. My
- [International Qur'an Conference: "Recent Trends in Qur'anic Studies"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/international-quran-conference-recent-trends-in-quranic-studies/) - by Mun'im Sirry IQSA and State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, are co-hosting an international conference on "Recent Trends in Qur'anic Studies," to be held in Yogyakarta on 4-7 August 2015. This international Qur’an conference will be a forum where the Islamic tradition and rigorous academic study of the Qur’an will meet, and various approaches
- [Mentorship Lunch at IQSA San Diego: A Special Opportunity to Connect with Leading Scholars](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/mentorship-lunch-at-iqsa-san-diego-a-special-opportunity-to-connect-with-leading-scholars/) - Current grad students and new PhDs! IQSA is delighted to offer you a special opportunity to connect with established scholars of the Qur’an and learn practical tips for finding your place in the field. This year’s IQSA Annual Meeting, which brings together students and scholars from around the world, includes a one-hour Mentorship Lunch scheduled for
- [IQSA Annual Meeting: Full Program Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-full-program-available/) - The full program for the IQSA Annual Meeting 2014 in San Diego is now available. You can view it here, and access it anytime under the “Meetings” menu. Please note that the IQSA Annual Meeting starts on FRIDAY 21 November, one day before the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. Highlights in the IQSA program include: • 11/21/2014,
- [Understanding dīn and islām in Q 5:3](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/understanding-din-and-islam-in-q-53/) - by Rachid Benzine* It seems that the section of Q 5:3 that reads "al-yawm akmaltu la-kum dīnakum…al-islām dīnan" is an interpolation inserted between two parts of the verse that should be read continuously, as they pertain to dietary restrictions and to exemptions in life-threatening situations or in case of force majeure (cf. Q 2:175 and
- [IQSA San Diego Program, 21-24 November 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-san-diego-program-21-24-november-2014/) - The Qur’an: Historical Context, Manuscripts, and Material Culture (IQSA) 11/21/2014 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Room 23 B (Upper level) – San Diego Convention Center (CC) Theme: Panel 2: The Qur’an: Historical Context and Material Culture Wadad Kadi, Oriental Institute, Chicago ‘Abd al-Hamid al-Katib’s Use of the Qur’an in His Legal, Theological, and Historical Letters (30 min)
- [New Book: Qur'an in Conversation*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-quran-in-conversation/) - The Qur’an is God’s verbatim speech for most traditional Muslims. Michael Birkel's new book, Qur’an in Conversation (Baylor University Press, 2014), reflects how this sacred text comes into dialogue with the contemporary world through the voices of its interpreters. Birkel, who is Professor of Religion at Earlham College, engages North American Muslim religious leaders and academics in conversations
- [Two Electronic Collections of Articles on the Qur’an and Qur’an Manuscripts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/two-electronic-collections-of-articles-on-the-quran-and-quran-manuscripts/) - by Efim Rezvan* A series of significant articles in Qur’anic studies from Russia, originally published between 1992 and 2008, have been collected into two volumes now conveniently available in English online. E. A. Rezvan. The Qur’an and Its World. Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), 2012. Internet
- [All IQSA Members Urged to Attend Business Meeting in San Diego, Sunday 23 November](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/all-iqsa-members-urged-to-attend-business-meeting-in-san-diego-sunday-23-november/) - The IQSA Business Meeting will take place at our Annual Meeting in San Diego on Sunday 23 November from 11:30 AM until 12:00 noon (after a panel on the Qur'an and the Biblical Tradition). All IQSA members (and only IQSA members) are strongly encouraged to attend the Business Meeting, when IQSA's acting President, Andrew Rippin, will present to a
- [Space Available for the Mentorship Lunch - Reserve Yours Today!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/space-available-for-the-mentorship-lunch-reserve-yours-today/) - Current grad students and new PhDs! There is still space available for the IQSA Mentorship Lunch in San Diego! Scheduled for Saturday 22 November, during the upcoming IQSA Annual Meeting, the Mentorship Lunch is a special opportunity to connect with leading scholars in Qur'anic studies and learn practical tips for finding your place in the field. Fred Donner,
- [Nomination of President-Elect Now Open to IQSA Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/nomination-of-president-elect-now-open-to-iqsa-members/) - by Holger Zellentin, Chair of the IQSA Nominations Committee All members of IQSA are encouraged to propose names for the position of the next IQSA President-Elect! The Nominations Committee are now accepting nominations for the position. The next President-Elect will be elected in 2015 and, pending confirmation at next year’s Annual Meeting, will then serve
- [Call for Papers: Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-journal-of-the-international-quranic-studies-association/) - IQSA is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of the International Qurʾanic Studies Association (JIQSA). In support of the Association’s mission of fostering scholarship on the Qurʾan, JIQSA will commence publication twice annually beginning in the first quarter of 2016. The Journal is being launched at a time of particular vitality and growth in Qurʾanic
- [Qur'an Manuscript from North Africa](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quran-manuscript-from-north-africa/) - by Jean Lefe Ag Nouh and Curt Meyer* Access to specific Qur’an manuscripts is important for the study of the Qur’an’s manuscript history and material culture. While physical access to manuscripts is often limited, access to digital images helps researchers gain ready familiarity with Qur’an manuscripts, make expeditious research travel plans, and sustain their research
- [NOW ONLINE – Program Book for San Diego, Nov 21-24](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/now-online-program-book-for-san-diego-nov-21-24/) - Dear Friends, We are now days away from the second Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in San Diego, November 21-24. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars an friends. For a complete showcase of our events, participants and sponsors we are proud to present the official AM 2014 PROGRAM BOOK (PDF).
- [Qur'anic Clues to the Identity of Muhammad's Community in Medina](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-clues-to-the-identity-of-muhammads-community-in-medina/) - by Reza Aslan* It may have been in Mecca where the Prophet Muhammad received the first revelations of the Qur’an and began his prophetic mission, but it was in Medina where his community of followers was forged. It is tempting to call the members of Muhammad’s community “Muslims,” but there is no reason to believe
- [New Book: Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-structure-and-quranic-interpretation/) - by Raymond Farrin* Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text (Ashland, OR: White Cloud, 2014) is a groundbreaking literary approach to the Qur'an that draws on classical Arab sources and contemporary literary theory. Farrin demonstrates how the Qur’an, often regarded as unsystematic, in fact features a comprehensive design, one
- [IQSA, SBL and AAR in the News](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-sbl-and-aar-in-the-news/) - The success of IQSA's annual meetings in San Diego, CA (2014) and Baltimore, MD (2013) have contributed positively to the tremendous work done every year by both the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) as well as the American Academy of Religion (AAR). For more information, please see the excerpts below from two articles in Publishers Weekly.
- [A Letter of Thanks to IQSA Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-letter-of-thanks-to-iqsa-members/) - Dear IQSA members and friends, I hope this message reaches you well, and that you found our time together in San Diego, both enlightening as well as enjoyable. Like many of you, I had the pleasure of meeting old friends and making new ones. I speak for myself, council and all IQSA officers when I
- [The Qur'an - A Humanistic or Political Discourse? |  القرآن - من أجل الإنسان أم من أجل السلطان؟](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quran-a-humanistic-or-political-discourse-القرآن-من-أجل-الإنسان-أم-من-أ/) - By Dr. Ali Mabrouk | للدكتور علي مبروك * The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to Ali Mabrouk, Nusūs ḥawl al-qur'ān: fī al-sa'y warā' al-qur'ān al-ḥayy, (Texts about the Qur'an: In Search of the Living Qur'an; 2014). In it, Dr. Mabrouk discusses the clash between mobilizing the Qur'an for political purposes (min ajl al-sulṭān), and a
- [New Book: Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-islamic-cultures-islamic-contexts/) - Readers interested in the social and intellectual history of Islamic civilization will find an exciting array of studies in Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone (Brill, 2014). This volume brings together articles on various aspects of Islamic societies and the intellectual traditions and social contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written by leading
- [IQSA 2014 Keynote and Response Papers Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2014-keynote-and-response-papers-now-available/) - Following the success of the IQSA Annual Meeting in San Diego, there has been high demand for access to the keynote paper of Professor Angelika Neuwirth and the response paper of Professor Andrew Rippin. We are very pleased to make both of these papers now available on our website, **Here**. Together, these papers reflect the
- [البحث عن سياق القرآن التاريخي - نبذة عن الدراسات القرآنية الحديثة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/البحث-عن-سياق-القرآن-التاريخي-نبذة-عن/) - *By Emran El-Badawi | الدكتور عمران البدوي The following is an excerpt of a review article providing an overview of the modern academic discipline of Qur'anic Studies. Its content discusses the 'traditionalist' and 'revisionist' schools, and academic approaches that fall somewhere in the middle. أشارككم المحاضرة الوجيزة هذه من أجل إعطاء نظرة عامة عن الدراسات القرآنية الحديثة بشأن
- [A Literary Portrait of Qur'anic Origins](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-literary-portrait-of-quranic-origins/) - by Aaron W. Hughes* I would like to consider Reza Aslan’s recent IQSA blog post in light of his best-selling book Zealot, because his blog post appears like his book to be essentially a creative literary piece. In a recent review of Zealot published in Critical Research in Religion (2.2 [2014]: 195-221), Richard Horsely, a leading
- [Debating Monotheistic Pluralism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/debating-monotheistic-pluralism/) - by Reza Aslan* Before I address Professor Hughes’ criticism of my earlier blog post on monotheistic pluralism, I suppose I should begin as he does by addressing something that has absolutely nothing to do with my blog post: that is, my biography of the historical Jesus. I am not sure if it comes as surprise
- [Growing Pains of Qur’anic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/growing-pains-of-quranic-studies/) - by Devin Stewart* On the one hand, the explosion of interest in the Qur’an over the past several decades is a blessing, as it has produced a sharp rise in the rate at which scholarship in Qur’anic studies is being produced, as well as in the number of different approaches. Entire fields of inquiry that
- [IQSA Discussion Group Key to Networking and Crowdsourcing in Qur'anic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-discussion-group-key-to-networking-and-crowdsourcing-in-quranic-studies/) - If you are interested in Qur’anic studies and want to connect with others who share your interests, we warmly invite you to join the IQSA Discussion Group at Yahoo Groups: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/iqsa/info This moderated listserv is the ideal venue to actively engage in current academic conversations about the text of the Qur’an and to solicit advice,
- [Annual Meeting 2015 Call for Papers Now Open!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2015-call-for-papers-now-open/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association announces the call for papers for the 2015 Annual Meeting to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. The Annual Meeting dates are November 20-23, 2015. Each of IQSA’s six program units provides a detailed call for papers; all are available on the complete AM 2015 CFP page HERE. From the CFP page, you can click
- [New Program Unit for the 2015 Annual Meeting: The Qur'an and Late Antiquity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-program-unit-for-the-2015-annual-meeting-the-quran-and-late-antiquity/) - by Greg Fisher and Michael Pregill Over the past fifteen years, there has been a tremendous upsurge of interest in the historiography of late antique Arabia. This has happened as a result both of targeted studies as well as developments in late antique historiography more broadly. New studies authored or edited by Glen Bowersock, Averil
- [CFP Highlight: Qur'an Manuscripts and Material Culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/cfp-highlight-quran-manuscripts-and-material-culture/) - For the IQSA 2015 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, the Qur’an: Manuscripts and Material Culture program unit will host two panels. For the first panel, we invite papers that deal with all eras and regions of the Qur’an’s manuscript tradition, as well as the variety of palaeographic, art historical, codicological, and historical issues one encounters in
- [Rhyming Translations of Qurʾanic Sūrahs](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/rhyming-translations-of-qurʾanic-surahs/) - by Devin Stewart* A curious fact has recently come to my attention, and I suppose it may be news to most readers of this blog. I was surprised to learn that the Austrian Orientalist Baron Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), best known for his voluminous and detailed history of the Ottoman Empire, translated forty surahs of
- [IQSA Membership Open! Join Today!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-membership-open-join-today/) - IQSA Membership for 2015 is now open! We warmly invite you to join IQSA by filling out a membership form HERE. Benefits of membership include access to Review of Qur'anic Research, Qur'an Seminar, member directory, and job board; a discounted registration/affiliate rate for the Annual Meeting in November; and special offers from publishers. And the IQSA membership fee for 2015 is only
- [Last Call: CFP Deadline MAR 5 & 2015 Membership Open](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/last-call-cfp-deadline-mar-5-2015-membership-open/) - Dear friends and colleagues, I trust this message finds you well. This is a quick reminder that the Call for Papers deadline for November Annual Meeting in Atlanta is this Thursday, March 5. I want to encourage you all to submit a title/abstract, and to do so right away, HERE: https://iqsaweb.org/meetings/am2015/. Finally, if you have not done so already, please
- [CFP Deadline Extension (Fri, Mar 6) & Clarification](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/cfp-deadline-extension-fri-mar-6-clarification/) - It has come to our attention that the online paper proposal system IQSA uses through SBL closed on March 4, i.e. one day earlier than stated deadline of March 5 in our original Call for Papers. We apologize for this discrepancy and any inconvenience this has caused. We are, furthermore, extending the deadline for submissions until tomorrow, Friday, March 6,
- [Review of Qur'anic Research Now Online](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-now-online/) - In keeping with its commitment to the advancement and dissemination of scholarship on the Qur’an, IQSA is pleased to launch the Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR), a new online resource to feature reviews of recent published scholarship in Qur’anic studies and allied fields. Please click HERE to access RQR. Access to RQR documents is available to IQSA members only. If you are not yet
- [Job Opportunities at IQSA for Graduate Students](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/job-opportunities-at-iqsa-for-graduate-students/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association seeks two graduate student assistants for editorial and online help. Assistants will work approximately ten hours per week. General Qualifications Be a registered graduate student in Qur’anic Studies or related field; Ph.D. candidates preferred Commit to the position for a minimum of one calendar year (from time of start) Be
- [Traditional and Modern Qur’anic Hermeneutics in Comparative Perspective](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/traditional-and-modern-quranic-hermeneutics-in-comparative-perspective/) - by Adis Duderija* Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of groundbreaking scholarship in Qur’anic hermeneutics, including the works of Hasan Hanafi, Nasir Abu Zayd, Abdolkarim Soroush, Amina Wadud, and Khaled Abou El Fadl, to name but a few. One of the benefits of this growth in scholarship is that it highlights the complexities of the
- [On Semitic Rhetorical Analysis of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/on-semitic-rhetorical-analysis-of-the-quran/) - In the latest installment of IQSA's Review of Qur'anic Research 1, no. 2, Prof. Gabriel Said Reynolds offers a lucid assessment of Michel Cuypers' provocative 2012 work, La composition du Coran, which analyzes rhetorical structures in the Qur'an to argue for its textual coherence. Full access to the Review of Qur'anic Research (RQR) is available in the members-only area of
- [Registration for IQSA Annual Meeting NOW OPEN](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-for-iqsa-annual-meeting-now-open-2/)
- [Registration for IQSA Annual Meeting NOW OPEN](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-for-iqsa-annual-meeting-now-open/) - Registration for the IQSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, 20-23 November, is now open! You can access the registration system through the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) webpage HERE. Take advantage of the "super saver" discount by registering now through 21 May. Please visit the SBL site for more information on registration rates, housing, meeting locations, etc. We look
- [The Arabian Context of the Qur’an: Dissertation Highlight](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-arabian-context-of-the-quran-dissertation-highlight/) - by Süleyman Dost* He claimed to be an Arab prophet and he was. We shall see him consciously borrowing – he is quite frank about it. But to begin with, the materials which he uses, though they may remind us ever and again of Jewish and Christian phrases and ideas, are in reality Arab materials.
- [Join IQSA and Save on Meeting Registration Rates! عضوية الجمعية مفتوحة الآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/join-iqsa-and-save-on-meeting-registration-rates-عضوية-الجمعية-مفتوحة-الآن/) - The IQSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, 20-23 November, will be held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. You could save up to $70 by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member! Registration is now open on the SBL website here. Take advantage of an additional “super saver” discount by registering now through 21 May. We hope
- [Call for Nominations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-nominations/) - The IQSA Nominations Committee welcomes nominations for several positions. The IQSA Board of Directors needs to appoint the following positions: President Elect for 2016 a new member of the IQSA Board of Directors a new member of the Nominations Committee Please see the IQSA bylaws for the description of the roles. The Nominations Committee would like to ask
- [IQSA 2015 - Updates & Announcements](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2015-updates-announcements/) - Dear Friends, I trust this message finds you well, and for those of us nearing the end of our academic year I wish you all the best of luck. Since our meeting in San Diego, the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA) has successfully completed a number of important activities, and we continue to develop the
- [New Book: When Christians First Met Muslims*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-when-christians-first-met-muslims/) - The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac Christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of Islam, describing
- [Qur'an Seminar Website Now Open to Members](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quran-seminar-website-now-open-to-members/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is excited to share with its members its new Qurʾan Seminar website! The Qurʾan Seminar is a research project of IQSA dedicated to collaborative study of selected Qurʾanic passages on themes of central importance to the text itself, which collectively represent a diversity of literary genres, and which are of interest to the academic field of Qurʾanic Studies. The website
- [Scriptural Hermeneutics in Sunni Muslim Juristic Thought](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/scriptural-hermeneutics-in-sunni-muslim-juristic-thought/) - In the latest installment of IQSA's Review of Qur'anic Research 1, no. 3, Mohamad Ballan (University of Chicago) reviews Jonathan A. C. Brown's ambitious new book, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choice of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (London: Oneworld, 2014), which explores the relationship between the Qurʾan and Ḥadīth and the various subjective ways that Sunni ʿulamāʾ in medieval and modern
- ["Super Saver" Annual Meeting Registration Rate Ends Soon!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/super-saver-annual-meeting-registration-rate-ends-soon/) - There are just a few days left to take advantage of the "super saver" discount registration rate for the IQSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta! The Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings, 20-23 November, is a valuable opportunity to connect with scholars from around the world and explore the latest in Qur'anic research. The "super saver" rate is available now through Thursday 21 May.
- [Who were Abu Lahab and His Wife? A View from the Hebrew Bible](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/who-were-abu-lahab-and-his-wife-a-view-from-the-hebrew-bible/) - by Ercan Celik* In The Qur’an and Its Biblical Subtext, G. S. Reynolds observes that …scholars of the Qur’an accept the basic premise of the medieval Islamic sources that the Qur’an is to be explained in light of the life of the Prophet Muhammad… However, he proposes that critical Qur’anic scholarship not depend on prophetic
- [Auto-Referentiality of the Qur'anic Text](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/auto-referentiality-of-the-quranic-text/) - In the latest installment of IQSA's Review of Qur'anic Research 1, no. 4, Dr. Michel Cuypers reviews Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau's La Coran par lui-même: Vocabulaire et argumentation du discours coranique autoréférentiel (Leiden: Brill, 2014). The book is the latest and fullest study of "what the Qur'an says about itself." Situated within the current of synchronic studies of the Qur'anic text, Boisliveau's approach combines
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur'an 2:178-179](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-2178-179/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur'an: Q. 2:178-179. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur'anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur'an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [Qur’anic Counter-Discourse](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-counter-discourse/) - by Mehdi Azaiez* My new book, Le contre-discours coranique (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2015), focuses on a distinctive literary form in the Qur’an: “counter-discourse”—that is, the discourse of the Qur’an’s opponents as represented in the qur’anic text itself. Qur’anic counter-discourse appears in the form of direct reported speech, easily identifiable by the formula “they say.” The first
- [Reviving the Art of Kufic Calligraphy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reviving-the-art-of-kufic-calligraphy/) - Iranian calligraphy master Seyed Mohammad Vahid Mousavi Jazayeri is on a mission to revive the magnificent but now largely unpracticed art of Kufic Arabic calligraphy, and has chosen as his subject the text of the Qur’an, the original inspiration for the development of Kufic calligraphy in Islamic manuscript traditions and decorative arts. In collaboration with master illuminator Jamshid
- [Ninth SOAS Conference on the Qur'an: Call for Papers*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/ninth-soas-conference-on-the-quran-call-for-papers/) - Proposals are invited for the Ninth SOAS Conference on the Qur’an: "The Qur’an: Text, Society And Culture," to be held on 11-13 February 2016. The conference series, hosted by SOAS, University of London, seeks to address a basic question: How is the Qur’anic text read and interpreted? The goal is to encompass a global vision of current research trends, and
- [New Book: Translating the Qur'an in an Age of Nationalism*](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-translating-the-quran-in-an-age-of-nationalism/) - Over the course of the past two centuries, the central text of Islam has undergone twin revolutions. Around the globe, Muslim communities have embraced the printing and translating of the Qur'an, transforming the scribal text into a modern book that can be read in virtually any language. What began with the sparse and often contentious
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 2:255-256](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-2255-256/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 2:255-256. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [The Qur'an's Legal Culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-qurans-legal-culture/) - In the latest installment of IQSA’s Review of Qur’anic Research 1, no. 5, Lev Weitz reviews Holger Zellentin, The Qurʾān's Legal Culture (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013). In this book, Zellentin considers the apparent affinities between the Qur'an and the Didascalia Apostolorum, a late antique Syriac church order that took shape between the third and seventh centuries CE. The Didascalia
- [Ritual Studies and the Qur’an: Preliminary Thoughts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/ritual-studies-and-the-quran-preliminary-thoughts/) - by Andrew C. Smith* The usage of ritual as a means of communication, worship, and social construction is a ubiquitous element in human societies. In recognition of this fact, the field of ritual studies has expanded in scope and relevance in the last half century. Yet ritual as an important element within the Qur’an is largely
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 3:1-7 ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-31-7/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 3 :1-7. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [Early Dating of Birmingham Qur'an Fragments Sparks Lively Discussion](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/early-dating-of-birmingham-quran-fragments-sparks-lively-discussion/) - Qur'an fragments recently discovered in the library of the University of Birmingham have fueled an exciting discussion among scholars and the public about the textual history of the scripture of Islam. The parchment, which contains portions of Surahs 18 and 20, has been carbon-dated to ca. 568-645 C.E., corresponding roughly to the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (ca. 570-632 C.E.), making
- [IQSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta: Full Schedule Available Now!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-in-atlanta-full-schedule-available-now/) - The full schedule for the IQSA Annual Meeting 2015 in Atlanta is now available! To view the schedule, please visit the Annual Meeting 2015 page HERE. The IQSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta is scheduled to take place 20-23 November 2015, in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. Registration is open at the SBL page HERE. You can
- [Interpreting the Qur'an in Context](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/interpreting-the-quran-in-context/) - In the latest installment of IQSA’s Review of Qur’anic Research 1, no. 6, Andrew C. Smith reviews Abdullah Saeed's Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century: A Contextualist Approach (Routledge, 2014). Smith's review addresses important and persistent questions raised in the book about the location and stability of textual meaning, and about the challenge of interpreting a traditional text in ever-changing
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 3:33-63](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-333-63/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 3:33-63. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [You're Invited! Graduate Student Reception at IQSA Annual Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/youre-invited-graduate-student-reception-at-iqsa-annual-meeting/) - Attention current students and recent graduates! IQSA is delighted to host a special reception for students at our Annual Meeting in Atlanta: Saturday 21 November 6:30-8:00 p.m. Room: Crystal A-F (Level 1) – Hilton This will be a valuable opportunity for emerging scholars to mingle with established experts in Qur'anic studies in a more relaxed setting--with light refreshments and finger food! IQSA
- [New Book: Qur’ans: Books of Divine Encounter](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-book-qurans-books-of-divine-encounter/) - Keith E. Small's Qur’ans: Books of Divine Encounter (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2015) is a unique visual history of the Qur’an told through pictures of manuscripts in the Bodleian’s collection, supplemented by Qur’ans in the Ashmolean Museum’s collection, and an image of a page of the Sanaa palimpsest held in the David Collection in Copenhagen.
- [Reason and Scripture: Questions of Exegetical Authority](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reason-and-scripture-questions-of-exegetical-authority/) - In the latest installment of Review of Qur'anic Research 1, no. 7, Rodrigo Adem reviews Tariq Jaffer's new book, Rāzī: Master of Qurʾānic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning (Oxford University Press, 2015). Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1209 C.E.) had a pervasive influence on Sunnī and Shīʿī theological discourses from the thirteenth century to the present day. Jaffer's book explores how al-Razi’s
- [A Special Welcome for Students at Annual Meeting in Atlanta](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-special-welcome-for-students-at-annual-meeting-in-atlanta/) - NOTE: TIME & DATE CHANGED As we gear up for our Annual Meeting in Atlanta next month, IQSA is especially excited to welcome students and emerging scholars to our growing community. We warmly encourage all students who are planning to attend the Annual Meeting to RSVP for our Student Reception: Sunday 22 November 12:00-1:00 p.m. Room: L504-L505 (Lobby Level) – Marriott There
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 4:1-28](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-41-28/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 4:1-28. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on
- [Plan your Trip to Atlanta! IQSA Annual Meeting Program Highlights](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/plan-your-trip-to-atlanta-iqsa-annual-meeting-program-highlights/) - The IQSA Annual Meeting in Atlanta is just a few weeks away! As you plan your trip, please note the following special events on the program, which starts Friday 20 November: Presidential Address - Free and Open to the Public! Reuven Firestone, Hebrew Union College: The Problematic of Prophecy Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame, Respondent Friday 20
- [Facsimile Editions of Early Qur’an Manuscripts: A Survey](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/facsimile-editions-of-early-quran-manuscripts-a-survey/) - by Ahmed Shaker* There are numerous Qur’an manuscripts, complete and partial, dating from the first century A.H. onward. Although there is no official count of Qur’an manuscripts in existence today, Muhammad Mustafa Al-A‘zami (2003) estimates the number at about 250,000. They may be found in mosques, museums, libraries, and institutions all over the world. In
- [Translating the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/translating-the-quran/) - In the latest installment of Review of Qur’anic Research 1, no. 8, Johanna Pink reviews M. Brett Wilson's new book, Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2014). At the dawn of the twentieth century, many Muslims considered Qur'an translations to be impermissible and unviable. Nevertheless, printed
- [New Forum: Conflict and Convergence in Late Antiquity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-forum-conflict-and-convergence-in-late-antiquity/) - Scholars now widely recognize the numerous continuities between the religion, culture, politics, and society of Late Antiquity and that of early Islam, and are devising fresh ways to better understand the Qur’an through interdisciplinary studies of the late antique cultural context in which the Qur’an was revealed and the Muslim umma emerged. Now Mizan, a digital initiative dedicated to encouraging informed public
- [REMINDERS + NOW ONLINE – Program Book for Atlanta, Nov 20-23](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reminders-now-online-program-book-for-atlanta-nov-20-23/) - Dear Friends, We are now days away from the third Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in Atlanta, November 20-23. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars an friends. For a complete showcase of our events, participants and sponsors we are proud to present the official AM 2015 PROGRAM BOOK (PDF). Viewers
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 5:32](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-532/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 5:32. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [2015 Annual Meeting a Success](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2015-annual-meeting-a-success/) - The IQSA Annual Meeting held last week in Atlanta, Georgia, was a great success, thanks to cutting-edge research presentations and record-breaking attendance. Held in conjunction with the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)—the largest gathering of religious studies scholars in the world, our meeting brought
- [Variant Readings of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/variant-readings-of-the-quran/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research 1, no. 9, Hamza M. Zafer reviews Shady Hekmat Nasser, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh (Brill, 2013). This book lays out the processes whereby certain readings of the Qurʾan were deemed canonical while others
- [Jesus and Islam (Jésus et l'islam) - NEW Documentary](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jesus-and-islam-jesus-et-lislam-new-documentary/) - By Emran El-Badawi Six hours and thirty minutes is the duration of the new seven part documentary series on Jesus and Islam. The film Jésus et l'islam / Jesus und der Islam is presented in three versions (French, German and English) and features twenty six academic specialists from around the world--including several current and former IQSA members. The specialists
