Books in the Qur'anic Studies Series series

Whilst many scholars have recognised that words play an important part in interpretation, there are few studies of how exegetes actually approach these questions. This volume of essays addresses this gap in the scholarship, examining the different ways in which Muslim exegetes have handled words in the Qur'an.

An edition and commentary of selected passages of the manuscript known as the 'Sanaa Palimpsest'. The palimpsest provides, in both the upper and lower texts, evidence for how the Qur'an was trasmitted, taught, and written down in the first centuries of Islam.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive attempt at describing the genre of Qur'anic exegesis in its broader intellectual context. Its aim is to provide a framework for understanding the boundaries of tafsir and its interaction with other disciplines of learning, as well as the subgenres and internal divisions within the genre.

A scholarly edition of the twelfth-century Qur'anic commentary by Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Karim al- Shahrastani. Dr Toby Mayer presents the Arabic text with English translation, introduction, and contextual notes. Shahrastani uses a form of linguistic analysis to unearth the esoteric meanings of the Qur'anic verses.

A scholarly edition of the twelfth century Qur'anic commentary by Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Karim al- Shahrastani. Dr Toby Mayer presents the Arabic text with English translation, introduction and contextual notes. Shahrastani uses a form of linguistic analysis to unearth the esoteric meanings of the Qur'anic verses.

This anthology of Qur'anic commentaries focuses on interpretations given to six key verses of the Qur'an by scholars from the principal Muslim denominations, demonstrating the plurality of voices that have existed in Islam from the 8th century to the present day. This volume, the first in a series, examines theological concerns with God's nature.

A collection of essays by leading scholars of the Qur'an and Qur'an commentary (tafsir), looking at the theoretical aims, practical methods, and contexts of tafsir from 2nd/8th-9th/15th centuries. The volume includes primary source material, in the form of editions and translations of the introductions to two works of tafsir.

This book examines how early juridical and theological debates on the translatability of the Qur'an informed the development of Persian translations and commentaries of the Qur'an. It offers new insight into the development of Qur'anic hermeneutics and its relationship to vernacular cultures, religious elites, education, and dynastic authority.

This book is the first extensive examination of the medieval Qur'an commentary known as the Lata'if al-Isharat and the first critical biography of its author, the Sufi spiritual master Abu'l-Qasim al-Qushayri.

This fully illustrated collection of essays explores creative expressions of the Qur'an in a wide range of artistic media. The contributions span four continents and cover topics from medieval coins and early illuminated copies of the Qur'an to contemporary painting.

This work explores how the Qur'an became a modern book, and examines the debates surrounding Islamic national identity in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The volume focuses on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur'anic exegesis. The work shows how it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions and explores the differences and similarities of these approaches.

The author explores the interplay between scriptural exegesis and mystical doctrine in a twelfth-century Sufi commentary on the Qur'an. Previously little-known outside the Persian-speaking world, it is increasingly recognized as a key work in the development of Sufi Qur'anic interpretation.

This collection explores the importance of the Qur'an in the religious, artistic, political, and intellectual discourses in modern and contemporary Iran from the nineteenth century to the present.

Covering a period from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, this multidisciplinary volume examines Muslim engagements with the Qur'an in a variety of geographical locations in sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania.