This academic website is dedicated to Qur’anic studies. It offers an updated bibliographic and informational watch of the discipline.
Publication "Gender and Muslim Construction of Exegetical Authority : A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Quran Commentary" by Aisha Geissinger (June 2015)
Geissinger (Aisha), Gender and Muslim Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Quran Commentary, Leiden, Brill, ("Islamic History and Civilization; 117"), 2005, (…)
Three audio records from the international colloquium "Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines"
Presentation Séance du 4 mars 2011 Dans le cadre du Colloque international : « Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines », placé sous le patronage de l’Académie des Inscriptions et (…)
Award to Dr Boisliveau for her book on the Qur’an (27 february 2015)
The book BOISLIVEAU (Anne-Sylvie), Le Coran par lui-meme, Vocabulaire et argumentation du discours coranique autoréférentiel, Leyde, Brill, 2013, 460 p. ISBN 9789004250642 The author (…)
Publication of "A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141) Īḍāḥ al-ḥikma bi-aḥkām al-ʿibra -Wisdom Deciphered, the Unseen Discovered" edited by Gerhard Bowering & Yousef Casewit (June 2015)
Ibn Barrajān (d. 536/1141), A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141) Īḍāḥ al-ḥikma bi-aḥkām al-ʿibra -Wisdom Deciphered, the Unseen Discovered-, edited by Gerhard Bowering (…)
Publication of "When Christians First Met Muslims A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam" by Michael Philip Penn (April 2015)
Penn (Michael Philip), When Christians First Met Muslims A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam, Oakland, University of California Press, 290 p. ISBN: 9780520284944 The author (…)
"The Composition of the Qur’an: Rhetorical Analysis" by Michel Cuypers (May 2015)
Cuypers (Michel), The Composition of the Qur’an: Rhetorical Analysis, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, 224 p. ISBN 978-1474227483 Remark: this book is a translation of "La Composition du (…)
Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’ān, Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses by Karen Bauer (February 2015)
Bauer (Karen), Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’ān, Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses, Cambridge, ("Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization"), 2015. ISBN 9781107041523 Bauer (Karen), (…)
Publication of "God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran" by Navid Kermani (February 2015)
Kermani (Navid), God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran, Hoboken, N.J, John Wiley, 2015, 400 p. ISBN 978-0745651675 (English version of "Gott ist shön. Das ästhetische Erleben (…)
Islam and Modern Muslim Thinkers (Seminar)
This 12-week seminar is a survey of the varied ways in which modern Muslim thinkers have grappled with challenging modern questions. Based on selected topics as such as Religion, State, Gender, (…)
Publication of "From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity and Politics after the Arab Conquest" by Maged S. A. Mikhail (January 2015)
Mikhail (Maged S. A.), From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity and Politics after the Arab Conquest, IB Tauris, ("Library of Middle East History"), 2014, 416 p. ISBN 9781848859388 (…)