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 5:109-120](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-5109-120/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 5: 109-120. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis
- [Happy New Year from IQSA!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/happy-new-year-from-iqsa/) - It's been a banner year for IQSA. In 2015 we launched the Review of Qur'anic Research (RQR) and the Qur'an Seminar online forum and database, enjoyed excellent turnouts at our International Meeting in Yogyakarta and Annual Meeting in Atlanta, and have seen remarkable growth in visitor traffic on our blog. As the year winds to a close we reflect on our association's achievements with gratitude to our members,
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Qur’an 6:74-83](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-quran-674-83/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 6: 74-83. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical
- [CFP: Qur'an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/cfp-quran-and-islamic-tradition-in-comparative-perspective/) - The Qur'an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature welcomes proposals for both individual papers and pre-arranged panels at the international meeting in Seoul, 3-7 July 2016. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the Qur'an and Islamic tradition in the wider context of the history of
- [IQSA 2015 Keynote Address Now Available!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2015-keynote-address-now-available/) - Following the success of the IQSA 2015 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, we are pleased to make available on our website the Meeting's keynote paper by Professor Reuven Firestone, entitled "The Problematic of Prophecy." Based on qur'anic discourse in relation to preceding and subsequent scriptures and tradition, Professor Firestone offers a theory of religious emergence and the revolutionary challenge
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2016](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2016/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its 2016 Annual Meeting, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, November 18-22, 2016. The Annual Meeting includes panels for each of IQSA's five program units: Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus Qur’an Seminar Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics The Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition The
- [Twenty Years of Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/twenty-years-of-reading-the-quran-as-a-literary-text/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research 2, no. 1, Süleyman Dost reviews Angelika Neuwirth, Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text (Oxford University Press/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014), the first thorough collection of Angelika Neuwirth’s scholarship in English. Neuwirth, a leading scholar of Qur'anic studies at the Freie Universität
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Q Anfāl 8: 1-19](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-q-anfal-8-1-19/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q 8:1-19. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2016 Deadline Tonight](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2016-deadline-tonight/) - Reminder that the deadline for submitting your paper proposals for the IQSA Annual Meeting is tonight March 1st by 11:59 EST. Submit your proposal now! The Annual Meeting will be held in San Antonio, Texas, November 18-22, 2016. Please find detailed calls for papers for each program unit HERE.
- [IQSA 2015 Keynote Response Available Now](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2015-keynote-response-available-now/) - Following the success of the IQSA 2015 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, we were pleased to make available the Meeting's presidential keynote paper by Professor Reuven Firestone, entitled "The Problematic of Prophecy." Now available on our website is the response of Professor Ebrahim Moosa, who poses further questions about religious emergence: How does religion emerge from an environment or a
- [Sunni Tafsīr Commentaries on the Qurʾanic Term Khalīfah](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/sunni-tafsir-commentaries-on-the-qurʾanic-term-khalifah/) - by Han Hsien LIEW* The Arabic term khalīfah, a noun in the singular, appears twice in the Qur’an, once in reference to the original man Adam: And when your Lord said to the angels, ‘Verily I am making on earth a khalīfah’ … (Q 2:30) and once in reference to the prophet-king David: O David,
- [The Jews of Medina and the Challenge of Early Islamic Historiography](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-jews-of-medina-and-the-challenge-of-early-islamic-historiography/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research 2, no. 2, Michael Pregill reviews Haggai Mazuz's The Religious and Spiritual Lives of the Jews of Medina (Leiden: Brill, 2014). This work not only seeks to establish the historicity of much of the data the traditional sources offer us on the culture, customs, and traditions of the
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Q Tawbah 9:29-32](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-q-tawbah-929-32/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q 9:29-32. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis as
- [The Aesthetic Experience of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-aesthetic-experience-of-the-quran/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research 2, no. 3, Lauren E. Osborne reviews Navid Kermani's God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran (Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2015). In this book, Kermani argues that the aesthetic experience of the Qurʾan has always been linked to understanding the text as a whole since
- [Surah 111: the Fiber [Rope]](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/surah-111-the-fiber-rope/) - by Rachid Benzine* Interpretative paradigms of the Qur'an can mainly be sorted into two main families, which we would name “Islamisation” and “Biblisation”, both within Muslim and non-Muslim scholarly traditions. The “Islamisation” paradigm consists in accessing the Qur'an only or mainly through late 8th and 9th literature (sîra, Sunna, and asbâb al-nuzûl) whose actual factuality
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Q Tawbah 9:111-119](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-q-tawbah-9111-119/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 9: 111-119. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis
- [Divine Encounter with the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/divine-encounter-with-the-quran/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research 2, no. 4, Yasin Dutton reviews Keith E. Small's Qurʾāns: Books of Divine Encounter (Oxford: Bodleian Library, Oxford University Press, 2015). In this book, Keith Small presents the Qurʾan collection at the Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum, and the David Collection in Copenhagen. The book presents a
- ["Super Saver" Annual Meeting Registration Rate Ends Soon](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/super-saver-annual-meeting-registration-rate-ends-soon-2/) - There are just a few days left to take advantage of the “super saver” discount registration rate for the IQSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas! The Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings, November 18-22, is a valuable opportunity to connect with scholars from around the world and explore the latest in Qur’anic research. The “super saver” rate available for IQSA
- [Read, Write, and Share Commentaries on Q Hûd 11:25-99](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-q-hud-1125-99/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 11: 25-99. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical
- [Call for Ph.D. Student “Lightning Talk” Papers at IQSA Annual Meeting 2016](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-ph-d-student-lightning-talk-papers-at-iqsa-annual-meeting-2016/) - At the 2016 annual meeting in San Antonio, IQSA will host a session of Ph.D. student “lightning talks” as part of our Graduate Student Reception (Saturday, November 19, 11:45-12:45). These five-minute talks are meant to showcase the research of current Ph.D. students/candidates, and will be listed in the program book. Presentations should highlight research on
- [Support Qur'anic Scholarship, Join IQSA Today!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/support-quranic-scholarship-join-iqsa-today/) - IQSA is committed to growing Qur'anic scholarship and creating a community where scholars can collaborate, network, and participate in lively discussions. To ensure IQSA's continued growth, make a commitment and become a paid member. Already a member? Spread the word, encourage your friends and colleagues to become a member. Connect with IQSA on Facebook, Twitter (@iqsaweb), and
- [Communities of the Qur'an--A Conference & Future Publication](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/communities-of-the-quran-a-conference-future-publication/) - By Emran El-Badawi Contrary to popular belief there is not merely one reception of the Qur'an. In other words, there is no single method of reading, understanding and interpreting Islamic scripture, but rather many. Islamic civilization today has over 1 billion adherents, a rich medieval scholarly-cultural tradition spanning over 1 millennium, and a growing number of new (Muslim and
- [Read, Write, and Share  Commentaries on Q Yūsuf 12: 1-111)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/read-write-and-share-commentaries-on-q-yusuf-12-1-111/) - The Qurʾan Seminar invites you to add your own commentaries on a new selected passage of the Qur’an: Q. 12: 1-111. The Qurʾan Seminar, organized by IQSA, is dedicated to collaborative study of selected passages that are significant for understanding major themes and structures of the Qur’anic text. Contributors are encouraged to address the Qur’an directly and to not rely on classical exegesis
- [Qur'anic Studies, a Political Philology?](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quranic-studies-a-political-philology/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research 2 no. 5, Mareike Koertner reviews Angelika Neuwirth's Koranforschung – eine politische Philologie? (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014). In this book Neuwirth presents a concise work of her larger theories of contextualizing the qur'anic text within the intellectual framework of Late Antiquity. She suggests that the study of
- [Write for us!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/write-for-us/) - New coordinator at the IQSA blog From this week on, the IQSA blog will have a new coordinator, Mehdy Shaddel, an independent scholar based in Iran, with interests in the Qur’an, late-ancient religion, and early Islamic history. The previous coordinator, Professor Vanessa De Gifis of the Wayne State University, is now the co-editor of our Journal, JIQSA. We
- [Recent Publications on Qur’an-related Themes](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publications-on-quran-related-themes/) - Patricia Crone, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, E. J. Brill Description: Patricia Crone’s Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of
- [An Apocalyptic Reading of Qur’an 17:1-8](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/an-apocalyptic-reading-of-quran-171-8/) - By Mehdy Shaddel* Modern scholarship on the Qur’an has, since long, pointed out three problems with the traditional interpretation of Q Isrāʾ 17:1 as a scriptural testimonium for Muḥammad’s ‘ascension’ story. The first is that there is nothing in the verse, and not even in the whole pericope, to suggest that the ‘servant’ (ʿabd) mentioned
- [IQSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio: Full Schedule Available Now!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-in-san-antonio-full-schedule-available-now/) - IQSA has an exciting program line up for the Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The full schedule is now available! To view the schedule, please visit the Annual Meeting 2016 page HERE. The IQSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio is scheduled to take place 18-21 November 2016, in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. Registration is
- [New Edition of the Ṣanʿāʾ Palimpsest](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-edition-of-the-ṣanʿaʾ-palimpsest/) - A new edition of the famous Ṣanʿāʾ Qur’an palimpsest, by Dr Asma Hilali of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, will be published later this year by Oxford University Press as part of their Qur’anic Studies series. The Ṣanʿāʾ codex, discovered in 1972 in the Grand Mosque of Ṣanʿāʾ (Sanaa), Yemen, is one of the
- [Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/les-origines-du-coran-le-coran-des-origines/) - In the latest installment of Review of Qur’anic Research 2 no. 6, W. S. Chahanovich reviews Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origins, a volume edited by Francois Déroche, Christian Robin, and Michel Zink. Les origines is a testimony to the robust tradition of European qur’anic scholarship and provides the reader with focused contributions
- [Online Corpora of Classical Arabic Texts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/online-corpora-of-classical-arabic-texts/) - It is a truism that the advent of the internet has made life much easier, and this is no less true for academics than other people. One particular way in which the internet could be of use to, inter alia, historians is by making the building of huge corpora of texts much simpler. Moreover, such
- [Announcing International Qur’an Conference 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/announcing-international-quran-conference-2017/) - The second biennial international Qur’an conference of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will be held on July 4-6, 2017 in the Zarrouk Palace, Carthage, Tunisia, in collaboration with Beit al Hikma (The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts). For more information please see the announcement here. IQSA is committed to growing Qur’anic scholarship
- [Lecture Series with Issam Eido: A Thematic Exploration of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/lecture-series-with-issam-eido-a-thematic-exploration-of-the-quran/) - A Thematic Exploration of the Qur'an lecture series will be held at Vanderbilt University. These lectures will focus on grammar, rhetoric and conceptual aspects of different topics and passages in the Qur'an. The lectures will be a ground for students of Islamic Studies, Arabic Language and other related fields to explore several interpretive tools that
- [Public Lecture Series: The Qurʾān between Judaism and Christianity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/public-lecture-series-the-qurʾan-between-judaism-and-christianity/) - A Public Engagement Initiative funded by the British Academy Hosted at the University of Nottingham, co-Sponsored by the Karimia Institute What can the Qurʾān, the Holy Scripture of Islam, teach us about Judaism and Christianity? How does knowledge about Judaism and Christianity help us better to understand the Qurʾān? This public lecture series seeks to
- [IQSA Membership](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-membership/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association, IQSA, is committed to growing Qur’anic scholarship and creating a community where scholars can collaborate, network, and participate in lively discussions. To ensure IQSA’s continued growth, make a commitment and become a member. IQSA members enjoy exclusive access to Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR), Qur’an Seminar, membership directory, job board,
- [New Volume: Denkraum Spätantike: Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran, Herausgegeben von Nora Schmidt, Angelika Neuwirth, Nora Katharina Schmid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-volume-denkraum-spatantike-reflexionen-von-antiken-im-umfeld-des-koran-herausgegeben-von-nora-schmidt-angelika-neuwirth-nora-katharina-schmid/) - ‚Spätantike‘ ist nicht nur ein hochgradig ambivalenter Begriff in der europäischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Lange Zeit bezeichnete er eine Epoche, die durch den Niedergang einer ehemals blühenden antiken Hochkultur geprägt war. In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten ist die Spätantike zunehmend zu einem internationalen und interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt geworden, und ein Durchbruch zu einer inklusiveren Sicht zeichnet sich ab.
- [Book Launch: The Qur'an Seminar Commentary](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/book-launch-the-quran-seminar-commentary/) - Mehdi Azaiez and Gabriel Said Reynolds (editors) along with De Gruyter Press are pleased to announce a book launch in celebration of: The Qur'an Seminar Commentary: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages / Le Qur'an Seminar: Commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques, to take place during the 2016 annual meeting of the International Quranic Studies
- [Important Reminders & Requests](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/important-reminders-requests/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are still over one month away from the 2016 Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 18-21. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends. The preliminary conference program has been posted HERE; the official Program Book PDF will be published
- [The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-spirit-and-the-letter-approaches-to-the-esoteric-interpretation-of-the-quran/) - Edited by Annabel Keeler and Sajjad H. Rizvi, this volume is the first to focus specifically on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur’anic exegesis and to show the plurality of ways it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions. Concern with the inner, spiritual implications of the Qur’an has usually been
- [Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reclaiming-islamic-tradition-modern-interpretations-of-the-classical-heritage/) - Edited by Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad Khan Recent events in the Islamic world have demonstrated the endurance, neglect and careful reshaping of the classical Islamic heritage. A range of modern Islamic movements and intellectuals has sought to reclaim certain concepts, ideas, persons and trends from the Islamic tradition. Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical
- [Arabs and Empires Before Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/arabs-and-empires-before-islam/) - IQSA members - the final Review of Qur'anic Research for 2016 is up! In the latest installment of RQR, Dr. Ilkka Lindstedt reviews Arabs and Empires Before Islam (Greg Fisher, ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015). With contributions by over 20 leading experts of pre-Islamic Arabia, it is a formidable achievement in the field of
- [IQSA Call for Papers 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-call-for-papers-2017/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for the 2017 Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 18-21, 2017. The Annual Meeting includes panels for each of IQSA’s six program units: Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus The Qur’an: Surah Studies Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics The Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition The
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 3 no. 1 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-1-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research, Fred M. Donner reviews Michael Penn’s When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015). Since the publication of Patricia Crone and Michael Cook’s Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World (1980), several collections of non-Muslim sources
- [Qurʾān Seminar Commentary OPEN ACCESS](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/qurʾan-seminar-commentary-open-access/) - IQSA is delighted to announce that the Qurʾān Seminar Commentary (De Gruyter 2016), offering new insights on the Qur'an from 25 scholars, is now available for free (see here). The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary, including contributions in English and French from the perspective of different disciplines, offers a collaborative study of 50 central Qurʾān passages. A full
- [Review of Qur'anic Research Vol. 3 no. 2 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-2-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research, Orhan Elmaz reviews Christian Peltz’s two-volume Der Koran des Abū l-ʿAlāʾ (Weisbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013). Peltz’s work is dedicated to a text unique in classical Arabic literature in many respects: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1057) Kitāb al-Fuṣūl wa’l-ghāyāt fī tamjīd allāh wa’l-mawāʿiẓ. Maʿarrī’s work has drawn scholarly
- [Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics Call for Papers](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/society-for-the-study-of-muslim-ethics-call-for-papers/) - The ninth annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics will be held January 4-7, 2018, at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon, to be held concurrently with the meeting of the Society for Christian Ethics and the Society for Jewish Ethics. Proposals dealing with any aspect of Muslim ethics—theoretical or applied,
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 3 no.3 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-3-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research, Johanna Pink (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg) reviews The Qur’an and Its Readers Worldwide edited by Suha Taji-Farouki (Oxford University Press, 2015). This volume presents readers with an unprecedented broad perspective on the global field of Muslim qurʾānic exegesis. It brings together ten chapters that bear witness to exegetical approaches from
- [IQSA Studies in the Qurʾan (ISIQ)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-studies-in-the-qurʾan-isiq/) - IQSA seeks proposals and suggestions for works to be included in its new monograph series, IQSA Studies in the Qurʾan (ISIQ). The Editorial Committee plans to publish in three areas: Scholarly monographs devoted to Qur’anic studies. Proposals that reflect the ethos of the Association – the analysis of the Qurʾan as a text of Late Antiquity – are
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 3 no.4 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-4-2017/) - In the latest installment of IQSA's Review of Qur’anic Research, Devin Stewart (Emory University) reviews David Hollenberg’s Beyond the Qurʾān: Early Ismāʿīlī taʾwīl and the Secrets of the Prophets (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016). The book is a discussion of taʾwīl, allegorical or symbolic interpretation of the Qurʾān, based mainly on Ismāʿīlī works
- [2017 International Meeting Tunisia](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2017-international-meeting-tunisia/) - IQSA will hold its second biennial International Qurʾan Conference in collaboration with Beit al-Hikma (The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Carthage, Tunisia in just ONE month from July 4-6, 2017. This meeting is convened by Pr. Abdelmajid Charfi and Pr. Mokdad Arfa (for Beit al Hikma) and by
- [Blog with IQSA!](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/blog-with-iqsa/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is the first professional guild of its kind dedicated to the critical study and investigation of the Qur'an. IQSA is committed to reinforcing its community of students, scholars, publishers, and members of the public through regular communications, one of which is the weekly blog post. This summer IQSA welcomes YOU
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 3 no.5 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-5-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.5), Vanessa De Gifis (Wayne State University) reviews Tafsīr and Islamic Intellectual History (London: Oxford University Press/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014), a collection of studies edited by Andreas Görke and Johanna Pink. In this volume, Görke and Pink pose an essential inquiry about tafsīr: “What
- [2017 International Meeting THIS WEEK](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2017-international-meeting-this-week/) - IQSA will hold its second biennial International Qurʾan Conference in collaboration with Beit al-Hikma (The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Carthage, Tunisia in just TWO DAYS from July 4-6, 2017. This meeting is convened by Pr. Abdelmajid Charfi and Pr. Mokdad Arfa (for Beit al Hikma) and by
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 3 no.6 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-6-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research, Daniel Brubaker reviews François Déroche’s Qurʾans of the Umayyads: A First Overview (Leiden: Brill, 2014), "a book that brings the full and mature range of Déroche’s multifaceted work in this field to bear upon the question of the state(s) and stages of development of the Qur’an as
- [Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/before-orthodoxy-the-satanic-verses-in-early-islam/) - "One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today—of all sects—deny that the
- [Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/before-orthodoxy-the-satanic-verses-in-early-islam-2/) - "One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today—of all sects—deny that the
- [Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/islam-and-its-past-jahiliyya-late-antiquity-and-the-quran/) - "Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur’an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur’an. The collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current state of Qur’anic studies in the Western academy. It shows how interest in the field has recently
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 3 no.7 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-7-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research (Vol. 3 no.7), David Larsen (New York University) reviews The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur’anic Exegesis (Edited by S.R. Burge: Oxford University Press, 2015). "If exegesis is not the beginning point of Islamic scholarship, it was present at the beginning, and in modern times it
- [Arabic in Context: Celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/arabic-in-context-celebrating-400-years-of-arabic-at-leiden-university/) - *Content courtesy of Brill Publisher's Website "The writing of Arabic’s linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic’s past and to illustrate how much there is
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2018/) - In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Boston by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2012 or later). The prize winner will receive $250 and an expanded and edited version of the paper
- [New Publication - "Exploring the Qur'an: Context and Impact"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-exploring-the-quran-context-and-impact/) - (Content courtesy of I.B. Tauris Publishers) Description: "The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims. But in a modern context of intercultural sensitivity, what the Qur'an says and means are perhaps more urgent questions than ever before. This major new book by one of the
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 3 no.8 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-8-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research (Vol. 3 no.8), Cecilia Palombo (Princeton University) reviews Andrew G. Bannister's An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur'ān (Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2014). The relationship between “the oral” and “the written” is one of the most fertile and unresolved questions in the study of early Islam, and one that
- [New Publication "The Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Introduction"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-the-quran-a-historical-critical-introduction/) - (Content courtesy of Edinburgh University Press) The International Qur'anic Studies Association is pleased to announce the publication of The Qur'an: A Historical-Critical Introduction by member Nicolai Sinai (Chair of Programming Committee). Nicolai Sinai is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He has published on the Qur’an, on
- [Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī and the Qurʾān: Tafsīr and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/ṭanṭawi-jawhari-and-the-qurʾan-tafsir-and-social-concerns-in-the-twentieth-century/) - "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 educational system and other Muslim places of learning in the early twentieth
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 3 no.9 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-9-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 3 no.9), Peter G. Riddell (Melbourne School of Theology) reviews Eloïse Brac de la Perrière and Monique Buresi’s Le Coran de Gwalior: Polysémie d'un manuscrit à peintures (Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2016.). "One of the most significant military success of Tamerlane occurred on 17 December
- [The Routledge Handbook on Early Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-routledge-handbook-on-early-islam/) - The formative period of Islam remains highly contested. From the beginning of modern scholarship on this formative period, scholars have questioned traditional Muslim accounts on early Islam. The scholarly fixation is mirrored by sectarian groups and movements within Islam, most of which trace their origins to this period. Moreover, contemporary movements from Salafists to modernists
- [Suggestions for Presenting a Conference Paper at IQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/suggestions-for-presenting-a-conference-paper-at-iqsa-2/) - With the IQSA Annual Meeting quickly approaching this month, there has never been a better time to catch up on Dr. Devin Stewart's (Emory University) suggestions for effective presentations at academic conferences! Attendance at many conferences over the years and observing the presentations of both neophytes and older scholars has proved to me that
- [Le parfait manuel des sciences coraniques al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān de Ğalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī (849/1445–911/1505)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/le-parfait-manuel-des-sciences-coraniques-al-itqan-fi-ʿulum-al-qurʾan-de-galal-ad-din-as-suyuṭi-849-1445-911-1505/) - Dans Le parfait manuel des sciences coraniques al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān de Ğalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī (849/1445–911/1505), nous avons une description complète des problèmes relatifs au texte coranique qui se posent encore aujourd’hui, des solutions proposées et des méthodes employées. Ce texte témoigne de la liberté du débat et de la variété des solutions. Il s’agit
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 3 no.10 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-3-no-10-2017/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research (Vol. 3 no.10), Feras Hamza (University of Wollongong in Dubai) reviews Christian Lange's Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). "There was a time not long ago in Islamic Studies when one was hard pressed to find much about the Islamic afterlife,
- [Call for Papers: International Conference and Workshop "The Translation of the Qur’an in Indonesia"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-international-conference-and-workshop-the-translation-of-the-quran-in-indonesia/) - International Conference and Workshop "The Translation of the Qur’an in Indonesia" Organised by Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Department of Islamic Studies, and Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Graduate School Yogyakarta, July 30-31, 2018 Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has brought forth an ever-growing number of Qur’an translations during the colonial period and after the nation’s independence
- [IQSA 2017 Annual Meeting - Conference Report](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-2017-annual-meeting-conference-report/) - The fifth Annual Meeting of the International Qur'ānic Studies Association, held in Boston from November 17-21, brought together many of the foremost scholars within qur'ānic studies, for four days of engaging panels, presentations, and roundtables on all aspects of the text and its reception. Taking place concurrently with the American Academy of Religion and Society
- [The Qur’an and the Just Society](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quran-and-the-just-society/) - Ramon Harvey* I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to read titles dropping vertically down the spines of books. A familiar experience for many students, even if it is being increasingly replaced by the ubiquitous blue-white glow of the screen. Around me were
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 4 no.1 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-1-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4 no.1), Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter) reviews Rawand Osman's Female Personalities in the Qur’an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi’i Islam (London & New York: Routledge, 2015). In her review, Amin analyzes this "comprehensive discussion of all the female personalities mentioned in the
- [New Publication "John of Damascus and Islam: Christian Heresiology and the Intellectual Background to Earliest Christian-Muslim Relations"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-john-of-damascus-and-islam-christian-heresiology-and-the-intellectual-background-to-earliest-christian-muslim-relations/) - How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In John of Damascus and Islam, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the term
- [Arabic in Context: Celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University.](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/arabic-in-context-celebrating-400-years-of-arabic-at-leiden-university-2/) - The writing of Arabic’s linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic’s past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 4 no.2 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-2-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4 no.2), Adis Duderija (Griffith University) reviews Koran erklӓrt edited by Willi Steuhl (Berlin: Suhrkapm Verlag, 2017). In his review, Duderija writes..."As a scholar from a Muslim background and someone with an activist mindset, I, for better or worse, over the last decade or so, have actively
- [Johanne Christiansen wins Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/johanne-christiansen-wins-andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-2018/) - The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is delighted to announce that the second annual Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize (open to papers delivered by junior scholars at the 2017 annual meeting) has been awarded to Johanne Christiansen of Aarhus University for her paper "'And Their Prayer at the House is Nothing but a Whistling and a Clapping
- [Call for Papers Deadline TOMORROW](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-deadline-tomorrow/) - The deadline to submit paper proposals for IQSA's 2018 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018 is TOMORROW, March 7 at 11:59pm EST. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by midnight March 7, 2018 (note: SBL membership is NOT required for proposal submission). Submission links can be found
