Routledge Studies in the Qur'an
About the Book Series
In its examination of critical issues in the scholarly study of the Qur'an and its commentaries, this series targets the disciplines of archaeology, history, textual history, anthropology, theology and literary criticism. The contemporary relevance of the Qur'an in the Muslim world, its role in politics and in legal debates are also dealt with, as are debates surrounding Quranic studies in the Muslim world.
Arabic, Qurʾān, and Poetic License: Reciting the Word of God
1st Edition
By Shady Hekmat Nasser
March 31, 2025
This book examines the similarities between the Qurʾān and ancient Arabic poetry, analyzed through the framework of Arabic grammar prior to their standardization and subsequent development into distinct genres. Of central relevance is the relationship between the Qurʾān and Arabic poetry, and how ...
The Composition of Sūrat Maryam: Rhetorical Analysis
1st Edition
By Michel Cuypers, A.H. Mathias Zahniser
December 30, 2024
This book studies the composition or structure of Sūrat Maryam – the 19th sūra of the Qur’an – according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric. Sūrat Maryam has, in recent decades, been the subject of numerous studies by scholars of Islamology and Qur’anology. The general structure of the sūra, ...
Qur'an Translation in Indonesia: Scriptural Politics in a Multilingual State
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna Pink
December 18, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive survey of Qur’an translation in Indonesia – the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world with a highly diverse, multilingual society. Delving into the linguistic and political dimensions of this field, the contributors – many of whom are Indonesian ...
The Qur'an Heard: Sound Poetics in Three American Sermons
1st Edition
By Timur R. Yuskaev
November 29, 2024
For many Muslims, there is an inseparable connection between sound and meaning, particularly when it comes to Islamic verse and scripture. This provides fertile ground for a comparative study across traditions and forms. Timur Yuskaev offers a meditation on the Qur’an and human sensibilities, ...
Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Fudge, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Christian Lange, Sarah Bowen Savant
May 27, 2024
William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together 17 contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work. Contributions to this collection, by his colleagues and students, treat many different ...
The Qur'an in South Asia: Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India
1st Edition
By Kamran Bashir
May 31, 2023
The book investigates modern Qur’an commentaries in South Asia and engages with how Muslim scholars have imagined and assessed their past intellectual heritage. The research is focused on British India from the time of the Mutiny of 1857 to the moment of the Partition of united India in 1947. ...
Structural Dividers in the Qur'an
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianna Klar
January 09, 2023
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 in the concept of the surah as a unity and, with it, the division of complete surahs into ...
The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition
1st Edition
By Susan Gunasti
December 18, 2020
The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur’an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey.The work explores the relationship between ...
The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins
1st Edition
Edited
By Holger M. Zellentin
December 18, 2020
This volume explores the relationship between the Qur’an and the Jewish and Christian traditions, considering aspects of continuity and reform. The chapters examine the Qur’an’s retelling of biblical narratives, as well as its reaction to a wide array of topics that mark Late Antique ...
Qur'anic Studies Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Angelika Neuwirth, Michael Sells
December 12, 2019
Qur'ānic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'ān. Combining theoretical and methodological clarity with close readings of qur’ānic texts, these contributions provide close ...
Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview: Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Rhetoric of Moral Reform in the Caliphate of al-Ma'un
1st Edition
By Vanessa De Gifis
December 12, 2019
Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʾān’s meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʾānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the ʿAbbāsid Caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813-833), whose rule ...
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation
1st Edition
Edited
By Majid Daneshgar, Peter G. Riddell, Andrew Rippin
April 16, 2019
The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world. The essays in The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World resolve this, aiming to expand our ...