Quran and Early Islam

Le Codex Amrensis 22 Histoire d'un manuscrit attribué à ʿUthmān de la mosquée de ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ au Caire

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-05-06T13:30:00Z

Cellard (Éléonore), Le Codex Amrensis 22. Histoire d'un manuscrit attribué à ʿUthmān de la mosquée de ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ au Caire, Leiden, Brill, ("Text and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 27"), 2026, 250 p. ISBN 978-90-04-72196-8
Author
Éléonore Cellard, Ph.D. in Arabic Language, Literature, and Civilizations (2015, INALCO/EPHE, Paris), is a specialist in the history, palaeography, and codicology of early Qur'anic manuscripts. She has published Codex Amrensis 1 (Brill, 2018) as well as numerous (…)

- Texts and Studies on the Quran (Brill)

The Early Qur'an in Mecca: Apocalyptic Expectation at the Dawn of Islam

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-05-01T07:24:00Z

Farrin (Raymond. K), The Early Qur'an in Mecca: Apocalyptic Expectation at the Dawn of Islam, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, 375 p. ISBN 978-1009638524
Author
R. K. Farrin is Professor of Arabic at the American University of Kuwait. He is the author of Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry (2011) and Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text (2014), as well as numerous articles on classical Arabic poetry and (…)

- Ouvrages en anglais

The Qur'an, Surahs 1 and 2: A Historical and Literary Commentary

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-04-25T15:42:00Z

Sinai (Nicolai), The Qur'an, Surahs 1 and 2: A Historical and Literary Commentary, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2027, 448 p. ISBN 9780691193939
Author
Nicolai Sinai is professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford and holder of the Sheikh Zayed Lecturership in Islamic Studies. He is the author of Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (Princeton) and The Qur'an: A Historical-Critical Introduction.
Presentation
This historical and literary commentary on (…)

- Important Studies

Before the Qur'an: Material Sources at the Advent of Muslim Scripture

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-04-24T11:24:00Z

Dost (Suleyman), Before the Qur'an: Material Sources at the Advent of Muslim Scripture, Edinburg, Edinburg University Press, ("Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology"), 2026, 288 p. ISBN 9781399528641
Author
Suleyman Dost is Assistant Professor of Late Antiquity and Early Islam at the University of Toronto. He works primarily on inscriptions and other documentary sources from late antique Arabia and Ethiopia. His research also covers the historical context in which the (…)

- Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology

Gender Relations in the Qur'an: Conceptualising Space and Male-Female Interaction

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-04-22T12:16:00Z

(Karim F.) Redhwan, Gender Relations in the Qur'an. Conceptualising Space and Male–Female Interaction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2026, 288 p. ISBN 9781399561341
Author
Dr Redhwan Karim is Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Course Leader for the BA Islamic Studies program at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He is the author of History of the Qur'an: Approaches and Explorations (2024), and various peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Journal of Islamic and (…)

- Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology

Epigraphy and Theory in the Study of Early Islam

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-04-20T16:34:00Z

Lindstedt (Ilkka), Epigraphy and Theory in the Study of Early Islam, London, Routledge, ("Variorum Collected Studies"), 2026, 324 p. ISBN 9781041146520
Author
Ilkka Lindstedt (Ph.D.), is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki. He has authored a large number of academic studies on pre-Islamic Arabia, early Islam, Arabic historiography, and epigraphy. His previous publications include Muhammad and His Followers in Context: The Religious Map (…)

- Routledge - Variorum Collected Studies

Illuminating Scriptural Connections: A Qur'anic Commentary on the Torah

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-04-17T12:00:53Z

Sopher (Rick), Galadari (Abdullah) eds., Illuminating Scriptural Connections: A Qur'anic Commentary on the Torah, Melrose Park, Jewish Publication Society, 2016, 312 p. ISBN 978-0827615731
Authors
Rick Sopher is a key figure in interfaith scriptural dialogue, especially known for fostering relations between Jewish and Muslim communities. He is a fellow of the Woolf Institute, an academic institute in Cambridge, England, dedicated to the study of interfaith relations between Jews, (…)

- Ouvrages en anglais

Le commentaire du Coran par le soufi marocain Aḥmad Ibn ʿAjība

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-04-09T10:14:10Z

Elsayed (Mohamed Fadel), Le commentaire du Coran par le soufi marocain Aḥmad Ibn ʿAjība, Paris, Vrin, ("Études musulmanes"), 2026, 224 p. ISBN 978-2-7116-3258-9
Author
Mohamed Fadel Elsayed est docteur de l'Université de Strasbourg et maître de conférences en islamologie à l'Université d'al-Azhar (Le Caire).
Presentation
Cet ouvrage présente une étude d'al-Baḥr al-madīd fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-majīd (« La mer étendue – Commentaire du glorieux Coran »), exégèse coranique intégrale (…)

- Etudes Musulmanes (Vrin)

The Forgotten Qur'ans of the Eastern Islamic World: Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, 11th-12th Centuries

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-03-28T20:04:28Z

Karame (Alya), The Forgotten Qur'ans of the Eastern Islamic World. Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, 11th-12th Centuries CE, Edinburgh, ("Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art"), 2025, 400 p. ISBN 9781399512411
Author
Alya Karame is a Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut. She specialises in Islamic art and material culture, with a focus on manuscript studies. In 2023, she was a fellow of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University to be (…)

- Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

Tacit Textuality: Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-03-19T15:26:28Z

Nieber (Hanna), Tacit Textuality: Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2027, 256 p. ISBN 978-1512830088
Author
Hanna Nieber is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has previously published work in the Max Planck Research magazine.
Presentation
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. It (…)

- Ouvrages en anglais