- [Workshop: Linked Data and Syriac Sources, Amsterdam, March 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/workshop-linked-data-and-syriac-sources-amsterdam-march-2018/) - Around 30 scholars from more than a dozen different countries met in Amsterdam in mid-March for two days of discussions and presentations on developments in digital humanities in Syriac language and literature. Participants were welcomed to the workshop and Amsterdam by Professor Joke van Saane, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Theology at VU Amsterdam and
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 3 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-3-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.3), John Kaltner (Rhodes College) reviews George Bristow's Sharing Abraham? Narrative Worldview, Biblical and Qur'anic Interpretation & Comparative Theology in Turkey (Cambridge, MA: Doorlight Academic, 2017). In his review, Kaltner writes... “Bristow aims to present an alternative model of how Christian-Muslim dialogue can
- [European Academy of Religion First Annual Conference Bologna, March 5 – 8, 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/european-academy-of-religion-first-annual-conference-bologna-march-5-8-2018/) - The First Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion took place in Bologna, from March 5 – 8, 2018. Several panels showcased developments in qur’anic studies, such as its emergence in Late Antiquity. This panel included papers on The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Critical Reconsideration, (Massimo Campanini, Trento), The Topos of the “preserved
- [Academic Colloquium: Reading is Believing? Sacred texts in a Scientific Age Cambridge, March 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/academic-colloquium-reading-is-believing-sacred-texts-in-a-scientific-age-cambridge-march-2018/) - A three-day colloquium on science and scripture in Christianity and Islam was held at the end of March, at Clare College, Cambridge by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. The larger project, on Science and Scripture in Christianity and Islam, examines the extent to which
- [Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qur’ān Exegesis: A Study of Early Ibn ‘Abbās Traditions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/reconstruction-of-a-source-of-ibn-isḥaqs-life-of-the-prophet-and-early-quran-exegesis-a-study-of-early-ibn-abbas-traditions/) - This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥādīth) found in Ibn Isḥāq's Biography (Sīra) of the prophet Muḥammad, widely considered one of the most important early historical texts on the Prophet's life. Through a meticulous isnād-cum-matn analysis, the author reveals that Ibn Isḥāq relied on Muḥammad b. Abī Muḥammad, a
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 4 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-4-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.4), Marion Holmes Katz (New York University) reviews Hina Azam's Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). In her review, Katz writes... "Hina Azam’s study not only makes an incisive contribution to the literature on Islamic penal
- [The 5th Annual Conference of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS), Exeter, UK](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-5th-annual-conference-of-the-british-association-of-islamic-studies-brais-exeter-uk/) - Scholars of the Qur’an and Islam from around the world came together at the University of Exeter in early April for the 5th annual conference of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS), hosted by the University’s Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies. The panel on “Qu’ranic Studies I: Qur’anic Contexts, Concepts and Terms” included
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 5 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-5-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.5), Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (University of Aberdeen) reviews Shahab Ahmed's Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017). In her review, Hadromi-Allouche writes... "Through discussions of fifty early reports about the satanic verses, the current volume strives to emphasize the
- [The Qur’ān: A Form-Critical History](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quran-a-form-critical-history/) - The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, varied, and complex. Accordingly, the introductory chapter of this book demonstrates the application of form criticism to the text. Chapter two then presents a form-critical study of the prayer genre. It identifies three productive
- [2018 IQSA Annual Meeting FAQs](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2018-iqsa-annual-meeting-faqs/) - Have questions about the 2018 IQSA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018. We have answers! Read up on some Frequently Asked Questions about this year's annual meeting below: ANNUAL MEETING FAQs Q: What are the dates of IQSA's Annual Meeting? A: The IQSA Annual Meeting begins and ends November 16-19, 2018 one day
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 6 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-6-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.6), David S. Powers (Cornell University) reviews The Study Qur'an: A New Translation and Commentary edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, and Mohammed Rustom (New York: HarperOne, 2015). In his review, Powers writes... "Following in the footsteps of the
- [Publisher's Corner - The Koran in English: A Biography](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publishers-corner-the-koran-in-english-a-biography/) - The Koran in English: A Biography The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing,
- [Second Aramaic & Syriac Studies Conference at the Cairo University 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/second-aramaic-syriac-studies-conference-at-the-cairo-university-2019/) - The Department of Oriental Languages will hold its Second Aramaic and Syriac Studies Conference at the Cairo University (Egypt) between February-March of 2019. Conference Panels Include: Grammar and Linguistic Studies Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Syriac Rhetoric Armenian and Syriac Studies Arabic and Syriac Studies Comparative Semitic and Syriac Studies Archaeological studies lnscriptions and Graffity Old
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 7 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-7-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.7), W. Richard Oakes, Jr. (Independent Scholar) reviews Nevin Reda's The al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qur'an's Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017). In his review, Oakes writes... "In The al-Baqara Crescendo, Nevin Reda does an exceptional job of describing the Qur’ān in
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 8 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-8-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.8), Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame) reviews Youssouf T. Sangaré's Le scellement de la prophétie en Islam: Khatm al-nubuwwa (Paris: Geuthner, 2018). In his review, Reynolds writes… "Le scellement de la prophétie en Islam is a learned and well-argued study of the qurʾānichapax legomenon khātam
- [The Qur'an: Analysis and Explanation القرآن تحليل وبيان (Arabic Version)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/the-quran-analysis-and-explanation-القرآن-تحليل-وبيان-arabic-version/) - نتناول في الجزء الثاني من هذا الكتاب، تسع عشرة سورة (من السورة العاشرة إلى السورة الخامسة والعشرين)، وهذا ما يغطي تقريباً الثلث الثاني من القرآن. وهذ الجزء متابعة لمشروع يدرس القرآن: لغةً، ومضمونًا، وتاريخًا. والكتاب يحتوي على الأقسام التالية: القراءات (محمد المسيِّح)؛ الناسخ والمنسوخ، والتحليل النقدي (مالك مِسلماني). تطوير في القراءات يعكس تطور القراءات وتعددها
- [European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting and Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting July 30 – August 3, 2018 | Helsinki, Finland](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/european-association-of-biblical-studies-annual-meeting-and-society-of-biblical-literature-international-meeting-july-30-august-3-2018-helsinki-finland/) - The University of Helsinki hosted the European Association of Biblical Studies’ annual meeting, which this year was held together with the Society of Biblical Literature’s international meeting, from July 30 – August 3, 2018. Delegates were welcomed to the conference by Outi Lehtipuu, chair of the local organizing committee, John F. Kutsko, SBL’s executive director
- [Call for Papers: The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-the-eighth-north-american-syriac-symposium/) - The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium Brown University | Providence, RI June 16-19, 2019 The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium will convene at Brown University on June 16-19, 2019. Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together scholars and students for exchange and discussion on a wide variety of topics
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 9 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-9-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.9), Johanna Pink (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) reviews Kristian Petersen's Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, & Language in the Han Kitab (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). In her review, Pink writes… "Some readers of the Review of Qurʾanic Research might wonder whether a book on Islam in
- [Beyond Timbuktu: Preserving the Manuscripts of Djenné, Mali](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/beyond-timbuktu-preserving-the-manuscripts-of-djenne-mali/) - A display at the British Library will chart and celebrate a remarkable project to preserve and digitize Malian manuscripts from Djenné. Timbuktu hit the headlines in 2013 when local people rallied together to save their manuscripts from militants, who were occupying the city. Djenné, a World Heritage Site, founded in the eighth century, often described
- [CALL FOR PAPERS -- International Qur’an Conference 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-international-quran-conference-2019/) - CALL FOR PAPERS -- International Qur’an Conference Tangier Global Forum University of New England Tangier, Morocco (25-26 July, 2019) The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its third biennial conference July 25-26, 2019, which is hosted by the Tangier Global Forum of the University of New England, Tangier, Morocco. The main
- [New Publication Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Juan Cole](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-muhammad-prophet-of-peace-amid-the-clash-of-empires-by-juan-cole/) - Below is an adapted excerpt from Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires by Juan Cole. Copyright © 2018. Available from Nation Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. This and the image of the cover are reproduced by kind permission of the author and publishers. The Companions
- [First IQSA Studies in the Qur’ān Publication with Lockwood Press "A Qur’ānic Apocalypse: A Reading of the Thirty-Three Last Sūras of the Qur’ān" by Michel Cuypers](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/first-iqsa-studies-in-the-quran-publication-with-lockwood-press-a-quranic-apocalypse-a-reading-of-the-thirty-three-last-suras-of-the-quran-by-michel-cuypers/) - IQSA is proud to announce that the first publication in the Studies in the Qur’ān Series, together with Lockwood Press, is now available from ISD: https://isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=93549 The present volume closes a trilogy devoted to the exegesis of the Qurʾān analyzed according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric, a method of textual analysis developed in the
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 4 no. 10 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-4-no-10-2018/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 4, no.10), Roberto Tottoli (Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale) reviews Pier Mattia Tommasino's The Venetian Qurʾan: A Renaissance Companion to Islam (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). In his review, Roberto Tottoli writes "One of the main problems in contemporary scholarship is the loss of multilingual expertise
- [Fourth International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur’ān: Qur’ānic Studies in the First Three Centuries | October 20 – 21, Ankara](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/fourth-international-symposium-on-rethinking-the-quran-quranic-studies-in-the-first-three-centuries-october-20-21-ankara/) - The Fourth International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur’ān: Qur’ānic Studies in the First Three Centuries, was successfully held by the Research Institute for the Philosophical Foundation of the Disciplines from October 20 - 21, 2018, Ankara. Ismahan Yurt, head of Institute, gave the opening address, which was followed by papers by Professor Mehmet Said Hatipoğlu
- [Biblical Traditions in the Qur’ān, British Academy, London | October 11 – 12, 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/biblical-traditions-in-the-quran-british-academy-london-october-11-12-2018/) - Delegates were welcomed to the conference at the British Academy, in London by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford), who explained the impetuous behind the conference; a new publication on biblical traditions in the Qur’ān, which will hopefully go to press in 2019. While noting the continuing importance of the contribution made to the field by, amongst others,
- [Tenth SOAS Qur’ān Conference,  November 9 – 10, 2018, London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tenth-soas-quran-conference-november-9-10-2018-london/) - Around a hundred delegates met in London from November 9 – 10, 2018 for the Tenth SOAS Qur’ān Conference. The conference theme was “Text, Translation and Culture” and featured presentations in both English and Arabic. The conference began with an opening address by Professor Abdel Haleem, who first established the conference. The first morning featured two
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 2 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-2-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.2), Ayman S. Ibrahim (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) reviews Juan Cole's Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (New York: Nation Books, 2018). In his review, Ibrahim writes "In recent years, the field of Islamic Studies has witnessed a growing trend centered on reinterpreting early Islam.
- [New Publication by Johanna Pink, "Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-by-johanna-pink-muslim-qurʾanic-interpretation-today-media-genealogies-and-interpretive-communities/) - Johanna Pink’s latest book, Muslim Qur’ānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies, and Interpretive Communities (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019) is now out! IQSA readers can claim 25% off using the code QURAN when ordering directly from Equinox. Muslim Qurʾānic interpretation today is beset by tensions: tensions between localising and globalising forces; tensions between hierarchical and egalitarian social ideals; tensions
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 3 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-3-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.3), Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame) reviews Francisco del Río Sánchez (ed.), Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018). In his review, Reynolds writes "While the volume under review is dedicated to the Qurʾān’s relationship to Jewish Christianity, a number of
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 4 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-4-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.4), Suleyman Dost (Brandeis University) reviews Abdur Raheem Kidwai's God’s Word, Man’s Interpretations: A Critical Study of the 21st Century Translations of the Quran (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2018). In his review, Dost writes "Colleagues and fellow scholars of Islam, how many times have you been
- [Registration NOW OPEN! IQSA International Qur'an Conference 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/registration-now-open-iqsa-international-quran-conference-2019/) - International Qur’an Conference Tangier Global Forum University of New England Tangier, Morocco (25-26 July, 2019) The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to open registration for its third biennial conference from July 25-26, 2019, hosted by the Tangier Global Forum of the University of New England, Tangier, Morocco. The main theme of the conference
- [Register NOW! IQSA San Diego Annual Meeting 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/register-now-iqsa-san-diego-annual-meeting-2019/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in San Diego, California from November 22-25, 2019. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE! Reserve your spot before rates increase on May 23rd! To become an IQSA member click HERE. We
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 5 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-5-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.5), David Cook (Rice University) reviews Michel Cuypers (ed.) A Qurʾānic Apocalypse: A Reading of the Thirty-Three Last Sūrahs of the Qurʾān (Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 2018). In his review, Cook writes "That the Qurʾān as a text has apocalyptic affinities has been the focus of scholarly research
- [New Publication: Communities of the Qur’an (Oneworld, 2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-communities-of-the-quran-oneworld-2019/) - Oneworld Publications has just released a new book, Communities of the Qur’an: Dialogue, Debate and Diversity in the 21st Century, edited by IQSA's own Executive Director, Emran al-Badawi (Associate Professor and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Houston), and Paula Sanders (Professor of History and Director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 6 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-6-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.6), Stephen R. Burge (Institute of Ismaili Studies) reviews Harald Motzki's Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis: A Study of Early Ibn ʿAbbās Traditions (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017). In his review, Burge writes "Harald Motzki, famous
- [Recent Publication: The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration  (The Islamic Texts Society)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-the-condemnation-of-pride-and-self-admiration-the-islamic-texts-society/) - The Islamic Texts Society has recently published a translation of Book XXIX of al-Ghazālĩ’s Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din), The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration, by Dr. Mohammed Rustom (Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University). The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration is the twenty-ninth chapter of The Revival of the
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 7 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-7-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.7), Maria De Cillis (The Institute of Ismaili Studies) reviews Seyfeddin Kara's In Search of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Codex: History and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qurʾān (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2018). In her review, Cillis writes "In his new volume, In Search of
- [New Publication: Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Iran (Oxford University Press, 2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-approaches-to-the-quran-in-contemporary-iran-oxford-university-press-2019/) - Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, has recently published a new volume in its Qur’anic Studies Series, Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Iran, edited by Alessandro Cancian (Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies). The volume is composed of seventeen chapters that touch upon different aspects of
- [A. Jamme's Miscellanées d'ancient arabe](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/a-jammes-miscellanees-dancient-arabe/) - For those interested in Arabic philology and pre-Islamic Arabia, a new online resource is now available. The Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR), in conjunction with the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures, at The Catholic University of America is pleased to announce that digital copies of A. Jamme’s twenty-one volume Miscellanées d'ancient
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 8 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-8-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.8), Sami Helewa, S.J. (Campion College, University of Regina) reviews Khaleel Mohammed's David in the Muslim Tradition: The Bathsheba Affair (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). In his review, Helewa writes... "The biblical story of the Israelite king David son of Jesse contains multi-dimensional elements regarding his
- [Report on the International Qur’an Conference, July 25-26, 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/report-on-the-international-quran-conference-july-25-26-2019/) - Qur’anic studies may be commonly perceived as straddling something of a great divide, both institutional and intellectual, between Western scholarship and that produced in the Muslim-majority world. At the fourth biennial international meeting of IQSA held in Tangier, Morocco, scholars from at least 14 different countries convened under the aegis of an academic society helping
- [New Publication: The Making of the Mosque by Essam S. Ayyad (Gorgias Press, 2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-the-making-of-the-mosque-by-essam-s-ayyad-gorgias-press-2019/) - Gorgias Press has recently published a new book, The Making of the Mosque: A Survey of Religious Imperative, by Essam Ayyad. The Making of the Mosque is available to IQSA blog readers at the special price of $87.50 (30% off, RRP $125) until September 30th with the coupon code MM30%. Please note, this discount is
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 9 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-9-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.9), Eléonore Cellard (Collège de France) reviews Asma Hilali's The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qurʾan in the First Centuries AH (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). In her review, Cellard writes "'The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qurʾan in the First Centuries AH' by Asma Hilali aims
- [Recent Publication: Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries (Brill)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-qurʾan-quotations-preserved-on-papyrus-documents-7th-10th-centuries-brill/) - Brill has recently published Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries, edited by Andreas Kaplony and Michael Marx. This volume (2) in the Documenta Coranica series documents early uses of Qur’anic quotations in Arabic documents during the early period of Islam. Additionally, it explores the problems associated with radiocarbon dating medieval documents and Qur’anic
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 5 no. 10 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-5-no-10-2019/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 5, no.10), Majd Al-Mallah (Grand Valley State University) reviews Richard Serrano's Qurʾān and the Lyric Imperative (New York: Lexington Books, 2016). In his review, Al-Mallah writes "As the title suggests, Richard Serrano’s Qurʾān and the Lyric Imperative examines the Qurʾān, but the intention is not to explain
- [New Publication—History of the Qur’an: A Critical Study by Shehzad Saleem](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-history-of-the-quran-a-critical-study-by-shehzad-saleem/) - Dr. Shehzad Saleem, fellow at al-Mawrid, has recently published a new book, History of the Qur’an: A Critical Study. From the introduction of the book: A number of illustrious scholars in the past have undertaken to write down this collection and transmission history of the Qur’ān. What then is the need to revisit and synthesize
- [Qur’an Gateway: New Tool for the Critical Study of Qurʾanic Texts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/quran-gateway-new-tool-for-the-critical-study-of-qurʾanic-texts/) - IQSA is extremely excited to promote Quran Gateway, the world’s first digital critical edition of the Qur’an. This software contains, among other things, advanced search functions, translations, and a database of historical Qur’anic materials. It is an indispensable tool for researchers and students in the field of Qur’anic Studies. For more information, please watch the
- [Recent Publication—The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage by Angelika Neuwirth (Oxford University Press, 2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-the-quran-and-late-antiquity-a-shared-heritage-by-angelika-neuwirth-oxford-university-press-2019/) - IQSA is excited to share a recent publication from the eminent Qur’an scholar Angelika Neuwirth. Neuwirth’s Der Koran als Text der Spätantike has been translated into English by Samuel Wilder and published under the title The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage. SYNOPSIS Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 2 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-2-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur'anic Research (vol. 6, no.2), Sidney H. Griffith (The Catholic University of America) reviews Holger M. Zellentin's (ed.), The Qur’an’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins (London & New York: Routledge, 2019). In his review, Griffith writes "The title of this important collection of scholarly
- [New Publication: "An Early Christian Reaction to Islam: Išū‘yahb III and the Muslim Arabs" (Gorgias Press, 2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-an-early-christian-reaction-to-islam-isuyahb-iii-and-the-muslim-arabs-gorgias-press-2019/) - Gorgias Press has recently published a new book, An Early Christian Reaction to Islam: Išū‘yahb III and the Muslim Arabs, by Iskandar Bcheiry. OVERVIEW The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. On this date the Sasanid Empire collapsed and the major part of the Byzantine dominion
- [New Publication— "Allah: God in the Qur'an" by Gabriel Said Reynolds (Yale University Press)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-allah-god-in-the-quran-by-gabriel-said-reynolds-yale-university-press/) - IQSA’s own Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic studies and theology at Notre Dame University, has recently published a new book titled Allah: God in the Qur’an (Yale University Press, 2020) Overview The theme of God’s mercy runs throughout the Qurʾan, every Sura of which (except Sura 9), begins with the invocation “In the name
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 3 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-3-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (vol. 6, no.3), Andrea Stanton (University of Denver) reviews Johanna Pink Muslim Qurʼānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities (Sheffield/Bristol, UK: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2019). In the review, Stanton writes "Have you ever wondered why Ibn Kathīr’s tafsīr is so ubiquitous online, in multiple languages, and in
- [Recent Publication: "Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean" by Erica Ferg (Routledge, 2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/recent-publication-geography-religion-gods-and-saints-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-by-erica-ferg-routledge-2019/) - Routledge has recently released a new book, Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean by Erica Ferg. This book is the ninth volume in the series Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, edited by Greg Fisher. Description Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of
- [IQSA Corona Qur’an Seminars on Zoom (#IQSAZoom)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-corona-quran-seminars-on-zoom-iqsazoom/) - Staring last week, IQSA began its sponsorship of new weekly online (Zoom) seminars in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame to bring scholars and students of the Qur’an together at a time when many are in social isolation. These seminars are part of IQSA’s larger mission to advance “Cutting edge, intellectually rigorous, academic research
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 4 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-4-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no.4), David Marshall (The World Council of Churches) reviews Mark Durie’s The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). In his review, Marshall writes "Mark Durie’s 'The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes' is a highly original work and a substantial contribution
- [IQSA Corona Qur’an Seminars on Zoom (#IQSAZoom)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-corona-quran-seminars-on-zoom-iqsazoom-2/) - IQSA is now entering its fourth week of sponsorship for #IQSAZoom seminars designed to bring scholars and students of the Qur’an together at a time when many are in social isolation. These seminars are part of IQSA’s larger mission to advance “Cutting edge, intellectually rigorous, academic research on the Qurʾan” and to be “a bridge between
- [IQSA Zoom Seminar #4 Sarra Tlili, “Ecology of Wonder: the Ecological Dimensions of Three Qur’anic Motifs”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-zoom-seminar-4-sarra-tlili-ecology-of-wonder-the-ecological-dimensions-of-three-quranic-motifs/) - Check out the fourth installment in the series of IQSA Corona Qur’an Seminars on Zoom (#IQSAZoom), in which Dr. Sarra Tlili (University of Florida) speaks on “Ecology of Wonder: the Ecological Dimensions of Three Qur’anic Motifs.” View the video for free at this link! Read more about these free resources at https://iqsaweb.org/videos/, and don't forget
- [IQSA Zoom Seminar #5 Sean Anthony, “The Surprising Christology of the Annunciation Scene in Q. Maryam 19:16-21.”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-zoom-seminar-5-sean-anthony-the-surprising-christology-of-the-annunciation-scene-in-q-maryam-1916-21/) - Check out the fifth installment in the series of IQSA Corona Qur’an Seminars on Zoom (#IQSAZoom), in which Dr. Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) speaks on “The Surprising Christology of the Annunciation Scene in Q. Maryam 19:16-21.” Read more about these free resources at https://iqsaweb.org/videos/, and don't forget to continue the discussion on social media
- [Nouvelle publication: Le Coran des historiens](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/nouvelle-publication-le-coran-des-historiens/) - Le Coran des historiens Première mondiale, ce monument savant et accessible, qui réunit trente spécialistes internationaux, offre, en trois mille pages, une synthèse complète et critique des travaux passés et des recherches présentes sur les origines du Coran, sa formation et son apparition, sa composition et sa canonisation : vingt études exhaustives sur le contexte
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 6 no. 5 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-6-no-5-2020/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 6, no.5), Juliane Hammer (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) reviews Communities of the Qur'an: Dialogue, Debate, and Diversity in the 21st Century edited by Emran El-Badawi and Paula Sanders (London: Oneworld, 2020). In her review, Hammer writes "When I first saw the title of
- [IQSA Annual Meeting Update (July 2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-annual-meeting-update-july-2020/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, Given the continued risk and danger due to the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), the Boston Annual Meeting 2020, originally scheduled November 22-25, has been cancelled and moved online. The meeting will be 100% virtual and hosted by our affiliate, the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). While an online meeting cannot fully replace
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 7 no. 1 (2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-1-2021/) - In the first installment of this year's the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7 no.1), Andrew O’Connor (St. Norbert College) reviews Jeffrey Einboden's The Qur'ān And Kerygma: Biblical Receptions of the Muslim Scripture across a Millennium (Sheffield: Equinox, 2019). In the review, O'Connor writes "An enduring interest in scholarship on the Qurʾān is the text’s
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 7 no. 3 (2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-3-2021/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7, no.3), Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) reviews Michael Pregill's, The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). In the review, Firestone writes "Michael Pregill’s The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur’an sets
- [New Publication: A Prophet Has Appeared (UC Press, 2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-publication-a-prophet-has-appeared-uc-press-2021/) - University of California Press recently published a new sourcebook edited by Dr. Stephen Shoemaker: A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam Through Jewish and Christian Eyes. Publisher’s Description: Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 7 no. 4 (2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-4-2021/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7, no.4), Ameena Yovan (University of Chicago) reviews Gabriel Said Reynolds' Allah: God in the Qur’an (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). In the review, Yovan writes "Gabriel Said Reynolds’ most recent book, Allah: God in the Qur’an, explores Allah’s characterization in the Qurʾān
- [Review of Qur’anic Research, Vol. 7 no. 5 (2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-7-no-5-2021/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 7, no.5), Holger Zellentin (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) reviews Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar's Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext: Eschatologie und Apokalyptik in den mittelmekkanischen Suren (Leiden: Ferdinand Schöningh / Brill, 2020). In the review, Zellentin writes "In Ghaffar’s view, the Qurʾān retells and transforms
- [New OA Publication: "Creating the Qur'an"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/new-oa-publication-creating-the-quran/) - Looking for open access resources to enhance your study of the Qur'an? Check out the recently published Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (University of California Press, 2022) by IQSA member, Stephen J. Shoemaker (Professor and Ira E. Gaston Fellow in Christian Studies, University of Oregon). Creating the Qur’an presents the first systematic historical-critical study
- [Review of Qur'anic Research, Vol. 8 no.5 (2022)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/review-of-quranic-research-vol-8-no-5-2022/) - In the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research (Vol. 8, no.5), Joseph E. Lowry (University of Pennsylvania) reviews Structural Dividers in the Qur'an edited by Marianna Klar (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021). In the review, Lowry writes "More recent efforts in Western scholarship have looked anew at the Qurʾān’s literary structures with both curiosity about

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- [Palermo, Italy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/palermo-italy/) - IQSA Annual Meeting 2022Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre, Palermo, Sicily The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its 2022 Annual Meeting from September 5-7, 2022, hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre (Palermo, Italy). The 2022 Annual Meeting features papers on any topic within the range of the interests
- [Denver, Colorado](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/denver-co/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 18-21, 2022. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE! Reserve your spot before rates increase on July 28th! To become an IQSA member click HERE. We hope
- [JIQSA Vol.6 (2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-vol-6-2021/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.6 2021 (Lockwood Press) edited by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford University). Volume 6 is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on members.iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by signing up for membership HERE. Institutions wishing to subscribe for print and/or
- [ANNUAL MEETINGS 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2022/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association will hold two Annual Meetings in 2022: IQSA in Palermo, Italy from September 5–7 hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre, and IQSA in Denver, Colorado from November 18–21 held in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and American Academy of Religion (AAR). Follow the
- [Program Book AM 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-am-2021/) - 2021-iqsa-programbook-2Download
- [Conference Schedule](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-7/) - View the Full SBL/AAR Conference Schedule Conference Schedule: IQSA Events 2021 All times on the conference schedule are listed in CST (UTC-6:00). Register for the 2021 IQSA Annual Meeting In-Person Meeting Information Need more information on the Annual Meeting including registration rates, housing information, meeting locations, airline discounts, etc? Please visit our Annual Meeting website here. Virtual-Only
- [Program Book IM 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-im-2021/) - IQSA Program Book 2021(Virtual – July 4–11, 2021)
- [JIQSA Vol.5 (2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-vol-5-2020/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.5 2020 (Lockwood Press) edited by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford University). Volume 5 is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on members.iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by signing up for membership HERE. Institutions wishing to subscribe for print
- [Conference Schedule with Zoom Links](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-with-zoom-links/) - Register for the 2021 IQSA International Meeting IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy All times on the conference schedule are listed in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). Qur’an in Contact: Plurality of Views from Other Traditions, Disciplines and Peripheries Monday 5 July 2021 2:00 PM - Introductory remarks by IQSA and
- [Conference Schedule](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-6/) - Register for the 2021 IQSA International Meeting IQSA International Conference 2021 “Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Italy All times on the conference schedule are listed in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). Qur’an in Contact: Plurality of Views from Other Traditions, Disciplines and Peripheries Monday 5 July 2021 2:00 PM - Introductory remarks by IQSA and
- [INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/call-for-papers-iqsa-biennial-conference-2021/) - IQSA Biennial Conference 2021“Giorgio La Pira” Library, Palermo, Sicily The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its fourth biennial conference from July 4-11, 2021, hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Library (Palermo, Italy). This international conference will welcome papers on any topic within the range of the interests of the Qur’anic text
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2021/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association's Annual Meeting will be held in San Antonio, TX from November 18–21, 2021. Registration is NOW OPEN, and IQSA members can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE. To become an IQSA member click HERE. In-Person Meeting Information Need more information on the
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2021/)
- [Program Book AM 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-am-2020/) - 2020 IQSA Program Book(Virtual – November 30–December 10, 2020)
- [Conference Schedule](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-5/) - Full SBL/AAR Conference Schedule available at https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=37 Conference Schedule: IQSA Events 2020All times on the conference schedule are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5). Register for the 2020 IQSA Annual Meeting Find FAQs and Details about the Annual Meeting Click here for information on downloading the Virtual Meeting App P30-207a11/30/20201:00 PM to 2:00 PM Presidential Address Asma Hilali,
- [JIQSA Vol.4 (2019)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-vol-4-2019/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.4 2019 (Lockwood Press) edited by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford University). Volume four is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on members.iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by signing up for membership HERE. Institutions wishing to subscribe for print
- [VIDEOS](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/videos/) - General Learn about IQSA, it's mission, and members! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-W3Asj3R8&w=560&h=315] IQSA Corona Qur’an Seminars on Zoom (#IQSAZoom) IQSA, in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame, sponsors weekly online (Zoom) seminars to bring scholars and students of the Qur’an together at a time when many are in social isolation. These seminars are part of
- [Coronavirus Health Alert (July 2020)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/corovavirus-health-alert-march-2020/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, Given the continued risk and danger due to the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), the Boston Annual Meeting 2020, originally scheduled November 22-25, has been cancelled and moved online. The meeting will be 100% virtual and hosted by our affiliate, the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). While an online meeting cannot fully replace
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in a new virtual format. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE. To become an IQSA member click HERE. For more information about the transition to a virtual program, please
- [Program Book AM 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-am-2019/) - View the 2019 IQSA Program Book (San Diego – November 22-25, 2019)
- [JIQSA Vol.3 (2018)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-vol-3-2019/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.3 2018 (Lockwood Press) edited by Nicolai Sinai (Oxford University). Volume three is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on members.iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by signing up for membership HERE. Institutions wishing to subscribe for print and/or
- [Program Book IM 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-im-2019/) - View the Tangier Program Online
- [Conference Schedule](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-4/) - Full SBL/AAR Conference Schedule available on SBL’s site Conference Schedule: IQSA Events 2019 P22-101a Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus (IQSA) / The Qur’an: Surah Studies (IQSA) Joint Session With: Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus (IQSA), The Qur’an: Surah Studies (IQSA) 11/22/2019 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Room: 23B (Upper Level
- [JIQSA Vol.2 (2017)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-vo-2-2017/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.2 2017 (Lockwood Press) edited by Vanessa De Gifis (Wayne State University) and Michael Pregill. Volume two is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on members.iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by signing up
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2019/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in San Diego, California from November 22-25, 2019. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE. Reserve your spot before rates increase! To become an IQSA member click HERE. We hope you’ll join us
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2019/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California from November 22–25, 2019. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 6, 2019 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links
- [Professional Conduct Policy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/professional-conduct-policy/) - IQSA Professional Conduct Policy Adopted December 21, 2018 Members of the International Qur’anic Studies Association constitute a global network of scholars and educators committed to advancing academic study of the Qurʾan, its context, its relationship to other scriptural traditions, and its literary and cultural influence. One of IQSA’s core tenets is a “mutual understanding through
- [Program Book AM 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-am-2018/) - View the 2018 IQSA Program Book (Denver – November 16-19, 2018)
- [INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/international-meeting-2019/) - International Qur’an Conference Tangier Global Forum University of New England Tangier, Morocco 25-26 July, 2019 The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its third biennial conference from July 25-26, 2019, hosted by the Tangier Global Forum of the University of New England, Tangier, Morocco. The main theme of the conference is Reading
- [Conference Schedule](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-3/) - Full SBL/AAR Conference Schedule available on SBL's site Conference Schedule: IQSA Events 2018 P16-301a The Qur'an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism 11/16/2018 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM Room: 709 (Street Level) - Convention Center (CC) Theme: Manuscripts and Commentaries: Access and Interpretation Alba Fedeli, Universität Hamburg, Presiding Manal Najjar, University of Tabuk The Quranic Orthography: A Pragmatic–Sociolinguistic
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2018/) - Registration is NOW OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018. You can save on the forthcoming registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member HERE! Reserve your spot before rates increase on May 24th! To become an IQSA member click HERE. We hope
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2018/) - Call for Papers Now CLOSED The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 16-19, 2018. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 7, 2018 (note: SBL membership is NOT required for proposal submission). Submission links can
- [Program Book AM 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-am-2017/) - View the 2017 Annual Meeting PROGRAM BOOK (Boston – November 17-20, 2017)
- [Conference Schedule](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-2/) - Full SBL/AAR Conference Schedule available on SBL's site Conference Schedule: IQSA Events The Qur'an and the Biblical Tradition 11/17/2017 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Beacon A (Third Level) - Sheraton Boston Hotel (SB) Holger Zellentin, University of Nottingham, Presiding Devin Stewart, Emory University Abraham’s Lies and Verbal Ambiguity in the Qur’an (30 min) Nicolai Sinai,
- [Program Book IM 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/program-book-im-2017/) - View the 2017 International Meeting Program Book (Tunisia - July 4-6, 2017)
- [How to Join IQSA: Step by Step Instructions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/how-to-join-iqsa-step-by-step-instructions/) - You've decided to join the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA), the first learned society dedicated to the critical investigation of the Qur'an! Follow these step by step instructions referring to the screenshots to register as a member. If you encounter problems, please email us at contactus@iqsaweb.org. Step 1: Open a broswer and go to IQSA's
- [2017 International Meeting Participants](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/2017-international-meeting-participants/) - INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2017 Co-hosted by Beit al Hikma and the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) Carthage, Tunisia. * الدراسات القرآنية: المناهج، السياقات والتأويلات Quranic Studies: Methods, Contexts and Interpretations Les études coraniques : méthodes, contextes et interprétations * July, 4-6 2017 This international meeting is convened by Pr. Abdelmajid Charfi and Pr. Mokdad Arfa (for Beit
- [IM Conference Schedule 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule-2017/) - INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2017 Co-hosted by Bayt al Hikma and the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) Carthage, Tunisia. * الدراسات القرآنية: المناهج، السياقات والتأويلات Quranic Studies: Methods, Contexts and Interpretations Les études coraniques : méthodes, contextes et interprétations * July, 4-6 2017 This international meeting is convened by Pr. Abdelmajid Charfi and Pr. Mokdad Arfa (for Beit
- [JIQSA Vol.1 (2016)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-vol-1-2016/) - IQSA is proud to announce the official release of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association V.1 2016 (Lockwood Press) edited by Vanessa De Gifis (Wayne State University) and Michael Pregill (Boston University). Volume one is available to IQSA members for FREE online via the member login on iqsaweb.org. Non-members can receive access by
- [دعوة للنشر في مجلة الجمعية الدولية للدراسات القرآنية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-call-for-papers-arabic/) - مجلة الجمعية الدولية للدراسات القرآنية مجلة دورية محكمة تُعنى بالدراسات المعرفية المتعلقة بالقرآن. أهداف المجلة: -نشر دراسات تتسم بدرجة عالية من المهنية حول القرآن وسياقه التاريخي وعلاقته بالتقاليد النصية الدينية الأخرى وتلقياته الثقافية والمادية والأدبية. -العناية بالدراسات القرآنية كحقل متطور مع مراعاة خصوصيته وهويته وإدراك مدى صلته بدراسة الإنجيل والمدونة الإسلامية بما فيها التفسير. -العمل
- [Annual Meeting 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2017/) - Registration is STILL OPEN for the IQSA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts from November 17-20, 2017. You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member! The membership fees for IQSA are $25, $50, and $75 depending on the level. To become an IQSA
- [Statement on January 27 US Executive Order “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/policies/stb/) - The Board of Directors of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) offers this statement in response to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order banning the entry of citizens from various Muslim-majority nations, including permanent residents of the United States: IQSA is an academic society whose mission is explicitly to build “a bridge between different global
- [Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2017/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2017/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 17-20, 2017. Paper proposals should be submitted through SBL’s automated online submission system via the affiliate form by March 7, 2017 (note: SBL membership is NOT required for proposal submission). Please find the submission links listed next to
- [ANDREW RIPPIN BEST PAPER PRIZE](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publications-2/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize/) - Andrew Rippin was the inaugural president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (2014). He is remembered as “an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration to many members of the IQSA community.” In honor of Andrew Rippin, the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper delivered at the 2021
- [IQSA MEMBERSHIP](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iqsa-membership/) - IQSA Membership for 2021 is now open! Individual Membership consists of six categories: (1) Student, Contingent Faculty, Global South or Income Below $30,000 $35 (2) Assistant Professor, Junior or Retired Faculty $75 (3) Associate Professor or Midrange Faculty $100 (4) Full Professor, Senior Faculty or Professional Income $100,000+ $125 (5) Lifetime Member $2,000 (one-time installment) (6) Institutional Member
- [Program Book AM 2016](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/pbam-2016/) - View the 2016 Annual Meeting PROGRAM BOOK (San Antonio – November 18-21, 2016)
- [International Meeting 2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/im2017/) - International Qur’an Conference Académie Tunisienne des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts Département des Sciences islamiques & The International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA) Qurʾanic Studies : Methods, Contexts and Interpretations Beit al-Hikma, Carthage, 4-6 July 2017 The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will hold its second biennial International Qurʾan Conference in collaboration with Beit al-Hikma (The
- [درباره انجمن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/درباره-انجمن/) - :اولین انجمن علمی بین المللی در حوزه قرآن پژوهی به منظور تحقق اهداف و برنامه های ذیل تشکیل شده است برگزاری نشست های علمی دوره­ای برای قرآن پژوهان ؛ - انجام پژوهش های پیشرفته و آکادمیک با تکیه بر نوآوری و دقت علمی؛ - ایجاد پل ارتباطی میان پژوهشگران و ایده پردازان مطالعات
- [IQSA Studies in the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/jiqsa-studies-in-the-quran/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association Monograph Series As well as its Journal (JIQSA) and the online Review of Qur'anic Research, the association also has a publishing program devoted to books concerned with the study of the Qurʾan: IQSA Studies in the Qurʾan (ISIQ). In this connection, the Editorial Committee seeks proposals and suggestions for works to be included in
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2016](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/annual-meeting-2016/) - Registration is now open for the Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in San Antonio, Texas, November 18-21, 2016. You can save on the registration fee by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member! Register through the SBL website HERE. The membership fees for IQSA are $25, $50, and
- [IQSA MEMBERSHIP](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/iqsa-membership/) - IQSA Membership for 2022 is open! Membership consists of six categories: (1) Student, Contingent Faculty, Global South or Income Below $30,000 $35 (2) Assistant Professor, Junior or Retired Faculty $75 (3) Associate Professor or Midrange Faculty $100 (4) Full Professor, Senior Faculty or Professional Income $100,000+ $125 (5) Lifetime Member $2,000 (one time installment) (6) Institutional Membership $400
- [Program Book AM 2015](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/pbam-2015/) - View the 2015 Annual Meeting PROGRAM BOOK (Atlanta – November 20-23, 2015)
- [Conference Schedule 2015](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/conference-schedule/) - International Qur’an Conference Co-hosted by International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) and State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. August 4-6, 2015 Date and time Sessions Room Day 1: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 08:00-09:00 Welcome Addresses Recitation of Qur’anic Verses (5 minutes) Sahiron Syamsuddin, presiding (5 minutes) Akh. Minhaji, Rector of UIN (10 minutes)
- [Dining & Attractions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/dining-attractions/) - International Qur’an Conference Co-hosted by International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) and State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. August 4-6, 2015 AREA DINING The UIN Sunan Kalijaga offers a wide variety of dining options. Yogyakarta is one of famous tourism destination in Java, Indonesia. Besides storing wealth of cultural and natural attractions, you can
- [Accommodations & Directions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/accommodations-directions/) - International Qur’an Conference Co-hosted by International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) and State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. August 4-6, 2015 ACCOMMODATIONS Hotel lodging There are several hotels within a mile or two from the UIN campus for $26-100 per night. 1. Eastparc Hotel Address: Jalan Laksda Adisucipto Km. 6,5 Seturan, Yogyakarta, 55281 Distance:
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- [--------------- Welcome to IQSA ---------------](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/iia/) - | MEMBER LOGIN | JOIN US | BLOG | DISCUSSION GROUP | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | | DONATE | The International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA) is the first learned society dedicated to the study of the Qur'an. We hold conferences around the world and publish cutting-edge research and scholarship. The IQSA community and its partners include scholars, students, publishers, and members of the public. Join Us
- [REVIEW OF QUR'ANIC RESEARCH](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publications-2/rqr/) - Welcome to the Review of Qur'anic Research (RQR), an online companion to the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA). IQSA is committed to the advancement and dissemination of high quality scholarship on the Qur'an and to the facilitation of deeper understandings of the Qur'an through scholarly collaboration. RQR is an online resource that features reviews of cutting-edge
- [ANNUAL MEETING 2015](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/am2015/) - Registration is now open for the Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. You can save by joining IQSA and registering for the Annual Meetings as an Affiliate Member! Register through the SBL website HERE. We hope you’ll join us and meet us in Atlanta! The Call for Papers is now closed. The full
- [Program Book AM 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/pbam-2014/) - View the 2014 Annual Meeting PROGRAM BOOK (San Diego – November 21-24, 2014)
- [Bylaws of International Qur'anic Studies Association](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/policies/bylaws/) - BYLAWS OF INTERNATIONAL QUR’ANIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION Last Amended 11/17/2017 ARTICLE I Name The name of the corporation shall be International Qur’anic Studies Association (hereinafter referred to as the “Association”). ARTICLE II Corporate Purpose The purpose for which the Association is organized and operated is exclusively charitable and educational, as defined in Section 501(c)(3)
- [INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2015](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/im2015/) - International Qur’an Conference Co-hosted by International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) and State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. August 4-6, 2015 “RECENT TRENDS IN QUR’ANIC STUDIES” SCHEDULE | ACCOMMODATIONS & DIRECTIONS | DINING & ATTRACTIONS In collaboration with the State Islamic University (UIN Sunan Kalijaga), in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA) will be hosting
- [Publications and Research Committee](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/people/standing-committess/prc/) - Gabriel Said Reynolds, Chair David Powers, Monographs Director Shari Lowin, RQR Editor Nicolai Sinai, JIQSA Editor Vanessa De Gifis Saqib Hussain, Copy Editor Amir Hussain Munther Younes Carol Bakhos Reuven Firestone, Ex Officio (Former Chair) John Kutsko (Ex Officio) Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) Nicolai Sinai, Editor Issam Eido, Associate Editor of Arabic Publications Saqib
- [International Programming Committee](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/people/standing-committess/ipc/) - Mun'im Sirry, Chair Majid Daneshgar, 2019 IM Tangier Director Mehdi Azaiez, 2017 IM Tunisia Director Daniel Madigan Abdullah Saeed Nayla Tabbara
- [Programming Committee](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/people/standing-committess/pc/) - Andrew O'Connor, St. Norbert College Asma Hilali, University of Lille Thomas Hoffman, University of Copenhagen Cecilia Palombo, Leiden University Michael Pregill, University of California Los Angelos Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame, Ex-Officio Program Units and Chairs Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus Chairs: Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau and Mohsen Goudarzi The Qur’an:
- [Nominating Committee](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/people/standing-committess/nc/) - Alba Fedeli, University of Hamburg, Chair Karen Bauer, The Institute of Ismaili Studies Stephen Burge, The Institute of Ismaili Studies Nora K. Schmid, University of Oxford Devin Stewart, Emory University
- [Standing Committees](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/people/standing-committess/) - There are 4 Standing Committees: Nominating Committee Programming Committee International Programming Committee Publications and Research Committee
- [Executive Office](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/membership/people/executive-office/) - Hythem Sidky, Executive Director Anne Marie McLean, Executive Assistant Lien Iffah Naf'atu Fina, Regional Coordinator for Indonesia Saqib Hussain, Copy Editor Emran El-Badawi, Advisor
- [Board of Directors](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/board-of-directors-2/) - Fred Donner, University of Chicago, President Mehdi Azaiez, University of Metz Karen Bauer, Institute of Ismaili Studies Shari Lowin, Stonehill College Johanna Pink, University of Freiburg Sarra Tlili, University of Florida Holger Zellentin, University of Tübingen, Chair Suleman Dost, Brandeis University, Secretary
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- [ANNUAL MEETING 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/am2014/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association will host its 2014 annual meeting November 21–24, beginning one day before the SBL/AAR conference in San Diego, California. The call for papers is now closed. The full schedule for the San Diego meeting is now available as PDF HERE or BELOW. (Visitors should will have access to the San Diego program book in
- [Program Book AM 2013](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/meetings-2/pbam2013/) - View the 2013 Annual Meeting PROGRAM BOOK (Baltimore - November 22-24, 2013)
- [Mission Statement](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/about/mission/) - International Qurʾanic Studies Association Mission Statement Strategic Vision Statement Core Values Mission Statement: Foster Qur’anic Scholarship Strategic Vision Statement: The International Qurʾanic Studies Association is the first learned society devoted to the study of the Qur’an from a variety of academic disciplines. The Association was founded to meet the following needs: Regular meetings for
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## Team

