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
Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
The Case of the Discovery of the “Birmingham Qur’ān” In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found
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The Qur’an Illuminated
Yael Rice on Islamic Book and Manuscript Arts in America In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that
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The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism – by Peter Gottschalk
The sixth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration,
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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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First Impressions #59: The Study Qur’an
Kristian Petersen talks with Caner Dagli of College of the Holy Cross, Maria Dakake of George Mason University, and Joseph Lumbard of American
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MRBlog | The Birmingham Quran and the Palimpsest of History
By Aaron W. Hughes We like nothing more than a really big story about religion. If we are religious, it makes us feel good
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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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First Impressions #19: Michael Birkel
Art Remillard talks with Michael Birkel about his new book, Qur’an in Conversation. Birkel is Professor of Religion at Earlham College in Indiana. Listen
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