Auto-Referentiality of the Qur’anic Text

Auto-Referentiality of the Qur’anic Text

Boiliveau_Coran par lui meme coverIn 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 the ancient exegetical principle of explaining the Qurʾan by the Qurʾan with a rigorous modern critical method.

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Scriptural Hermeneutics in Sunni Muslim Juristic Thought

misquoting muhammad coverIn 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 times have selectively appropriated the scriptures in their debates.

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On Semitic Rhetorical Analysis of the Qur’an

Cover of Michel Cuypers, La composition du Coran (Librairie Gabalda, 2012).

Cover of Michel Cuypers, La composition du Coran (Librairie Gabalda, 2012).

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.

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Review of Qur’anic 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 a member of IQSA, we welcome you to join us by completing a membership form HERE. Please join today to begin enjoying RQR and additional member benefits!

Powers_Zayd_cover from publ pgThe first review for RQR is Sean W. Anthony (University of Oregon) on David S. Powers, Zayd (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2014).

Forthcoming reviews include Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame) on Michel Cuypers, La composition du Coran (Paris: Librairie Gabalda, 2012) and Mohamad Ballan (University of Chicago) on Jonathan A. C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choice of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (London: Oneworld, 2014).

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cropped-untitled-12.pngIQSA 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 $25 (USD), among the lowest of its kind!

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