- [Shari Lowin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/shari-lowin/) - Shari L. Lowin is Professor of Islamic and Jewish Studies in the Religious Studies Department of Stonehill College. Her research centers on the interplay between Islamic and Jewish texts in the early and early medieval Islamic periods, focusing mainly on exegetical narratives. She is the author of The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic
- [Saqib Hussain](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/saqib-hussain/) - Secretary | Saqib Hussain is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the Associate Editor of IQSA's flagship Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association. His research focuses on Qur’anic studies and Islamic thought, with particular attention to themes of prophecy, interpretation, and ethics in the Qur’an. He has published in
- [Shawkat Toorawa](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/suleyman-dost/) - Shawkat M. Toorawa is the Brand Blanshard Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His scholarly interests include: classical and medieval Arabic literature, especially the literary and writerly culture of Abbasid Baghdad; the Qur’an, in particular hapaxes, rhyme-words, and translation; the Waqwaq Tree and islands; Indian Ocean
- [Marijn van Putten](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/marijn-putten/) - Chair | Marijn van Putten is assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on the linguistics, transmission and history of the Quranic text and the Quranic reading traditions. Besides this, he also researches the linguistic history of Arabic and Berber. He is
- [Anne Marie McLean](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/anne-marie-mclean/) - Executive Assistant contactus@iqsaweb.org | Anne Marie McLean is the Executive Assistant for the International Qur’anic Studies Association. She holds a Master of Theological Studies (Emory University) and Master of Library and Information Studies (University of Alabama). She works professionally as a Reference, Engagement, and Learning Librarian at the University of the Cumberlands.
- [Johanna Pink](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/johanna-pink/) - President | Johanna Pink is professor of Islamic Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. She taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Tuebingen. Her main fields of interest are the transregional history of tafsir in the modern period and Qur’an translations with a particular focus on transregional dynamics. She is the Principal Investigator
- [Lien Iffah Naf'atu Fina](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/lien-iffah-nafatu-fina/) - Regional Coordinator for Indonesia | Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina is a lecturer at the Department of Qur’anic Studies, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She obtained a Master’s degree from the Hartford Seminary, where she wrote a thesis on al-Baqillani’s manuscript on miracles and magic.
- [Nora Schmid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/nora-schmid/) - Nora K. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen (SFB 1391). She has studied Arabic and French languages and literatures at Freie Universität Berlin and at the INALCO in Paris. She has held research positions in the Corpus Coranicum project (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2007-2012), in the SFB 980 (Freie
- [Karen Bauer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/karen-bauer/) - https://www.iis.ac.uk/people/dr-karen-bauer Karen Bauer (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2008) is a Research Associate in the Qur’anic Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, where she researches the Qur’an and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir). She has published widely on tafsir and on gender in Islamic thought and has recently begun a project on emotion in the Qur’an. Her
- [Nevin Reda](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/nevin-reda/) - Nevin Reda is an Associate Professor of Muslim Studies at Emmanuel College, Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Her research spans Qurʾanic studies, Islamic ethical-legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), and interreligious pedagogy. With a primary focus on Qurʾanic studies, Reda integrates perspectives from literary theory, Islamic spiritual care, and Biblical Hebrew, in which she holds
- [Fred M. Donner](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/fred-m-donner/) - President https://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/donner Fred M. Donner is Professor of Near Eastern History in the Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His main field of research is the origins of Islam and early Islamic History. He is the author of Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of
- [Johanne Christiansen](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/johanne-christiansen/) - Johanne Louise Christiansen, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark. Her research focuses on the application of theoretical perspectives from other research fields, such as the study of religions, to the Qur’an. Among Christiansen’s recent work are the article “God Loves not the Wrongdoers (zalimun): Formulaic
- [Mohsen Goudarzi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/mohsen-goudarzi/) - Mohsen Goudarzi joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in July 2021, after previously teaching at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. A specialist in Qur'anic Studies, his work is reshaping foundational perspectives in the field. Goudarzi’s scholarship explores the intellectual and social dimensions of Islam's early development, with a particular focus on the Qur'an's
- [Alba Fedeli](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/alba-fedeli/) - Alba Fedeli is a Research Associate at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, working on the transmission of early qurʾanic manuscripts. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, UK, after studying in Italy with Sergio Noja Noseda. Fedeli stirred up media frenzy after the BBC announcement that the “Birmingham Qurʾan” manuscript dates to Muhammad’s lifetime.
- [Hythem Sidky](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/hythem-sidky/) - Executive Director hsidky@iqsaweb.org | Hythem Sidky is the Executive Director of the International Qur’anic Studies Association. His research combines expertise in the sciences with a specialization in qur’anic manuscripts and reading traditions. He holds an M.S. in applied mathematics and Ph.D. in biomolecular engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Hythem’s dual background allows him
- [Emran El-Badawi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/emran-el-badawi/) - Advisor | Dr. Emran El-Badawi is program director and associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Houston. He founded the Arab Studies program at UH and he has designed, implemented and assessed degree programs in the Humanities and Sciences. These include degrees in Arab-Middle East Studies, Religious Studies and interdisciplinary studies in
- [Sean Anthony](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/sean-anthony/) - JIQSA Editor | Sean Anthony is the Executive Editor of the Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA). He is a historian of early Islamic history and Arabic literature. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2009, Anthony taught at the University of Oregon (Eugene) and the Ohio State University, where
- [Gabriel Said Reynolds](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/gabriel-said-reynolds/) - Publications & Research Committee Chair, https://theology.nd.edu/people/gabriel-reynolds/ Gabriel Said Reynolds did his doctoral work at Yale University in Islamic Studies. Currently he researches the Qur’ān and Muslim/Christian relations and is the Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame. He is the author of The Qur an and the
- [Devin Stewart](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/devin-stewart/) - Board Member http://mesas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/stewart.html Dr. Stewart received a B.A. magna cum laude in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1984, completed the CASA program in Arabic at the American University in Cairo in 1985, and earned a Ph.D. with distinction in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has been
- [Sarra Tlili](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/sarra-tlili/) - Board Member https://languages.ufl.edu/people/faculty-alpha/sarra-tlili/ Dr. Tlili is a scholar of Arab and Islamic studies. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Her primary research interests are stylistics of the Qur’an, animals in Islam and Arabic literature. Among the courses she has taught are The Qur’an as Literature, Arab Woman,
- [Mehdi Azaiez](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/mehdi-azaiez/) - Board Member https://www.mehdi-azaiez.org/?lang=en Mehdi Azaiez is Assistant Professor of Islamic Theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Aix-enProvence. His main fields of research are Qur’anic Studies and early Islam. During 2012–2013, he was an instructor in Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame and co-director, along with
- [Asma Hilali](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/asma-hilali/) - Board Member https://pro.univ-lille.fr/asma-helali/ Asma Hilali is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London and an Associate Professor in Islamic Stuides at the University of Lille. She gained her PhD from l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. She has worked in various research centres in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Her main
- [Blog Coordinator](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/blog-coordinator/) - Blog Coordinator
- [Andrew O'Connor](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/andrew-oconnor/) - Programming Committee Chair https://www.snc.edu/academics/faculty/andrew.oconnor.html Andrew J. O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin (USA). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, a M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In the 2017–18 academic year, he
- [Nora K. Schmid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team/nora-k-schmid/) - Nominating Committee https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/nora-schmid Nora K. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Qurʾanic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm” (QuCIP) at the University of Oxford. She holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2018). Her research interests include the Qurʾan as a late antique text, Arabic asceticism, early Islamic poetry, and

