Quran and Early Islam

European Interuniversity Certificate in Qur'anic Studies / Certificat Interuniversitaire Européen en études Coraniques

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-08-08T09:32:35Z

European Interuniversity Certificate in Qur'anic Studies 2026–2027
Overview
The European Interuniversity Certificate in Qur'anic Studies offers an interdisciplinary and academically rigorous approach to the study of the Qur'an, its historical context, textual formation, and traditions of interpretation. The programme brings together perspectives from history, philology, anthropology, religious studies, and theology. It is designed to provide participants with the methodological and (…)

- French Institutions

The Quran in the World. A History of Islam's Sacred Book

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-07-14T07:26:14Z

Fudge (Bruce), The Quran in the World: A History of Islam's Sacred Book, Princeton, PUP, 2027, 424 p. ISBN ‎ 978-0691261829
Author
Bruce Fudge is professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Qur'anic Hermeneutics and the translator of A Hundred and One Nights and Sonallah Ibrahim's The Turban and the Hat.
Presentation
The Quran, like most great books, has a history. It went from a largely oral recitation in a region with limited writing and literacy to being (…)

- Introductions on the Qur'an

Christian Translations of the Qurʾān and Polemics against Islam. Editions, Studies, and Digital Projects on Documenta Coranica Christiana

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-07-04T21:26:22Z

Ulbricht( Manolis) ed., Christian Translations of the Qurʾān and Polemics against Islam. Editions, Studies, and Digital Projects on Documenta Coranica Christiana, Leiden, Brill ("Documenta Coranica ; 6"), 2017, ? p. ISBN 978-90-04-77453-7
Editor
Manolis Ulbricht is a Byzantine studies scholar specializing in Christian-Muslim relations, Qur'anic translations, and Byzantine theology. Educated in Berlin and Athens, he has held research positions at Freie Universität Berlin, LMU Munich, and (…)

- Documenta Coranica (Brill)

A Study of "Tawriya" in the Qur'an. Exegesis, Rhetoric and the Reader

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-06-16T18:50:15Z

Rizzo (Luca), A Study of ›Tawriya‹ in the Qur'an. Exegesis, Rhetoric and the Reader, Berlin, De Gruyter, ("IQSA Studies in the Qurʾan ; 9") 2026, 270 p. ISBN 9783112227015
Author
Luca Rizzo is an independent researcher.
Presentation
How did premodern Muslim scholars of rhetoric and exegesis interpret ambiguous verses in the Qur'an, particularly those suggesting anthropomorphism? This book explores how the rhetorical device tawriya, or "double entendre," came to serve as a (…)

- IQSA Studies in the Qurʾan

Le commentaire du Coran par le soufi marocain Aḥmad Ibn ʿAjība

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-06-11T10:14:00Z

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)

Qur'anic Abrogation After Muhammad: The Eternal Flux

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-05-28T11:22:00Z

Toosi (Javad Fakhkhar), Qur'anic Abrogation After Muhammad: The Eternal Flux, London, Routledge, 2026, 208 p. ISBN 978-1041050414
Author
Javad Fakhkhar Toosi is an Islamic scholar and qualified jurist (Mujtahid) trained in the seminary; holder of a distinguished PhD degree, with 35 years of teaching and research experience in Islamic studies; author of 8 books in Arabic and Persian, and dozens of articles in English and Arabic.
Presentation
Challenging the notion of Islamic legal (…)

- Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy

Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan: From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories

Mehdi Azaiez — 2026-05-14T18:15:00Z

Bauer (Karen), Fatemi (Mohammed), Gleave (Robert), Stewart Devin J. eds., Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan: From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories, Leiden, Brill, 2026, 500 p. ISBN 978-90-04-75555-0
Editors
Karen Bauer is Associate Professor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Her research focuses on the Qur'an and its interpretation. Her books include Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge: 2015), An Anthology of (…)

- Ouvrages en anglais

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