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 ...
Mary in the Qur'an: A Literary Reading
1st Edition
By Hosn Abboud
November 07, 2016
Providing an analysis of the complete story of Mary in its liturgical, narrative and rhetorical contexts, this literary reading is a prerequisite to any textual reading of the Qur’an whether juristic, theological, or otherwise. intertextuality between the Old Testament, New Testament and the Qur’...
The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions
1st Edition
By Emran El-Badawi
March 03, 2016
This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars, including al-Biqā‘ī (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505)...
New Perspectives on the Qur'an: The Qur'an in its Historical Context 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel Reynolds
March 07, 2014
This book continues the work of The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’ān and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’ān’s own conversation with the religions and literatures...
Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary
1st Edition
By Bruce Fudge
March 07, 2014
The work of the twelfth-century Shi’ite scholar al-Tabrisi, Majma’ al-bayan, is one of the most important works of medieval commentary on the Qur’an, and is still in use today. This work is an in-depth case study of Islamic exegetical methods and an exploration of the nature of scriptural ...
Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets: Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
1st Edition
By Marianna Klar
June 24, 2013
Al-Tha’labi was a renowned Qur’anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his ‘Ara’is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya’ genre. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to explore the ...