## Resources

- [Are these Nothing but Sorcerers? – A linguistic analysis of Q Ṭā-Hā 20:63 using intra-Qurʾānic parallels](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/are-these-nothing-but-sorcerers-a-linguistic-analysis-of-q-ṭa-ha-2063-using-intra-qurʾanic-parallels/) - The seemingly ungrammatical wording of Q Ṭā-Hā 20:63 ʾinna hādhāni la-sāḥirāni has been cause for much debate, both in traditional Muslim sources as well as in modern discussion. This paper sets out to reevaluate the grammar of the various reading that are present by comparing them not against the normative grammar as it is established by the
- [Mubīn and Its Cognates in the Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/mubin-and-its-cognates-in-the-qurʾan/) - This study investigates the meaning of the term mubīn and its cognates in the Qurʾān. It examines the debate over whether mubīn has the basic meaning of “clear” or “clarifying,” weighing the various arguments that have been made for the two sides. Consideration of the requirements of qurʾānic end-rhyme and the distribution of the adjectives bayyin (masc.) and bayyinah (fem.) “clear” suggest that mubīn means
- [The Shifting Ontology of the Qurʾān in Ḥanafism: Debates on Reciting the Qurʾān in Persian](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-shifting-ontology-of-the-qurʾan-in-ḥanafism-debates-on-reciting-the-qurʾan-in-persian/) - A review of the works of the most authoritative Ḥanafī theologians and jurists shows that the later madhhab taught that its eponym, Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 150/767), held the Qurʾān to be the uncreated and eternal speech of God. According to this understanding, he and his followers believed the linguistic composition of the Qurʾān in Arabic to be a
- [The Qurʾan and the putative pre-Islamic practice of female infanticide](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-qurʾan-and-the-putative-pre-islamic-practice-of-female-infanticide/) - In this article, I take issue with one alleged characteristic of pre-Islamic Arabia: namely, the notion that the Arabians frequently, and disturbingly, practiced female infanticide by burying their daughters alive. This is what the Islamic-era religious scholars inferred on the basis of two Quranic passages (al-Naḥl 16:57–59 and al-Takwīr 81:8–9). However, I will argue that
- [Worship (dīn), Monotheism (islām), and the Qurʾān’s Cultic Decalogue](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/worship-din-monotheism-islam-and-the-qurʾans-cultic-decalogue/) - The first part of this study presents evidence from the Qurʾān and early Arabic writings to argue that dīn in the Qurʾān often means “worship” instead of “religion” and that islām means exclusive worship of the One God rather than “submission” to Him. Specifically, I show that the noun dīn and the verb dāna frequently convey the ideas of “service” and “servitude” in
- [The Meaning of ibtahala in the Qurʾān: A Reassessment](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-meaning-of-ibtahala-in-the-qurʾan-a-reassessment/) - The word nabtahil, which appears only once in the Qur’an in Q 3:61, has become the basis of a fairly well-known practice in pre-modern and modern Islam called mubāhala, “mutual cursing” due to the verse’s alleged connection to a cursing duel between Muhammad and Christians from Najran. Some exegetes, however, took it to mean “to pray humbly/sincerely”. This
- [Obituary: Mahmoud Ayoub (1935–2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/obituary-mahmoud-ayoub-1935-2021/) - Words cannot grasp the luminous soul and bountiful contributions of Professor Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, who passed away in Montreal, Canada on October 31, 2021. He was a master with humble origins, hailing from the rural mountain coun-tryside of southern Lebanon, where he was born June 1, 1935. Ayoub’s schooling inculcated within him an appreciation for
- [Marijn van Putten. Quranic Arabic: From its Hijazi Origins to its Classical Reading Traditions. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiii + 351. Hardcover USD $149.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-50625-1](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/quranic-arabic-from-its-hijazi-origins-to-its-classical-reading-traditions-leiden-brill-2022-pp-xiii-351-hardcover-usd-149-00-isbn-978-90-04-50625-1/) - The Qurʾān has been the topic of scholarly discussion and debate since the begin-ning of the Islamic period and until today. Critical scholarship on the Qurʾān, as with the critical study of the Bible, began in earnest in the nineteenth century CE, and continues to be active and lively. In recent decades, a particularly vigorous
- [The Two Sons of Adam: Rabbinic Resonances and Scriptural Virtuosity in Surah al-Maidah](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-two-sons-of-adam-rabbinic-resonances-and-scriptural-virtuosity-in-surah-al-maidah/)
- [Isma'il, Dhu 'l-Kifl, and Idris: A Reading of the Qur'anic Text and Muslim Exegesis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/ismail-dhu-l-kifl-and-idris-a-reading-of-the-quranic-text-and-muslim-exegesis/)
- [The Narratives of "the Companions of the Cave"](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-narratives-of-the-companions-of-the-cave/)
- [The Pre-Islamic Divine Name 'sy and the Background of the Qur'anic Jesus](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-pre-islamic-divine-name-sy-and-the-background-of-the-quranic-jesus/)
- [Dissimilation of ē to ā in the Qur'anic Consonantal Text](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/dissimilation-of-e-to-a-in-the-quranic-consonantal-text/)
- [Response to Devin Stewart’s 2019 IQSA Presidential Adress](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/response-to-devin-stewarts-2019-iqsa-presidential-adress/)
- [Noah’s Boat and Other Missed Opportunities (2019 IQSA Presidential Adress)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/noahs-boat-and-other-missed-opportunities-2019-iqsa-presidential-adress/)
- [Obituary: Josef van Ess (1934–2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/obituary-josef-van-ess-1934-2021/)
- [Obituary: Uri Rubin (1944–2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/obituary-uri-rubin-1944-2021/)
- [Obituary: Alan Jones (1933–2021)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/obituary-alan-jones-1933-2021/)
- [Back Matter ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/back-matter/)
- [Cover, Copyright, Table of Contents ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/cover-copyright-table-of-contents/)
- [Obituary: Fred Leemhuis (1942–2021) ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/obituary-fred-leemhuis-1942-2021/) - In late November 2021, Prof. Frederik Leemhuis, known to many as Fred, passed away after a short illness. Leemhuis was a Dutch Arabist and Qurʾān scholar who studied and worked at the University of Groningen, from 1965 to 2002 in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and from 2003 to 2009
- [The Variant Readings in Islamic Law ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-variant-readings-in-islamic-law/) - The accepted variant readings (qirāʾāt) of the Qurʾān have often been characterized as those that may be recited in the course of the ritual prayer. However, it appears on examination that premodern juridical handbooks laying out the rules governing the ritual prayer rarely discuss textual variants. When they do, it is almost always to rule
- [The Inner-Qurʾānic Development of the Images of Women in Paradise: From the Ḥūr ʿĪn to Believing Women ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-inner-qurʾanic-development-of-the-images-of-women-in-paradise-from-the-ḥur-ʿin-to-believing-women/) - This article explores the inner-qurʾānic development of the images of women in the qurʾānic Paradise and explains the possible reasons for this development via a consideration of qurʾānic images of women more broadly. Women appear in the qurʾānic Paradise as “houris” (ḥūr ʿīn), “spouses” (azwāj), “spouses who acted righteously” (wa-man ṣalaḥa min … azwājihim), “pure
- [Bloody Wrath and Healing Touches: Joseph and His Brothers in Early Imāmī Shīʿī Tafsīr ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/bloody-wrath-and-healing-touches-joseph-and-his-brothers-in-early-imami-shiʿi-tafsir/) - The meetings between Joseph and his brothers in Egypt are often portrayed in Qurʾān commentaries as dramatic occurrences. A few early Imāmī-Shīʿī commentaries mention a peculiar account that describes the heated clash between the brothers and Joseph following Joseph’s accusation that one of them stole from him. A comparative examination shows that a second version
- [Iltifāt and Narrative Voice in the Qurʾān: Grammatical Shifts and Nested Dialogue in Sūrahs 19, 20, and 18](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/iltifat-and-narrative-voice-in-the-qurʾan-grammatical-shifts-and-nested-dialogue-in-surahs-19-20-and-18/) - This article analyzes the Qurʾān’s use of an Arabic rhetorical device called iltifāt, the shift of person within a text. It addresses the way iltifāt has been interpreted by medieval Muslim exegetes and the implications of its use for the structure and cosmology of the Qurʾān. By analyzing the use of iltifāt in the Qurʾān,
- [Review of Joachim Jakob, Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-joachim-jakob-syrisches-christentum-und-fruher-islam/) - Joachim Jakob’s book Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam: Theologische Reaktionen in syrisch-sprachigen Texten vom 7. bis 9. Jahrhundert (in English: Syriac Christianity and Early Islam: Theological Reactions in Syriac Written Texts from the Seventh to the Ninth Century) analyzes a wide range of Syriac sources in exploring Christian theological responses to early Islam. Jakob focuses
- [Review of Sarah R. Bin Tyeer, The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-sarah-r-bin-tyeer-the-quran-and-the-aesthetics-of-premodern-arabic-prose/) - I have attended several presentations by Islamic art historians in which they purported to present an Islamic theory of aesthetics that drew on the Qurʾān. These talks were characterized by sweeping generalizations about the qurʾānic text, an appalling absence of concrete examples, and great leaps from the text to rather vague aesthetic principles.
- [Review of Martin Whittingham, A History of Muslim Views of the Bible](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-martin-whittingham-a-history-of-muslim-views-of-the-bible/) - In this compact book, Martin Whittingham presents the historical beginnings of Muslim attitudes to the Bible. Billed as the first of two volumes, this installment takes us from the Qurʾān and its position on the scriptures of the “People of the Book” to the turn of the fifth century AH / eleventh century CE, i.e.,
- [Review of W. Richard Oakes Jr., The Cross of Christ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-w-richard-oakes-jr-the-cross-of-christ/) - In the middle of his translation of several traditions from al-Ṭabarī’s (d. 310/923) interpretation of Q al-Nisāʾ 4:157, Richard Oakes presents a story that would likely intrigue many readers well familiar with the Gospel passion accounts but with only the most general Islamic explanation of how Jesus did not die on the cross (190–191). As
- [Review of Zishan Ghaffar, Der Koran in seinem religions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-zishan-ghaffar-der-koran-in-seinem-religions/) - The Arab Muslim conquest of Palestine and Jerusalem from 636 to 640 CE marked the rise of the Islamic empires at the expense of Byzantium. Yet Byzantine Palestine was captured once before. As part of the war between the Byzantine and the Sasanian Empires, the troops of Khosrow II conquered various Palestinian cities, allegedly with
- [Review of Gabriel Said Reynolds, Allah: God in the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-gabriel-said-reynolds-allah-god-in-the-quran/) - Gabriel Said Reynolds’ most recent book, Allah: God in the Qur’an, explores Allah’s characterization in the Qurʾān through His relationship with creation. Reynolds frames his discussion around the dichotomy of divine mercy and justice (or vengeance) in the Qurʾān; but the book is more than an analysis of the Qur’ān’s presentation of these characteristics. Rather,
- [Review of Michael Pregill, The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-michael-pregill-the-golden-calf-between-bible-and-quran/) - Michael Pregill’s The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur’an sets out, via a thick reading of a single pivotal and representative narrative in the story of the Calf (or “Golden Calf” in common Jewish and Christian discourse), to situate the Qur’an within the larger religious and literary context of the Late Antique world. That it
- [Review of Carlos Segovia, The Quranic Jesus](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-carlos-segovia-the-quranic-jesus/) - The Quranic Noah (2015), this book is Carlos A. Segovia’s most recent contribution to the literature on the Qurʾān and its relationship to late antique Judaism and Christianity. The book also belongs to the same series, which aims to bring Judaism, Christianity, and Islam into interdisciplinary conversations about the reception and mediation of ideas within
- [Review of Jefrey Einboden, The Qurʾān and Kerygma](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-jefrey-einboden-the-qurʾan-and-kerygma/) - An enduring interest in scholarship on the Qurʾān is the text’s engagement with biblical and post-biblical traditions. How does the Qurʾān develop or contest biblical characters, motifs, imagery, and diction? How should scholars characterize the relationship between the Bible and the Qurʾān, and precisely what texts or traditions does the Qurʾān engage with in particular?
- [Review of Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-sean-anthony-muhammad-and-the-empires-of-faith/) - What do we know about Muḥammad? How do we know what we know and how certain can we be of that knowledge? These are questions that have been asked by scholars many times and answered in many different ways. In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam, Sean W.
- [Review of Daniel Beck, Evolution of the Early Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-daniel-beck-evolution-of-the-early-quran/) - Recent scholarship, especially following the contributions of Angelica Neuwirth and Nicolai Sinai, has increasingly stressed that the Qurʾān is better understood through an examination of the Late Antique period and the multiple religious traditions that were active in the Hijaz and the shām region, which included Christian, Jewish, and Manichean traditions. In Evolution of the
- [Review of Stephen Shoemaker, The Apocalypse of Empire](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-stephen-shoemaker-the-apocalypse-of-empire/) - Stephen Shoemaker’s The Apocalypse of Empire builds upon the methodology, and some of the most provocative conclusions, of the author’s earlier monograph The Death of a Prophet.[1] In that book, Shoemaker subjects the extant evidence concerning Muḥammad’s death to close scrutiny, concluding that the Prophet died after the invasion of Palestine commenced in 634 CE
- [Review of Nicolai Sinai, Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-nicolai-sinai-rain-giver-bone-breaker-score-settler/) - Nicolai Sinai’s small book, or essay, is a very welcome contribution to the study of the deity Allāh and the religious map of Arabia on the eve of Islam based on the jāhiliyyah (pre-Islamic) poetry. The work is available as an open-access e-book. Sinai’s study is rich in methodological considerations and lucid in style. The
- [Review of El-Badawi and Paula Sanders (eds.), Communities of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-el-badawi-and-paula-sanders-eds-communities-of-the-quran/) - When I first saw the title of the book under review here, Communities of the Qur’an, I was excited. In the field of qurʾānic studies, there has been a decades-long (if not longer) focus on the qurʾānic text itself, on its origins and history, its linguistic and literary qualities, but rather much silence about the
- [Review of Mark Durie, The Qur'an and Its Biblical Reflexes](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-mark-durie-the-quran-and-its-biblical-reflexes/) - Mark Durie’s The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes is a highly original work and a substantial contribution to the field of Qurʾānic Studies. He engages with a great deal of secondary literature, but his study is also based on extensive direct reading of the text of the Qurʾān itself, so there is nothing second-hand about
- [Review of Johanna Pink, Muslim Qurʼānic Interpretation Today](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-johanna-pink-muslim-qurʼanic-interpretation-today/) - Have you ever wondered why Ibn Kathīr’s tafsīr is so ubiquitous online, in multiple languages, and in translations of different lengths? Or, what percentage of Muslims read the Qurʾān in previous centuries, and what “reading” meant? About the proliferation of pious lectures or advice-giving programs on YouTube and the details of the people behind them?
- [Review of Holger Zellentin, The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-holger-zellentin-the-qurans-reformation-of-judaism-and-christianity/) - The title of this important collection of scholarly articles already gives away the hypothesis the editor intends the dozen, first rate studies of qurʾānic passages included in the volume to commend. Namely, the view that one might best understand the Arabic scripture’s relationship with contemporary Judaism and Christianity by recognizing, as he says, “the Qur’an’s
- [Review of Robert Gregg, Shared Stories, Rival Tellings](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-robert-gregg-shared-stories-rival-tellings/) - In this rather hefty tome, Robert Gregg sets out to share with us the myriad ways the Bible and biblical lore has been read over the centuries across multiple cultural, linguistic, and religious contexts. This book’s comparative yet innovative nature opens up new avenues for looking at this vast interpretive corpus. In particular, Gregg engages
- [Review of Richard Serrano, Qurʾān and the Lyric Imperative](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-richard-serrano-qurʾan-and-the-lyric-imperative/) - As the title suggests, Richard Serrano’s Qurʾān and the Lyric Imperative examines the Qurʾān, but the intention is not to explain the holy book of Islam. The Qurʾān, as the author puts it, “continues to defy explanation, despite the legions engaged in the vast Islamic and Orientalist intellectual industry intent on doing just that” (1).
- [Review of Asma Hilali, The Sanaa Palimpsest](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-asma-hilali-the-sanaa-palimpsest/) - The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qurʾan in the First Centuries AH by Asma Hilali aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the transmission of the Qurʾān in the early Islamic centuries, presenting a new interpretation of one of the most discussed documentary witnesses in recent years: the palimpsest of Ṣanʿāʾ. This monograph
- [Review of Khaleel Mohammed, David in the Muslim Tradition](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-khaleel-mohammed-david-in-the-muslim-tradition/) - The biblical story of the Israelite king David son of Jesse contains multi-dimensional elements regarding his achievements as a leader, a military strategist, a conqueror, a pious man of considerable intensity, a lover, and a monarchist. Coming from a modest background at a time when King Saul of Israel was in decline, David earned admiration
- [Review of Seyfeddin Kara, In Search of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Codex](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-seyfeddin-kara-in-search-of-ʿali-ibn-abi-ṭalibs-codex/) - The textual history of the Qurʾān has always engendered debates and disagreements among Muslims and non-Muslim Western scholars alike. Such textual history has been mostly reconstructed by relying on Sunni narrations which identify the first and third caliphs, Abū Bakr and ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān, as the ones who endeavoured to promote the compilation of Islam’s
- [Review of Harald Motzki, Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-harald-motzki-reconstruction-of-a-source-of-ibn-isḥaqs-life-of-the-prophet-and-early-qurʾan-exegesis/) - Harald Motzki, famous for his isnād-cum-matn method of analysing ḥadīth, provides a thorough examination of the way in which Ibn Isḥāq, the author of one of the more famous of the sīrahs (biographies) of Muḥammad, gathered his sources, particularly his use of one source named Muḥammad b. Abī Muḥammad, about whom little is known. In
- [Review of Michel Cuypers, A Qurʾānic Apocalypse](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-michel-cuypers-a-qurʾanic-apocalypse/) - That the Qurʾān as a text has apocalyptic affinities has been the focus of scholarly research for the past century. Of late, due to the work of Fred Donner and others, defining the Qurʾānic apocalypse has come into vogue.[1] Michel Cuypers’ A Qurʾānic Apocalypse: A Reading of the Thirty-Three Last Sūrahs of the Qurʾān is
- [Review Abdur Raheem Kidwai, God's Word, Mans Interpretations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-abdur-raheem-kidwai-gods-word-mans-interpretations/) - Colleagues and fellow scholars of Islam, how many times have you been asked about the best English translations of the Qurʾān and how many times have you mumbled in response something along the lines of “Arberry is good, there is Yusuf Ali, Abdel Haleem’s is more recent I guess”? Abdur Raheem Kidwai’s God’s Word, Man’s
- [Review of Francisco del Rio Sanchez, Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-francisco-del-rio-sanchez-jewish-christianity-and-the-origins-of-islam/) - While the volume under review is dedicated to the Qurʾān’s relationship to Jewish Christianity, a number of its contributions call into question the very usefulness of this category. Accordingly, the work is more than a consideration of the relationship between supposedly Jewish Christian groups such as the Ebionites, or supposedly Jewish Christian scriptures such as
- [Review of Juan Cole, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-juan-cole-muhammad-prophet-of-peace-amid-the-clash-of-empires/) - In recent years, the field of Islamic Studies has witnessed a growing trend centered on reinterpreting early Islam. The reinterpretation concerns historical episodes, events, or figures, and stands in a clear dissonance with traditional narratives depicted by classical Muslim historians. The method utilized relies primarily on attempts to reread the Qurʾān by disassociating it from
- [Review of Karim Samji, The Qur'an: A Form-Critical History](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-karim-samji-the-quran-a-form-critical-history/) - The urge to provide an inventory of the types of speech included in the Qurʾān is an old one. As Karim Samji points out, in one passage of his famous Qurʾān commentary Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923) interprets the seven “letters” (aḥruf) in which the Qurʾān was revealed
- [Review of Pier Tommasino, The Venetian Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-pier-tommasino-the-venetian-quran/) - One of the main problems in contemporary scholarship is the loss of multilingual expertise of the scholars. The centrality of English has simplified the picture, but at the same time has permitted the emergence of students who do not know any other language and of scholars and writers who can propose ideas in English with
- [Review of Kristian Petersen, Interpreting Islam in China](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-kristian-petersen-interpreting-islam-in-china/) - Some readers of the Review of Qurʾanic Research might wonder whether a book on Islam in China is worth their attention. It most definitely is, especially if their interest transcends the Qurʾānic text itself and extends to Muslims’ engagement with their sacred scripture. As the author of Interpreting Islam in China, Kristian Petersen, rightfully criticizes,
- [Review of Youssouf Sangaré, Le scellement de la prophétie en Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-youssouf-sangare-le-scellement-de-la-prophetie-en-islam/) - Le scellement de la prophétie en Islam is a learned and well-argued study of the qurʾānic hapax legomenon khātam al-nabiyyīn (seal of the prophets; Q Aḥzāb 33:40) and more generally of the notion of the cessation of prophecy in Islam. An introductory section is dedicated to key vocabulary (nabaʾ, nabī, rasūl, risālah, and the root
- [Review of Nevin Reda, The al-Baqara Crescendo](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-nevin-reda-the-al-baqara-crescendo/) - In The al-Baqara Crescendo, Nevin Reda does an exceptional job of describing the Qur’ān in the vocabulary of art, aesthetics, acoustics, chanting, song, music, the rhythms and rhymes of orally-recited poetry, poetic-like rhetorical devices, and German terminology. Her emotive vocabulary and accessible writing style lures the reader into a feeling that her approach is holistic
- [Review of Seyyed Nasr et. al, The Study Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-seyyed-nasr-et-al-the-study-quran/) - Following in the footsteps of the Harper Collins Study Bible and the Jewish Study Bible, The Study Quran is a welcome addition to the field of qurʾānic studies. In response to a proposal from the publisher, the distinguished Islamicist Seyyed Hossein Nasr agreed to serve as the Editor-in-Chief and general supervisor of the project on
- [Review of Shahab Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-shahab-ahmed-before-orthodoxy/) - This volume originally aimed at being the first of three volumes concerning the history of Islamic approaches towards the story of the satanic verses (qiṣṣat al-gharānīq); unfortunately, volumes 2 and 3 of this project could not be completed, due to the passing away of the author. According to the satanic verses story, while the prophet
- [Review of Hina Azam, Sexual Violation in Islamic Law](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-hina-azam-sexual-violation-in-islamic-law/) - Hina Azam’s study not only makes an incisive contribution to the literature on Islamic penal law, but engages with a much wider set of issues involving Muslim jurists’ conceptualization of marriage and of moral and legal personhood. While the body of the book meticulously examines fiqh texts dating from the formative period through approximately the
- [Review of George Bristow, Sharing Abraham?](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-george-bristow-sharing-abraham/) - This book is the inaugural volume of the ISRME Studies in Religion and Theology series of the Institute for the Study of Religion in the Middle East. Its author, George Bristow, is a Protestant minister who has lived and worked in Turkey since 1987, and the book is based on his 2015 dissertation at Vrije
- [Review Willi Steuhl, Koran erklӓrt](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-willi-steuhl-koran-erklӓrt/) - For those scholar-activists among us who are active on the major social media platforms, it seems as if everyone has a (strong) view on Islam/Muslims and/or lays claims of expertise of one kind or another on subjects pertaining to the Islamic tradition. In the age of increasing dominance of social media in “informing” public discourses
- [Review of Rawand Osman, Female Personalities in the Qur'an and Sunna](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-rawand-osman-female-personalities-in-the-quran-and-sunna/) - Rawand Osman’s Female Personalities in the Qur’an and Sunna is in four chapters, preceded by an introduction and followed by a conclusion. According to the author it is a comprehensive discussion of all the female personalities mentioned in the Qur’ān, as well as three role models from the women of ahl al-bayt (Muhammad’s family), focusing
- [Review of Christian Lange, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-christian-lange-paradise-and-hell-in-islamic-traditions/) - There was a time not long ago in Islamic Studies when one was hard pressed to find much about the Islamic afterlife, Paradise and Hell, or eschatology in general. Certainly when I was doing my doctoral studies (on a related theme) in the late 90’s, Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad’s The Islamic Understanding
- [Eloïse Brac de la Perrière and Monique Buresi, Le Coran de Gwalior: Polysémie d’un manuscrit à peintures](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/eloise-brac-de-la-perriere-and-monique-buresi-le-coran-de-gwalior-polysemie-dun-manuscrit-a-peintures/) - While the study of individual manuscripts in their own right is fascinating, the level of interest increases exponentially when the historical context and human stories surrounding manuscripts are added to the research. In the case of the Gwalior Qurʾān, MS AKM00281, there is a profoundly interesting context connected with the manuscript, and this context is
- [Review of Andrew Bannister, An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-andrew-bannister-an-oral-formulaic-study-of-the-quran/) - The relationship between “the oral” and “the written” is one of the most fertile and unresolved questions in the study of early Islam, and one that often remains latent even in different sets of research questions and debates—from the reliability of early historical accounts to the development of Islamic legal practices, to the study of
- [Review of S. R. Burge, The Meaning of the Word](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-s-r-burge-the-meaning-of-the-word/) - If exegesis is not the beginning point of Islamic scholarship, it was present at the beginning, and in modern times it has not ceased to be a productive discipline. The many applications and implications that commentary and interpretation have for the historical extent of Islamic thought more than justify the recent burst of edited volumes
- [Review of François Déroche, Qur'ans of the Umayyads](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-francois-deroche-qurans-of-the-umayyads/) - François Déroche’s research on the earliest Qurʾān manuscripts now spans decades. His extensive and direct observation of these material objects, noting and reflecting upon their features and comparing these with what has reached us in secondary history and traditions, have yielded an overall perspective rooted in a depth of familiarity that is virtually unparalleled today
- [Review of Andreas Görke and Johanna Pink, Tafsīr and Islamic Intellectual History](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-andreas-gorke-and-johanna-pink-tafsir-and-islamic-intellectual-history/) - What do we study when we study tafsīr? Addressing this question promises not only a clearer understanding of what tafsīr is, but also a stronger sense of the shared venture in the scholarship that surrounds it. As in many emerging fields, scholars in Tafsīr Studies are concerned to define the boundaries of their object of
- [Review of David Hollenberg, Beyond the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-david-hollenberg-beyond-the-quran/) - Beyond the Qurʾān is a discussion of taʾwīl, allegorical or symbolic interpretation of the Qurʾān, based mainly on Ismāʿīlī works from the tenth and eleventh centuries. It contains five chapters and a conclusion. Chapter 1: Competing Islands of Salvation (1–35) is an introduction to the Ismāʿīlī daʿwah (missionary organization). Chapter 2: Ismāʿīlī Taʾwīl and Daʿwa
- [Review of Suha Taj-Farouki, The Qur'an and Its Readers Worldwide](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-suha-taj-farouki-the-quran-and-its-readers-worldwide/) - The interpretation of the Qurʾān has never been an exclusively Arabic language endeavor. However, the number of Qurʾān translations and qurʾānic commentaries in languages other than Arabic increased steadily, or even explosively, throughout the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first for a number of reasons. For example, nation states promoted national languages and
- [Review of Christian Peltz,  Der Koran des Abū l-ʿAlāʾ](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-christian-peltz-der-koran-des-abu-l-ʿalaʾ/) - The present work is Christian Peltz’s lightly edited two-volume doctoral thesis, Muʿjiz Aḥmad, submitted to the University of Tübingen and published by Hartmut Bobzin and Tilman Seidensticker as volume 11 in their series, Arabische Studien. Peltz’s work is dedicated to a text unique in classical Arabic literature in many respects: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1057)
- [Review of Michael Penn, When Christians First Met Muslims](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-michael-penn-when-christians-first-met-muslims/) - It is well known today that Islam was not “born in the full light of history” as the eminent scholar of religion Ernest Renan (1823–1892) once boldly claimed. Rather, it crystallized in the course of a lengthy historical evolution, still poorly understood, that probably had its roots in western Arabia in the early years of
- [Review of Greg Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-greg-fisher-ed-arabs-and-empires-before-islam/) - Arabs and Empires before Islam is a formidable achievement in the field of pre-Islamic Arabian studies. It presents the history of Arabia from antiquity to the 630s CE, taking into account the subject’s diversity and presenting a variety of source materials. The volume will supplement or supplant the earlier go-to works by Robert Hoyland[1] and
- [Review of Jacqueline Chabbi, Les trois piliers de l’Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-jacqueline-chabbi-les-trois-piliers-de-lislam/) - In Les trois piliers de l’Islam Jacqueline Chabbi makes the case that Islam as we know it from medieval sources is not the same as Islam as it was in its original Arabian context. According to Chabbi, academic scholars and pious Muslims alike too often fail to recognize elements of Islam which were introduced in
- [Review of François Deroche et. al, Les origines du Coran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-francois-deroche-et-al-les-origines-du-coran/) - The present volume, Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origins,is an important publication in the field of Qurʾanic Studies and a worthy purchase for any university library. Not only does Les origines testify to the robust tradition of European qurʾanic scholarship, it also provides the reader with focused contributions touching on several primary subfields
- [Review of Angelika Neuwirth, Koranforschung – eine politische Philologie?](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-angelika-neuwirth-koranforschung-eine-politische-philologie/) - In this concise book, Angelika Neuwirth suggests that the study of reception of biblical materials in the Qurʾan must be analyzed by considering the multifaceted cultural and religious context in which the Qurʾan emerged over the course of the 22 years of Muḥammad’s prophetic career. She positions that the evolving text heavily interacted with its
- [Review of Keith Small, Qur'ans: Books of Divine Encounter](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-keith-small-qurans-books-of-divine-encounter/) - Following in the wake of volumes such as François Déroche’s The Abbasid Tradition: Qurʾans of the 8th to 10th Centuries (2006) about the Khalili collection in London, and Colin Baker’s Qurʾan Manuscripts: Calligraphy, Illumination, Design (2007) about the British Library’s collection of Qurʾan manuscripts, this little volume neatly encapsulates the breadth of the Bodleian Library’s
- [Review of Navid Kermani, God is Beautiful](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-navid-kermani-god-is-beautiful/) - Navid Kermani’s God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran is a unique and fascinating contribution to Qurʾanic Studies. The volume is an English translation of Gott ist schön: Das ästhetische Erleben des Koran (2007) by Munich publishing house C.H. Beck, which is in turn a revision of Kermani’s 1997 dissertation conducted at the
- [Review of Haggai Mazuz, The Religious and Spiritual Lives of the Jews of Medina](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-haggai-mazuz-the-religious-and-spiritual-lives-of-the-jews-of-medina/) - Although many of the ideas of the so-called revisionist school still meet with resistance from some quarters, their most lasting impact upon the study of the Qurʾan and the career of Muhammad has been to cast doubt on the reliability of the traditional sources for reconstructing Islamic origins. Some of the most radical aspects of
- [Review of Angelika Neuwirth, Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-angelika-neuwirth-scripture-poetry-and-the-making-of-a-community/) - The volume under review is the first thorough collection of Angelika Neuwirth’s scholarship in English, and, as such, its publication is nothing short of a momentous event in the field of Qurʾanic Studies. The fact that the book is not a monograph with an integral frame but a collection of fourteen articles that were published
- [Review of Shady Nasser, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-shady-nasser-the-transmission-of-the-variant-readings-of-the-quran/) - Shady H. Nasser’s recent volume, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān, makes an important contribution to our understanding of early Muslim scripturalism. Nasser argues that the question of verbal canonicity, of the acceptable recitations (qirāʾāt), moves from the realm of jurisprudence to that of transmitted tradition in the early period. His book
- [Review of M. Brett Wilson, Translating the Qur'an in an Age of Nationalism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-m-brett-wilson-translating-the-quran-in-an-age-of-nationalism/) - For a long time, Qurʾan translations have attracted little scholarly attention. There were a few bibliographical overviews, a small number of studies dealing with premodern manuscript translations, several papers discussing ways to produce a philologically sound and/or dogmatically acceptable translation; but there was hardly any effort to treat Qurʾan translations as an exegetical genre that
- [Review of Taiq Jaffer, Rāzī](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-taiq-jaffer-razi/) - Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1209) is one of the greats of the late classical Muslim scholarly tradition, and Tariq Jaffer’s contribution comes at a time of renewed interest in al-Rāzī’s intellectual contributions, spearheaded most prominently by Ayman Shihadeh, among others. As Jaffer demonstrates in the useful bibliographical introduction to his study, al-Rāzī’s pervasive influence on
- [Review of Abdullah Saeed, Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-first Century](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-abdullah-saeed-reading-the-quran-in-the-twenty-first-century/) - Methodological concerns about approaches to qurʾanic exegesis are not new, but while debates about specific elements and tools for interpreting the Qurʾan continue to occur, certain paradigms dictating the traditional approach to the text were established relatively early and have successfully remained dominant for centuries. Chief among these paradigms is a framework of what can
- [Review of Holger Zellentin, The Qur'an's Legal Culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-holger-zellentin-the-qurans-legal-culture/) - In The Qurʾān’s Legal Culture, Holger Michael Zellentin takes up an old but live question in qurʾanic studies: what role did the religious traditions of late antiquity play in shaping the qurʾanic text and dispensation? While the question is familiar, Zellentin’s approach and answers are new. Many scholars will be acquainted with analyses that consider
- [Review of Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, Le Coran par lui-même](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-anne-sylvie-boisliveau-le-coran-par-lui-meme/) - Among the recent rash of publications on the Qurʾan, the work of Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau stands out as much for its scientific quality as for its originality. It is true that the question of the auto-referentiality of the Qurʾan—“what the Qurʾan says about itself”—has already been treated partially, notably by Daniel Madigan,[1] Stefan Wild,[2] and several
- [Review of John A.C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-john-a-c-brown-misquoting-muhammad/) - Misquoting Muhammad is a compelling read. It is an ambitious and well-conceived effort by Jonathan A.C. Brown to explore the rich intellectual and legal tradition of Sunni Islam. The work demonstrates that Brown is one of the few contemporary scholars capable of working comfortably with both the pre-modern juristic tradition and the modern Islamic world
- [Review of Michel Cuypers, La composition du Coran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-michel-cuypers-la-composition-du-coran/) - Michel Cuypers is known to many students of the Qurʾan from his influential 2007 study of Sūrat al-Māʾidah: Le festin, later translated into English as The Banquet.[1] In Le festin Cuypers analyzes Sūrat al-Māʾidah using a method (which I will refer to as ‘Semitic rhetorical analysis’) meant to uncover the particular structure of qurʾanic passages.
- [Review of David S. Powers, Zayd](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-of-david-s-powers-zayd/) - David Powers’ new monograph Zayd is a follow up to his much debated Muḥammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men (2009) and provides an extensive investigation into the lives of two prominent Companions of Muhammad: his freedman (mawlā) Zayd ibn Harithah and Zayd’s son Usāmah. In the prior monograph, Powers argued that
- [The Qurʾānic Doublets: A Preliminary Inquiry.](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-qurʾanic-doublets-a-preliminary-inquiry/) - The present study involves a presentation and analysis of repeated phrases, or doublets, in the Qurʾān. I identify twenty-nine doublets of at least nine words (allowing for minor variation), the great majority of which are complete verses, found in different sūrahs. To provide a methodological framework for the analysis of these doublets I consider the
- [From Coptic to Arabic: A New Palimpsest and the Early Transmission History of the Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/from-coptic-to-arabic-a-new-palimpsest-and-the-early-transmission-history-of-the-qurʾan/) - Recently identified on the antiquities market, the Copto-Qurʾānic Palimpsest represents an important artifact for the history of the transmission of the Qurʾān. Because its biblical lower (i.e., erased) text is in Coptic, the qurʾānic upper text is likely to have been written in Egypt. Hence, it provides us with our first piece of evidence for
- [The Prophet’s Visions in Sūrat al-Najm](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-prophets-visions-in-surat-al-najm/) - The opening verse of Q al-Najm 53, an oath by “the star” (najm) and its movement in the night sky, is followed by a relatively lengthy description of two vision experiences of the Prophet. This study aims to better understand the opening oath in the sūrah and its relationship to the subsequent visions. I will
- [On the Regionality of Qurʾānic Codices](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/on-the-regionality-of-qurʾanic-codices/) - The ʿUthmānic codification of the Qurʾān as described by Muslim sources includes the distribution of at least four regional exemplars to Syria, Medina, Basra, and Kufa. Orthographic variants between these codices were identified and collected by Muslim scholars in the rasm literature. This paper explores the subject of qurʾānic regionality through material evidence. Combining philological,
- [Sūrat al-Insān, Meccan or Medinan? A Thematic and Rhetorical Reading of Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) in Parallel with Sūrat al-Qiyāmah (Q 75)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/surat-al-insan-meccan-or-medinan-a-thematic-and-rhetorical-reading-of-surat-al-insan-q-76-in-parallel-with-surat-al-qiyamah-q-75/) - أو توليدها. هذه الدراسة وأمثالها قد تساهم في فهم ترتيب السور في المصحف عبر مالحظة اإلشارات النصية وتحليلها، والروابط اللغوية والموضوعات المتكررة لتقديم تفسير لهذا الترتيب، وللرسالة التي ُيعطيها في تلك الحقبة من النزول. وتنضم هذه الدراسة إلى مصاف الدراسات الموضوعية التي اهتمت بنظم القرآن وترتيبه، وتكمن ميزتها في جمعها بين منهجيتين: غربية وإسالمية، مما
- [Fa’ṣdaʿ bi-mā tuʾmar: A Motif-Based Study of Sūrat al-Ḥijr](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/faṣdaʿ-bi-ma-tuʾmar-a-motif-based-study-of-surat-al-ḥijr/) - A stone motif runs through several levels of the fifteenth sūrah of the Qurʾān, Sūrat al-Ḥijr, along with two lesser motifs of sound and dryness. Several textual features suggest that around the time of this sūrah’s revelation, resistance to Muḥammad’s call became more intense and that he was deeply affected by this opposition. When read
- [The Controversy over Reciting the Qurʾān with Tones (al‑qirāʾah bi’l‑alḥān)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-controversy-over-reciting-the-qurʾan-with-tones-al‑qiraʾah-bil‑alḥan/) - Whether it is acceptable to recite the Qurʾān with tones (al‑qirāʾah bi’l‑alḥān) touches on two larger issues, the acceptability of music and the distinctiveness of Islam from Christianity and Judaism. Various ḥadīth reports apparently caused difficulty for traditionalists who rejected recitation with tones. The reports themselves were evidently too well established to be rejected. Sometimes
- [“Their Prayer at the House Is Nothing but Whistling and Clapping of Hands” (Q al-Anfāl 8:35): Negotiating Processions in the Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/their-prayer-at-the-house-is-nothing-but-whistling-and-clapping-of-hands-q-al-anfal-835-negotiating-processions-in-the-qurʾan/) - In this article, I argue that the Qurʾān as a post-axial text contains traces of an anti-processional ideal in its position on circumambulation (ṭawāf), the Kaʿbah, and the pilgrimage (ḥajj). This argument is based on the observation that the Qurʾān both presents processional circumambulation as a legitimate ritual of reverence (e.g., Q al-Baqarah 2:125) but
- [Review Essay: Al-Ḥākim al-Jishumī and the History and Study of Muʿtazilī Exegesis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-essay-al-ḥakim-al-jishumi-and-the-history-and-study-of-muʿtazili-exegesis/) - عن حجة القراءات أيضا. وواضح أن المحقق لم يتفطن لسياق الكالم وأنه عن ِس، فقراءة أبي عمرو هي: ً اإلدغام وليس عن إبدال التاء ياء ُ . ثم إن تعليق المحقق ملب “بل يؤثرون.” أما استشهاد الجشمي بآية: “وزرابي مبثوثة” في هذا السياق، فغريب ًا بالمحقق أن يشير إلى ذلك ويعلله. ثم إن من القراءات
- [Obituary: F. E. Peters](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/obituary-f-e-peters/) - F. E. (Francis Edward) Peters, a scholar best known as a historian of religion, died on April 30, 2020 in New York at the age of 93. A native of New York City, Peters was trained in the Jesuit tradition, received his MA in Latin and Greek at St. Louis University, and received a licentiate
- [Bodily Resurrection in the Qurʾān and Syriac Anti-Tritheist Debate](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/bodily-resurrection-in-the-qurʾan-and-syriac-anti-tritheist-debate/) - When considering the content and polemical strategies of certain passages in the Qurʾān, the history of the short-lived Tritheist movement merits further analysis. This Miaphysite Christian faction was accused of confessing a triple Godhead and denying a physical resurrection. In the half century prior to the emergence of the Qurʾān, lively debates took place among
- [My God? Your Lord!” A Qurʾānic Response to a Biblical Question](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/my-god-your-lord-a-qurʾanic-response-to-a-biblical-question/) - Sūrat al-Ḍuḥā (Q 93) is often regarded as reflecting details from the sīrah of Muḥammad, or the biography of the qurʾānic prophet. The present study suggests that this sūrah should be understood as a re-reading of a biblical text, Psalm 22. The article consists of three parts. The first surveys the traditional tafsīr of the
- [Connecting the Dots: Diacritics, Scribal Culture, and the Qurʾān in the First/Seventh Century](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/connecting-the-dots-diacritics-scribal-culture-and-the-qurʾan-in-the-first-seventh-century/) - Modern historians assert that the earliest manuscripts of the Qurʾān were written in an Arabic scriptio defectiva, devoid of orthographic aids such as consonantal diacritics and vowel markers. In fact, the earliest extant manuscripts—those in the Ḥijāzī script, dated to the first/seventh century— do exhibit consonantal diacritics, though only sporadically and insufficiently to create a
- [The Verse Numbering Systems of the Qurʾān: A Statistical and Literary Comparison](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-verse-numbering-systems-of-the-qurʾan-a-statistical-and-literary-comparison/) - This article compares the seven verse numbering systems of the Qurʾān recorded in classical sources: Medina I, Medina II, Mecca, Damascus, Ḥimṣ, Basra, and Kufa. It compares them statistically to determine the possibility of genetic relationships, the incidence of variation and the typical causes, and whether any of the systems might be considered more reliable
- [Why Does the Qurʾān Need the Meccan Sanctuary? Response to Professor Gerald Hawting’s 2017 Presidential Address](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/why-does-the-qurʾan-need-the-meccan-sanctuary-response-to-professor-gerald-hawtings-2017-presidential-address/) - In this response to Prof. Hawting’s Presidential Address, I offer my views on the centrality of the Meccan sanctuary to the message of the Qurʾān in the Meccan period, its subsequent salience in the Medinan period, and the evidence for its continued importance for the Muslims of the seventh century. Reverence for the Meccan sanctuary,
- [Lot and His Offer: 2016 IQSA Presidential Address](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/lot-and-his-offer-2016-iqsa-presidential-address/) - The Lot narrative has received significant attention in qurʾānic scholarship and tafsīr literature, both as part of the genre of qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (stories of the prophets) and as the foundational narrative informing Muslim ethics on homoeroticism, sodomy, and, more recently, homosexuality. However, Lot’s offer of his daughters to a mob of would-be rapists (Q Hūd
- [Response to Farid Esack’s 2016 Presidential Address](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/response-to-farid-esacks-2016-presidential-address/) - Prof. Esack, in his IQSA presidential address, discusses his discomfort with the qurʾānic depiction of Lot as a righteous prophet of God who offers his daughters up for sexual assault in order to save his male guests from sexual assault. He writes that he is further bothered by the attempt on the part of Islamic
- [Cognate and Paronomastic Curse Retorts in the Qurʾān: Speech Genres and the Investigation of Qurʾānic Language](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/cognate-and-paronomastic-curse-retorts-in-the-qurʾan-speech-genres-and-the-investigation-of-qurʾanic-language/) - This study focuses on a sub-genre of the genre of curses in Arabic, the cognate or paronomastic curse, one of the many forms of regular cognate paronomasia (ishtiqāq) that have been common in Arabic usage from pre-Islamic Arabic to the modern Arabic dialects. It argues that such curses occur in several passages of the Qurʾān
- [Destabilizing Gender, Reproducing Maternity: Mary in the Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/destabilizing-gender-reproducing-maternity-mary-in-the-qurʾan/) - The Qurʾān tells Mary’s story in extended passages in Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3) and Sūrat Maryam (Q 19). These stories have been interpreted to emphasize sameness between men and women and prove qurʾānic gender egalitarianism on the one hand, and to illustrate the qurʾānic valuing of female, especially maternal, experience on the other. This
- [Law, Structure, and Meaning in Sūrat al-Baqarah](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/law-structure-and-meaning-in-surat-al-baqarah/) - This article uses the legal passages in Sūrat al-Baqarah to index the sūrah’s themes and structure. A consideration of all the sūrah’s legal passages shows that they contribute to a narrative of covenantal succession that structures Sūrat al-Baqarah as a whole. The main legal passages in the sūrah (vv. 178-203, 215-242) form a “Neo-Covenantal Code”
- [Ring Composition in Sūrat Yūsuf (Q 12)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/ring-composition-in-surat-yusuf-q-12/) - This paper focuses on the structure of Sūrat Yūsuf (Q 12), arguing that the sūrah demonstrates the most prominent features of ring composition more intricately than scholarship has thus far acknowledged. This paper first considers guidelines for arguing for ring composition, following critical scholarship on ring composition and Mary Douglas’ Thinking in Circles. It then
- [Review Essay: Positivism, Revisionism, and Agnosticism in the Study of Late Antiquity and the Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/review-essay-positivism-revisionism-and-agnosticism-in-the-study-of-late-antiquity-and-the-qurʾan/) - This essay examines two recent publications relevant to research into the Qurʾān’s revelatory context in late antique Arabia: G. W. Bowersock’s The Crucible of Islam and Islam and Its Past, edited by Carol Bakhos and Michael Cook. The approaches to questions of Islamic origins, the background to the Qurʾān, and the interpretation of the qurʾānic
- [The House and the Book: Sanctuary and Scripture in Islam (2017 IQSA Presidential Address)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-house-and-the-book-sanctuary-and-scripture-in-islam-2017-iqsa-presidential-address/) - The killing of animals in the context of religious ritual seems to have virtually disappeared during Late Antiquity, and the development of rabbinic Judaism might suggest that a religion focused on texts and their interpretation stands at the opposite pole to one that has a central sanctuary with a sacrificial ritual at its center. How
- [Afterward: The Academic Study of the Qur'an—Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/afterward-the-academic-study-of-the-quran-achievements-challenges-and-prospects/) - Qurʾānic Studies is a broad feld that includes many categories and subtopics, including grammar, lexicon, rhetoric, theology, law, textual history, textual variants, the history of interpretation, and many others, any one of which is, or has the potential to be, large and complex. The investigation of these felds is not new but goes back to
- [القرآن: ما بعد أبي زيد وما قبل المصحف](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/القرآن-ما-بعد-أبي-زيد-وما-قبل-المصحف/) - هذا البحث القصير يستكمل عمل نصر حامد أبو زيد ويناقش موضوع التطابق بين قرآن”المصحف“ وقرآن ”اللوح المحفوظ.“ ويجد الدكتور علي مبروك في التراث ً السلمي نفسه ما ينفي ذلك التطابق المفترض، بل وأن ”الشرط النساني“ لعب دورا ً في إعطاء قرآن .ً ً مفتوحا يترك القرآن خطاباالمصحف ّ الشكل الذي استقر ّ عليه بعد وفاة
- [Remembrance: Andrew Rippin (1950-2016)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/remembrance-andrew-rippin-1950-2016/) - On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, Andrew Rippin passed away at his home in Victoria, British Columbia.1 Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria since 2013—where he was formerly Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities—Andrew (or Andy as he was known to some) was an esteemed colleague, revered mentor, and scholarly inspiration
- [The Problematic of Prophecy: 2015 IQSA Presidential Address](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/the-problematic-of-prophecy-2015-iqsa-presidential-address/) - When Muḥammad began to gain followers in Mecca, the leaders of the town sent trusted emissaries to the Jews of Yathrib/Medina to ask their opinion about whether or not Muḥammad was a true prophet. Al-Nadhr b. al-Ḥārith and ʿUqbah b. Abī Muʿayṭ traveled the 200 or so miles to Medina. When they got there, they
- [Response To Reuven Firestone’s 2015 IQSA Presidential Address](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/response-to-reuven-firestones-2015-iqsa-presidential-address/) - In his presidential keynote, Reuven Firestone has identified multiple features of the problem of prophecy in Islam. He informs us about the ways in which Muḥammad’s prophecy was first expected to occur according to reports from some Arabian Jews and how certain features of Muḥammad’s prophecy were even noted in Jewish sources. At the same
- [he Current State of Qurʾānic Studies: Commentary on a Roundtable Discussion](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/he-current-state-of-qurʾanic-studies-commentary-on-a-roundtable-discussion/) - This paper is based on a roundtable discussion held at the 2015 IQSA Annual Meeting about the current state of the field of Qurʾānic Studies and its future, gathering together specialists in different areas from within the academic field of Qurʾānic Studies, as well as from outside it. The panelists were Kecia Ali (Boston University),
- [Form Criticism or a Rolling Corpus: The Methodology of John Wansbrough through the Lens of Biblical Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/form-criticism-or-a-rolling-corpus-the-methodology-of-john-wansbrough-through-the-lens-of-biblical-studies/) - John Wansbrough’s scholarship on the Qurʾān has had a significant impact on Qurʾānic Studies over the last forty years. His ideas continue to stimulate research into historical and literary dimensions of the Qurʾān, even though assessments vary greatly regarding the plausibility of some of his major ideas, and his subtle arguments can be difficult to
- [Did Ḥafṣah Edit the Qurʾān? A Response with Notes on the Codices of the Prophet’s Wives](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/did-ḥafṣah-edit-the-qurʾan-a-response-with-notes-on-the-codices-of-the-prophets-wives/) - This article revisits, assesses, and critiques the recent claim made by Ruqayya Khan that Ḥafṣah bt. ʿUmar, a wife of the Prophet Muḥammad, played a significant editorial role in the early establishment of the text of the Qurʾān but that her prominent editorial role in this enterprise has been suppressed by androcentric scholarship. In the
- [“Nothing but Time Destroys Us”: The Deniers of Resurrection in the Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/nothing-but-time-destroys-us-the-deniers-of-resurrection-in-the-qurʾan/) - In this posthumously published paper, Patricia Crone (d. 2015) examines a corpus of verses in the Qurʾān in which the mushrikūn, the supposedly pagan opponents of the qurʾānic prophet, are portrayed as objecting to the doctrine of the resurrection, one of the central tenets of the Qurʾān. In contrast to the traditional understanding of the
- [Bukhārī’s Kitāb Tafsīr al-Qurʾān](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/bukharis-kitab-tafsir-al-qurʾan/) - The celebrated Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī (d. 256/870) includes a long book of qurʾānic commentary. It is unusual in the Ṣaḥīḥ as a whole in relying heavily on reports from Companions: 72 percent of all the unique reports given full isnāds in the book, as opposed to only about 9 percent of all reports in the
- [Editors’ Introduction: The Qurʾān Between Bible and Tafsīr](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/resources/editors-introduction-the-qurʾan-between-bible-and-tafsir/) - JIQSA is being launched at a crucial time for the growth and development of Qurʾānic Studies as a scholarly field. While there has been a surge of advances in just the last fifteen years, the field at times appears incoherent, seeming to lack a clear disciplinary identity. As greater numbers of scholars devote their efforts

