People of The Books: Qur’an and The Bible
Stephen Burge on Gabriel Reynolds Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary, is a handsomely produced volume, and an intriguing
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Qur’an
Theorizing the Qurʾanic Miracle – By Bruce Fudge
Bruce Fudge on al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Rummānī, and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, Three Treatises on the Iʿjāz of the Qurʾān The first time I attempted to
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Making the Qurʾan Turkish: Translation and Power in the Ottoman Empire – By Micah Hughes
Micah Hughes on M. Brett Wilson’s Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism What could be more unassuming and unexceptional than translation?
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The Sound of Meaning – By Vanessa De Gifis
Vanessa De Gifis on Karen Bauer’s edited volume, Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis We have all heard the philosophical question: If
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The Ancient Origins of Qur’anic Laws – By Emran El-Badawi
Emran El-Badawi on Holger Zellentin’s The Qur’an’s Legal Culture Are the origins of the Qur’an’s laws and rituals traceable to a single ancient
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The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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Praying Ants and Prostrating Beasts – By George Archer
George Archer on Sarra Tlili’s Animals in the Qur’an The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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The Activist of Andalusia: Ibn Hazm of Cordoba – By Paul L. Heck
Paul L. Heck on Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of A Controversial Thinker Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and
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To Whom is the Qur’an Addressed? – By Whitney S. Bodman
Whitney S. Bodman responds to Rachel Friedman I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would
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