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## Events

- [IQSA Annual Meeting 2026](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/iqsa-annual-meeting-2026/) - IQSA 2026 Annual Meeting The International Qur'anic Studies Association is delighted to hold its 2026 Annual Meeting from July 8 - 11, 2026 at the University of Vienna in scenic Austria. The Call for Papers submission deadline is April 30, 2026. View Submission Guidelines Submission Form Registration is now open! This year’s meeting will be fully in-person, offering an
- [Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize Deadline](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/andrew-rippin-best-paper-prize-deadline/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) will award a prize to the best paper from IQSA’s 2025 Annual Meeting by a graduate student or early career scholar (Ph.D. awarded 2020 or later), in honor of Andrew Rippin, inaugural president of the learned society. The prize winner will receive $500. In addition, the award committee will provide him/her
- [IQSA Annual Meeting 2025](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/iqsa-annual-meeting-2025/) - The International Qur'anic Studies Association is delighted to hold its Annual Meeting from November 13 - 16, 2025 hosted on the Loyola Marymount University campus in Los Angeles, California. This conference has virtual AND in-person options: U.S.-based scholars: We warmly encourage you to attend on campus to enjoy face-to-face discussions, bookstore exhibits, and informal networking in sunny Los Angeles. Non-U.S.-based scholars: If you plan to
- [Call for Papers Deadline: Annual Meeting 2025](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/call-for-papers-deadline-annual-meeting-2025/) - The Call-for-Papers deadline has been extended to June 15 2025 for IQSA's Annual Meeting from November 13 - 16, 2025 hosted by Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Please find details on the event website.
- [IQSA at SBL/AAR 2024](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/iqsa-at-sbl-aar-2024/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association will have a limited program in San Diego, California from November 23-24, 2024 in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: What are the dates of IQSA’s meeting? A: The IQSA Annual Meeting begins and ends November 23-24, 2024. Q: How do I register for the meeting as
- [IQSA Annual Meeting [SBL/AAR] 2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/iqsa-annual-meeting-sbl-aar-2022/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Colorado from November 18–21, 2021 in conjunction with the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates”
- [IQSA Annual Meeting 2022 Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre, Palermo, Sicily](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/event/iqsa-annual-meeting-2022-giorgio-la-pira-library-and-research-centre-palermo-sicily/) - The International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) is happy to announce its 2022 Annual Meeting from September 5-7, 2022, hosted by the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre (Palermo, Italy). The 2022 Annual Meeting welcomes papers on any topic within the range of the interests of the Qur’anic text, encouraging in particular the submission of

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- [haeresium ferax](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/haeresium-ferax/)
- [hanif](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hanif/)
- [heresy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/heresy/)
- [heterodox](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/heterodox/)
- [Judaism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/judaism/)
- [monks](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/monks/)
- [Muhammad](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/muhammad/)
- [nasrani](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nasrani/)
- [Nazoraeans](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nazoraeans/)
- [Protestant](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/protestant/)
- [Richard Bell](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/richard-bell/)
- [Robert Speer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/robert-speer/)
- [Samuel Zwemer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/samuel-zwemer/)
- [Semitic](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/semitic/)
- [Theodoret of Cyrrhus](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/theodoret-of-cyrrhus/)
- [نصراني](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/نصراني/)
- [هرطقة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/هرطقة/)
- [أحبار](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أحبار/)
- [المسيحية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/المسيحية/)
- [النصارى](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/النصارى/)
- [اليهودية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/اليهودية/)
- [حنيف](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/حنيف/)
- [رهبان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/رهبان/)
- [سورة المائدة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سورة-المائدة/)
- [سورة النساء](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سورة-النساء/)
- [سورة التوبة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سورة-التوبة/)
- [Alfons Teipen](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/alfons-teipen/)
- [Carl Ernst](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/carl-ernst/)
- [chronology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/chronology/)
- [Dave Damrel](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/dave-damrel/)
- [Erin Palmer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/erin-palmer/)
- [Gordon Newby](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/gordon-newby/)
- [How to Read the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/how-to-read-the-quran/)
- [Meccan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/meccan/)
- [Medinan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/medinan/)
- [poetry](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/poetry/)
- [religion](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/religion/)
- [rhetoric](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/rhetoric/)
- [Rizwan Zamir](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/rizwan-zamir/)
- [SECSOR](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/secsor/)
- [Theodore Nöldeke](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/theodore-noldeke/)
- [كيف تقرأ القرآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/كيف-تقرأ-القرآن/)
- [Youshaa Patel](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/youshaa-patel/)
- [بلاغة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/بلاغة/)
- [شعر](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/شعر/)
- [Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/encyclopaedia-of-the-qurʾan/)
- [Islamic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-studies/)
- [Jane McAuliffe](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jane-mcauliffe/)
- [Mona Siddiqui](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mona-siddiqui/)
- [William Graham](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/william-graham/)
- [المعجم القرآني](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/المعجم-القرآني/)
- [دراسات قرآنية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/دراسات-قرآنية/)
- [دراسات إسلامية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/دراسات-إسلامية/)
- [Abdulla Galadari](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/abdulla-galadari/)
- [Alain George](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/alain-george/)
- [Andreas Görke](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/andreas-gorke/)
- [Anne-Laure Zwilling](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/anne-laure-zwilling/)
- [David Kiltz](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/david-kiltz/)
- [Fiona McCallum](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/fiona-mccallum/)
- [Hamid al-Din al-Farahi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hamid-al-din-al-farahi/)
- [Hugh Goddard](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hugh-goddard/)
- [Interfaith](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/interfaith/)
- [International Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/international-meeting/)
- [Islamic Tradition](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-tradition/)
- [Johan Rasanayagam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/johan-rasanayagam/)
- [Keren Abbou Hershkovits](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/keren-abbou-hershkovits/)
- [Mustansir Mir](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mustansir-mir/)
- [Nadjet Zouggar](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nadjet-zouggar/)
- [Orhan Elmaz](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/orhan-elmaz/)
- [Orkhan Mir-Kasimov](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/orkhan-mir-kasimov/)
- [prophets](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/prophets/)
- [Roy Michael McCoy III](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/roy-michael-mccoy-iii/)
- [Saeko Yazaki](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/saeko-yazaki/)
- [St. Andrews](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/st-andrews/)
- [Ulrika Mårtensson](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ulrika-martensson/)
- [قصص الأنبياء](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قصص-الأنبياء/)
- [Zohar Hadromi-Allouche](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/zohar-hadromi-allouche/)
- [الكتاب المقدس](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الكتاب-المقدس/)
- [طبري](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/طبري/)
- [Arabic](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arabic/)
- [Islamic education](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-education/)
- [Kuwait](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/kuwait/)
- [Lauren Osborne](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/lauren-osborne/)
- [maqam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/maqam/)
- [Mishari Rashid Alafasy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mishari-rashid-alafasy/)
- [Qur'an recitation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-recitation/)
- [rhyme](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/rhyme/)
- [rhythm](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/rhythm/)
- [saj'](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/saj/)
- [مقام](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مقام/)
- [مشاري راشد العفاسي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مشاري-راشد-العفاسي/)
- [الكويت](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الكويت/)
- [ترتيل](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ترتيل/)
- [سجع](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سجع/)
- [Center for Islamic Sciences](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/center-for-islamic-sciences/)
- [Muzaffar Iqbal](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/muzaffar-iqbal/)
- [égalité](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/egalite/)
- [démocratie](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/democratie/)
- [droits de la femme](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/droits-de-la-femme/)
- [Fazlur Rahman](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/fazlur-rahman/)
- [herméneutique du Coran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hermeneutique-du-coran/)
- [ma‘na](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mana/)
- [maqasid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/maqasid/)
- [Mohamed Talbi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mohamed-talbi/)
- [Nasr Hamid Abou Zeid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nasr-hamid-abou-zeid/)
- [Occident](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/occident/)
- [Paul Ricœur](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/paul-ricoeur/)
- [Qur’anic Hermeneutics](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quranic-hermeneutics/)
- [République](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/republique/)
- [Selami Varlik](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/selami-varlik/)
- [tolérance](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/tolerance/)
- [مقاصد](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مقاصد/)
- [معنى](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/معنى/)
- [المساواه](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/المساواه/)
- [الديمقراطية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الديمقراطية/)
- [الغرب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الغرب/)
- [تأويل](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/تأويل/)
- [حقوق المرأة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/حقوق-المرأة/)
- [Bryn Mawr](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/bryn-mawr/)
- [Central European University](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/central-european-university/)
- [Qur’an Manuscripts](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-manuscripts/)
- [Qur’anic Origins](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quranic-origins/)
- [تاريخ القرآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/تاريخ-القرآن/)
- [Ankara](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ankara/)
- [First International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/first-international-symposium-on-rethinking-the-quran/)
- [Mohammed Abed al-Jabri](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mohammed-abed-al-jabri/)
- [Mohammed Arkoun](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mohammed-arkoun/)
- [Research Institute for Philosophical Foundations of Disciplines](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/research-institute-for-philosophical-foundations-of-disciplines/)
- [قواما](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قواما/)
- [محمد أركون](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/محمد-أركون/)
- [محمد عابد الجابري](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/محمد-عابد-الجابري/)
- [İlim Dallarının Düşünce Temellerini Araştırma Enstitüsü](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ilim-dallarinin-dusunce-temellerini-arastirma-enstitusu/)
- [Abbasid](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/abbasid/)
- [absolutism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/absolutism/)
- [Ali b. Abi Talib](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ali-b-abi-talib/)
- [Ali Mabrouk](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ali-mabrouk/)
- [authority](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/authority/)
- [Muawiya](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/muawiya/)
- [Mudar](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mudar/)
- [politics](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/politics/)
- [Quraysh](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quraysh/)
- [Shia](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/shia/)
- [Sunni](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/sunni/)
- [Umar b. al-Khattab](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/umar-b-al-khattab/)
- [Umayyad](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/umayyad/)
- [Uthman b. Affan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/uthman-b-affan/)
- [قريش](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قريش/)
- [مضر](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مضر/)
- [معاوية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/معاوية/)
- [أمويون](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أمويون/)
- [أطلقة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أطلقة/)
- [سلطان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سلطان/)
- [سنة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سنة/)
- [شيعة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/شيعة/)
- [علي مبروك](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/علي-مبروك/)
- [علي بن أبي طالب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/علي-بن-أبي-طالب/)
- [عباسيون](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/عباسيون/)
- [عثمان بن عفان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/عثمان-بن-عفان/)
- [A. J. Droge](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/a-j-droge/)
- [Alasdair Watson](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/alasdair-watson/)
- [Annual Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/annual-meeting/)
- [Asma Hilali](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/asma-hilali/)
- [Brannon Wheeler](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/brannon-wheeler/)
- [Clare Wilde](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/clare-wilde/)
- [David Hollenberg](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/david-hollenberg/)
- [David Penchansky](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/david-penchansky/)
- [Devin J. Stewart](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/devin-j-stewart/)
- [Farid Esack](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/farid-esack/)
- [Hamza M. Zafer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hamza-m-zafer/)
- [Helen Blatherwick](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/helen-blatherwick/)
- [Juliane Hammer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/juliane-hammer/)
- [Kecia Ali](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/kecia-ali/)
- [Keith Small](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/keith-small/)
- [Maria Dakake](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/maria-dakake/)
- [Marion Holmes Katz](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/marion-holmes-katz/)
- [Michael Graves](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/michael-graves/)
- [Omar Tarazi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/omar-tarazi/)
- [Roberto Tottoli](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/roberto-tottoli/)
- [Shawkat M. Toorawa](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/shawkat-m-toorawa/)
- [Simon Rettig](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/simon-rettig/)
- [قضايا المساواة بين الجنسين](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قضايا-المساواة-بين-الجنسين/)
- [نقد](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/نقد/)
- [Younus Mirza](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/younus-mirza/)
- [أخلاق](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أخلاق/)
- [إسرائيليات](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إسرائيليات/)
- [الحداثة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الحداثة/)
- ['Uthman](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/uthman/)
- [Abu Musa](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/abu-musa/)
- [codicology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/codicology/)
- [ibn mas'ud](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ibn-masud/)
- [khabar](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/khabar/)
- [mihna](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mihna/)
- [mushaf](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mushaf/)
- [Ubayy b. Ka'b](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ubayy-b-kab/)
- [محنة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/محنة/)
- [مصاحف](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مصاحف/)
- [Viviane Comerro](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/viviane-comerro/)
- [Viviane de Premare](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/viviane-de-premare/)
- [Zayd b. Thabit](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/zayd-b-thabit/)
- [Zuhri](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/zuhri/)
- [أبو موسى](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أبو-موسى/)
- [أبي بن كعب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أبي-بن-كعب/)
- [إبن مسعود](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إبن-مسعود/)
- [خبر](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/خبر/)
- [زهري](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/زهري/)
- [زيد بن ثابت](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/زيد-بن-ثابت/)
- [صحيح البخاري](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/صحيح-البخاري/)
- [عثمان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/عثمان/)
- [calligraphy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/calligraphy/)
- [Islamic Art](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-art/)
- [الخط العربي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الخط-العربي/)
- [رق ممسوح](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/رق-ممسوح/)
- [الفاتحة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الفاتحة/)
- [Arthur Droge](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arthur-droge/)
- [نصرانية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/نصرانية/)
- [يهودية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/يهودية/)
- [Esra Tasdelen](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/esra-tasdelen/)
- [Leanova Designs](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/leanova-designs/)
- [Mun’im Sirri](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/munim-sirri/)
- [Ahmad Khan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ahmad-khan/)
- [Arabic Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arabic-studies/)
- [Biqa'i](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/biqai/)
- [Brian Wilson](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/brian-wilson/)
- [Carole Hillenbrand](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/carole-hillenbrand/)
- [Christian Lange](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/christian-lange/)
- [Christopher Melchert](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/christopher-melchert/)
- [Elisabeth Kendall](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/elisabeth-kendall/)
- [Frédéric Imbert](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/frederic-imbert/)
- [Holger Zellentin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/holger-zellentin/)
- [Institute of Ismaili Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/institute-of-ismaili-studies/)
- [Islam Dayeh](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islam-dayeh/)
- [Jihad](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jihad/)
- [Jon Hoover](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jon-hoover/)
- [Karen Bauer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/karen-bauer/)
- [Marilyn Booth](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/marilyn-booth/)
- [Martyrdom](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/martyrdom/)
- [Nicolai Sinai](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nicolai-sinai/)
- [Oxford University](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/oxford-university/)
- [Robert Gleave](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/robert-gleave/)
- [Stephen Burge](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/stephen-burge/)
- [Talmud](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/talmud/)
- [إنجيل](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إنجيل/)
- [البقاعي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/البقاعي/)
- [تلمود](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/تلمود/)
- [جهاد](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/جهاد/)
- [دراسات عربية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/دراسات-عربية/)
- [سيوطي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سيوطي/)
- [شهادة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/شهادة/)
- [Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islam/)
- [Muslim](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/muslim/)
- [محمد](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/محمد/)
- [مسلم](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مسلم/)
- [يعقوب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/يعقوب/)
- [إسلام](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إسلام/)
- [سياسة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سياسة/)
- [Bodleian Library](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/bodleian-library/)
- [Daniel Brubaker](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/daniel-brubaker/)
- [Dome of the Rock](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/dome-of-the-rock/)
- [Hijaz](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hijaz/)
- [Istanbul](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/istanbul/)
- [Kufic](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/kufic/)
- [palimsest](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/palimsest/)
- [St. Petersburg](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/st-petersburg/)
- [sura 20](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/sura-20/)
- [قبة الصخرة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قبة-الصخرة/)
- [يمن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/يمن/)
- [Vienna](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/vienna/)
- [Yemen](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/yemen/)
- [الخط الكوفي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الخط-الكوفي/)
- [حجاز](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/حجاز/)
- [Arabic epigraphy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arabic-epigraphy/)
- [Canal Academie](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/canal-academie/)
- [Islamic epigraphy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-epigraphy/)
- [نقوش إسلامية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/نقوش-إسلامية/)
- [نقوش عربية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/نقوش-عربية/)
- [Oxford Islamic Studies Online](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/oxford-islamic-studies-online/)
- [Syriac Bible](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/syriac-bible/)
- [أرامي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أرامي/)
- [القرآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/القرآن/)
- [سرياني](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سرياني/)
- [ahl al-kitab](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ahl-al-kitab/)
- [Hebrew Bible](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hebrew-bible/)
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- [Krisztina Szilagyi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/krisztina-szilagyi/)
- [Later medieval Arab Christian inculturation of the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/later-medieval-arab-christian-inculturation-of-the-quran/)
- [Mark Beaumont](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mark-beaumont/)
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- [Seventh Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/seventh-mingana-symposium-on-arab-christianity-and-islam/)
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- [An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries - Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/an-anthology-of-quranic-commentaries-volume-i-on-the-nature-of-the-divine/)
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- [Isra Yazicioglu.](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/isra-yazicioglu/)
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- [Signifying (on) Scriptures series](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/signifying-on-scriptures-series/)
- [Understanding the Qurʾanic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/understanding-the-qurʾanic-miracle-stories-in-the-modern-age-book/)
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- [Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/centre-for-the-history-of-arabic-studies-in-europe-chase/)
- [Charles Burnett](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/charles-burnett/)
- [Influence of the Qur'an on Western Literature](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/influence-of-the-quran-on-western-literature/)
- [Jan Loop](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jan-loop/)
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- [early Qur'anic manuscript](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/early-quranic-manuscript/)
- [Lewis-Mingana](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/lewis-mingana/)
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- [Marco Boella](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/marco-boella/)
- [2nd International Symposium on Rethinking the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/2nd-international-symposium-on-rethinking-the-quran/)
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- [IQSA meeting san diego 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-meeting-san-diego-2014/)
- [Linguistic Literary and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/linguistic-literary-and-thematic-perspectives-on-the-quranic-corpus/)
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- [Qur'an material culture](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-material-culture/)
- [San Diego IQSA meeting 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/san-diego-iqsa-meeting-2014/)
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- [san diego annual meeting 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/san-diego-annual-meeting-2014/)
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- [Keys to the Arcana](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/keys-to-the-arcana/)
- [Shahrastani](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/shahrastani/)
- [Shahrastani’s Esoteric Commentary on the Qur’an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/shahrastanis-esoteric-commentary-on-the-quran/)
- [Toby Mayer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/toby-mayer/)
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- [al-Tabari](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/al-tabari/)
- [Barbara Roggema](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/barbara-roggema/)
- [Defining Belief and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Role of Interreligious Debate and Interaction](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/defining-belief-and-identities-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-the-role-of-interreligious-debate-and-interaction/)
- [Golden Calf narratives](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/golden-calf-narratives/)
- [King's College London](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/kings-college-london/)
- [Late Antique Disputation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/late-antique-disputation/)
- [Marcel Poorthuis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/marcel-poorthuis/)
- [Yannis Papadogiannakis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/yannis-papadogiannakis/)
- [classical Arabic grammatical theories](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/classical-arabic-grammatical-theories/)
- [classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/classical-arabic-islamic-rhetorical-theory/)
- [early medieval Islamic politics](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/early-medieval-islamic-politics/)
- [Islamic historical vision](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-historical-vision/)
- [Islamic moral values](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-moral-values/)
- [Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/shaping-a-quranic-worldview-book/)
- [Vanessa De Gifis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/vanessa-de-gifis/)
- [IQSA Executive Board](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-executive-board/)
- [Reuven Firestone](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/reuven-firestone/)
- [AJ Droge](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/aj-droge/)
- [Ayman Ibrahim](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ayman-ibrahim/)
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- [article Mosque and Church](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/article-mosque-and-church/)
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- [“The Qur’an and Semitic Studies”](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/the-quran-and-semitic-studies/)
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- [Hartmut Bobzin (Erlangen)](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hartmut-bobzin-erlangen/)
- [ISAP](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/isap/)
- [Munich Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/munich-institute-of-near-and-middle-eastern-studies/)
- [Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/sixth-international-society-for-arabic-papyrology/)
- [conference SBL AAR](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/conference-sbl-aar/)
- [IQSA AM 2014 San Diego](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-am-2014-san-diego/)
- [IQSA Annual Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-annual-meeting/)
- [IQSA conference 2014](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-conference-2014/)
- [IQSA membership](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-membership/)
- [مؤتمر](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مؤتمر/)
- [تسجيل](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/تسجيل/)
- [عضوية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/عضوية/)
- [Biblical characters](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/biblical-characters/)
- [question-and-answer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/question-and-answer/)
- [قل](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قل/)
- [جدل](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/جدل/)
- [سؤال - جواب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سؤال-جواب/)
- [conference](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/conference/)
- [Renewal in Quranic studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/renewal-in-quranic-studies/)
- [التجديد في الدراسات القرآنية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/التجديد-في-الدراسات-القرآنية/)
- [جامعة مالايا](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/جامعة-مالايا/)
- [blog for IQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/blog-for-iqsa/)
- [Membership](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/membership/)
- [Registration](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/registration/)
- [Amir Maziar](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/amir-maziar/)
- [EQ Persian translation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/eq-persian-translation/)
- [Hekmat Publication](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hekmat-publication/)
- [Hossein Khandaqabadi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hossein-khandaqabadi/)
- [Masoud Sadeghi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/masoud-sadeghi/)
- [Mehrdad Abbasi](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mehrdad-abbasi/)
- [Qur'anic studies in Iran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quranic-studies-in-iran/)
- [مهرداد عباسي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مهرداد-عباسي/)
- [مسعود صادقي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مسعود-صادقي/)
- [مطالعات قرآني در غرب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مطالعات-قرآني-در-غرب/)
- [امير مازيار](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/امير-مازيار/)
- [انتشارات حکمت](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/انتشارات-حکمت/)
- [ترجمة ايکيو به زبان فارسي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ترجمة-ايکيو-به-زبان-فارسي/)
- [حسين خندق‌آبادي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/حسين-خندقآبادي/)
- [دائرة المعارف قرآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/دائرة-المعارف-قرآن/)
- [Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arabs-and-islam-in-late-antiquity-book/)
- [Gerlach Press](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/gerlach-press/)
- [Theories and Paradigms of Islamic Studies series](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/theories-and-paradigms-of-islamic-studies-series/)
- [community concept](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/community-concept/)
- [feminist theology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/feminist-theology/)
- [God-consciousness concept](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/god-consciousness-concept/)
- [Jerusha T. Lamptey](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jerusha-t-lamptey/)
- [Never Wholly Other book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/never-wholly-other-book/)
- [religious pluralism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/religious-pluralism/)
- [semantic analysis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/semantic-analysis/)
- [taqwā](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/taqwa/)
- [Toshihiko Izutsu](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/toshihiko-izutsu/)
- [التعددية الدينية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/التعددية-الدينية/)
- [تقوى](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/تقوى/)
- [علم المعاني](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/علم-المعاني/)
- [Coran expliqué book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/coran-explique-book/)
- [dīn](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/din/)
- [Nouveaux penseurs book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nouveaux-penseurs-book/)
- [Q 5:3](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/q-53/)
- [Rachid Benzine](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/rachid-benzine/)
- [terminology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/terminology/)
- [دين](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/دين/)
- [adoption](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/adoption/)
- [David S. Powers](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/david-s-powers/)
- [Muhammad is Not the Father book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/muhammad-is-not-the-father-book/)
- [Seal of Prophets](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/seal-of-prophets/)
- [Zayd b. Muhammad](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/zayd-b-muhammad/)
- [Zayd book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/zayd-book/)
- [خاتم النبيين](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/خاتم-النبيين/)
- [زيد بن محمد](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/زيد-بن-محمد/)
- [Samir Hassan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/samir-hassan/)
- [script](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/script/)
- [قرءان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قرءان/)
- [كتاب أنباء القرءان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/كتاب-أنباء-القرءان/)
- [تحريف](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/تحريف/)
- [سمير حسن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/سمير-حسن/)
- [Arthur Jeffrey](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arthur-jeffrey/)
- [Ethiopic](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ethiopic/)
- [Foreign Vocabulary book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/foreign-vocabulary-book/)
- [Hebrew](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hebrew/)
- [Modern Standard Arabic](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/modern-standard-arabic/)
- [Scriptural Polemics book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/scriptural-polemics-book/)
- [tābūt](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/tabut/)
- [التابوت](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/التابوت/)
- [Aix-Marseille Université](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/aix-marseille-universite/)
- [Arabic script](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arabic-script/)
- [French Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/french-ministry-of-foreign-affairs/)
- [IREMAM](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iremam/)
- [Nabatean](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nabatean/)
- [Najran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/najran/)
- [South Arabia](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/south-arabia/)
- [Adyan foundation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/adyan-foundation/)
- [Lebanese American University](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/lebanese-american-university/)
- [Muslim-Christian dialogue](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/muslim-christian-dialogue/)
- [public policy](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/public-policy/)
- [Akkadian](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/akkadian/)
- [Catherine Pennacchio](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/catherine-pennacchio/)
- [Latin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/latin/)
- [loanwords](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/loanwords/)
- [Persian](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/persian/)
- [Qur'an linguistic context](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-linguistic-context/)
- [Abdullah Saeed](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/abdullah-saeed/)
- [Amin Abdullah](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/amin-abdullah/)
- [collaboration](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/collaboration/)
- [Fred Donner](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/fred-donner/)
- [Noorhaidi Hasan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/noorhaidi-hasan/)
- [Nur Ichwan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nur-ichwan/)
- [Quraish Shihab](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quraish-shihab/)
- [Recent Trends in Qur'anic Studies conference](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/recent-trends-in-quranic-studies-conference/)
- [Sahiron Syamsuddin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/sahiron-syamsuddin/)
- [State Islamic University](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/state-islamic-university/)
- [Syafaatun el-Mirzanah](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/syafaatun-el-mirzanah/)
- [Yogyakarta](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/yogyakarta/)
- [Yusuf Rahman](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/yusuf-rahman/)
- [career development](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/career-development/)
- [current students](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/current-students/)
- [Ebrahim Moosa](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/ebrahim-moosa/)
- [mentoring](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mentoring/)
- [Mentorship Lunch](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mentorship-lunch/)
- [networking](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/networking/)
- [new PhDs](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/new-phds/)
- [contemporary interpretations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/contemporary-interpretations/)
- [Michael Birkel](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/michael-birkel/)
- [North American Muslims](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/north-american-muslims/)
- [Qur'an in Conversation book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-in-conversation-book/)
- [scriptural interpretation](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/scriptural-interpretation/)
- [Efim Rezvan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/efim-rezvan/)
- [internet resources for Qur'anic studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/internet-resources-for-quranic-studies/)
- [Kunstkamera](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/kunstkamera/)
- [Manuscripta Orientalia](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/manuscripta-orientalia/)
- [Maryam Rezvan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/maryam-rezvan/)
- [Qur'an canonization](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-canonization/)
- [Qur'an recitations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quran-recitations/)
- [IQSA Business Meeting](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-business-meeting/)
- [IQSA President-Elect](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-president-elect/)
- [Nominations](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/nominations/)
- [Call for Papers](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/call-for-papers/)
- [contextual-comparative methodology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/contextual-comparative-methodology/)
- [historical-critical methodology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/historical-critical-methodology/)
- [JIQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jiqsa/)
- [literary approaches to the Qur'an](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/literary-approaches-to-the-quran/)
- [literary criticism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/literary-criticism/)
- [philology](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/philology/)
- [Qur'anic exegesis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/quranic-exegesis/)
- [African Qur'an manuscript](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/african-quran-manuscript/)
- [Curt Meyer](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/curt-meyer/)
- [Jean Lefe Ag Nouh](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jean-lefe-ag-nouh/)
- [Mali](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/mali/)
- [Timbuktu](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/timbuktu/)
- [Yattara Family Private Library](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/yattara-family-private-library/)
- [Constitution of Medina](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/constitution-of-medina/)
- [Reza Aslan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/reza-aslan/)
- [umm al-kitab](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/umm-al-kitab/)
- [Koran](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/koran/)
- [San Diego](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/san-diego/)
- [authorship](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/authorship/)
- [chiasmus](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/chiasmus/)
- [coherence](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/coherence/)
- [concentric construction](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/concentric-construction/)
- [parallelism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/parallelism/)
- [Raymond Farrin](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/raymond-farrin/)
- [Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/structure-and-quranic-interpretation-book/)
- [symmetry](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/symmetry/)
- [Atlanta](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/atlanta/)
- [Hakaya Productions](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/hakaya-productions/)
- [Vanessa DeGifis](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/vanessa-degifis/)
- [academic publishing](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/academic-publishing/)
- [Arab Spring](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/arab-spring/)
- [Cairo University](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/cairo-university/)
- [humanism](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/humanism/)
- [insan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/insan/)
- [jurist](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/jurist/)
- [political islam](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/political-islam/)
- [religion and politics](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/religion-and-politics/)
- [sultan](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/sultan/)
- [نصوص حول القرآن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/نصوص-حول-القرآن/)
- [الفقهاء](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الفقهاء/)
- [الإنسان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الإنسان/)
- [الإسلام السياسي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الإسلام-السياسي/)
- [الدين والسلطة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الدين-والسلطة/)
- [الربيع العربي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الربيع-العربي/)
- [السلطان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/السلطان/)
- [contextual studies](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/contextual-studies/)
- [intellectual history](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/intellectual-history/)
- [Islamic Cultures book](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/islamic-cultures-book/)
- [Patricia Crone](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/patricia-crone/)
- [social history](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/social-history/)
- [IQSA online discussion group](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/iqsa-online-discussion-group/)
- [keynote paper](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/keynote-paper/)
- [keynote response paper](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/keynote-response-paper/)
- [فيلولوجيا](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/فيلولوجيا/)
- [فْريد دونر](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/فْريد-دونر/)
- [فضل الرحمن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/فضل-الرحمن/)
- [قبلية](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/قبلية/)
- [كريستوف لوكسينبرج](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/كريستوف-لوكسينبرج/)
- [مفكر إسلامي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مفكر-إسلامي/)
- [مقاتل إبن سليمان](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مقاتل-إبن-سليمان/)
- [مايكل كوك](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مايكل-كوك/)
- [مدراش](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مدراش/)
- [مذهب](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/مذهب/)
- [هولجر زلنتن](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/هولجر-زلنتن/)
- [يهودا نيفو](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/يهودا-نيفو/)
- [أنجليكا نويويرث](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أنجليكا-نويويرث/)
- [أبراهام جيجر](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أبراهام-جيجر/)
- [أحمد صبحي منصور](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أحمد-صبحي-منصور/)
- [أسباب النزول](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/أسباب-النزول/)
- [إبن قتيبة](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إبن-قتيبة/)
- [إبن هشام](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إبن-هشام/)
- [إبن أبي داوود السجستاني](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إبن-أبي-داوود-السجستاني/)
- [إبن إسحاق](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إبن-إسحاق/)
- [إعجاز](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/إعجاز/)
- [الفراء](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الفراء/)
- [المكي والمدني](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/المكي-والمدني/)
- [النبي محمد](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/النبي-محمد/)
- [الواحدي](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/tag/الواحدي/)

## Categories

- [Board of Directors](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team_catergory/board-of-directors/)
- [Executive Office](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/team_catergory/team/)

## Publications

- [JIQSA](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication/jiqsa/)
- [RQR](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication/rqr/)

## Volume

- [1](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/1/)
- [2](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/2/)
- [3](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/3/)
- [4](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/4/)
- [5](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/5/)
- [6](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/6/)
- [7](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/7/)
- [8](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/volume/8/)

## Numbers

- [1](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/1/)
- [2](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/2/)
- [3](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/3/)
- [4](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/4/)
- [5](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/5/)
- [6](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/6/)
- [7](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/7/)
- [8](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/8/)
- [9](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/9/)
- [10](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/number/10/)

## Years

- [2016](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2016/)
- [2017](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2017/)
- [2018](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2018/)
- [2019](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2019/)
- [2020](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2020/)
- [2015](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2015/)
- [2021](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2021/)
- [2022](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2022/)
- [2023](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/publication_year/2023/)

## Event Categories

- [Affiliate Meetings](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/events/category/affiliate-meetings/)
- [Annual Meetings](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/events/category/annual-meetings/)
- [Deadlines](https://beta.iqsaweb.org/events/category/deadlines/)