Routledge Studies in the Qur'an (Series)
Routledge Studies in the Qur'an is a book series published by Routledge about critical issues in the scholarly study of the Qur'an and its commentaries.
Target of the series
This series targets the disciplines of archaeology, history, textual history, anthropology, theology and literary criticism. The contemporary relevance of the Qur'an in the Muslim world, its role in politics and in legal debates are also dealt with, as are debates surrounding Quranic studies in the Muslim world.
The series titles
Routledge has published 23 Titles[1] in this Series so far that includes:
1. Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham, 1st Edition, Edited By Bruce Fudge, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Christian Lange, Sarah Bowen Savant, June 07, 2022
William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together seventeen contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work Contributions to this collection, by his colleagues and students, treat many ...
2. The Qur'an in South Asia: Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India, 1st Edition, By Kamran Bashir, September 21, 2021
The book investigates modern Qur’an commentaries in South Asia and engages with how Muslim scholars have imagined and assessed their past intellectual heritage. The research is focused on British India from the time of the Mutiny of 1857 to the moment of the Partition of united India in 1947. ...
3. Structural Dividers in the Qur'an, 1st Edition, Edited By Marianna Klar, December 04, 2020
This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur’anic surahs. Recent academic studies of the Qur’an have taken an increasing interest in the concept of the surah as a unity and, with it, the division of complete surahs into ...
4. The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins, 1st Edition, Edited By Holger M. Zellentin, April 01, 2019
This volume explores the relationship between the Qur’an and the Jewish and Christian traditions, considering aspects of continuity and reform. The chapters examine the Qur’an’s retelling of biblical narratives, as well as its reaction to a wide array of topics that mark Late Antique ...
5. The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition, 1st Edition, By Susan Gunasti, March 18, 2019 The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur’an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey. The work explores the relationship between ...
6. Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century, 1st Edition, By Majid Daneshgar, August 16, 2017 Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many previously neglected matters regarding Islam and science, his publications shocked the Cairo ...
7. Mary in the Qur'an: A Literary Reading,1st Edition, By Hosn Abboud, November 07, 2016
Providing an analysis of the complete story of Mary in its liturgical, narrative and rhetorical contexts, this literary reading is a prerequisite to any textual reading of the Qur’an whether juristic, theological, or otherwise. intertextuality between the Old Testament, New Testament and the Qur’...
8. The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, 1st Edition, Edited By Majid Daneshgar, Peter G. Riddell, Andrew Rippin, June 21, 2016
The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world. The essays in The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World resolve this, aiming to expand our ...
9. Qur'ānic Studies Today, 1st Edition, Edited By Angelika Neuwirth, Michael A Sells, April 22, 2016
Qur'ānic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'ān. Combining theoretical and methodological clarity with close readings of qur’ānic texts, these contributions provide close...
10. The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, 1st Edition, By Emran El-Badawi, March 03, 2016
This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars, including al-Biqā‘ī (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505)...
11. Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview: Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Rhetoric of Moral Reform in the Caliphate of al-Ma'ūn, 1st Edition, By Vanessa De Gifis, April 16, 2014
Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʾān’s meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʾānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the ʿAbbāsid Caliph al-Maʾmūn (r. 813-833), whose rule ...
12. Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an: God's Arguments, 1st Edition, By Rosalind Ward Gwynne, June 09, 2009
Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the ...
13. New Perspectives on the Qur'an: The Qur'an in its Historical Context 2, 1st Edition, Edited By Gabriel Said Reynolds, March 07, 2014 This book continues the work of The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’ān and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’ān’s own conversation with the religions and literatures...
14. Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary,1st Edition,By Bruce Fudge, March 07, 2014 The work of the twelfth-century Shi’ite scholar al-Tabrisi, Majma’ al-bayan, is one of the most important works of medieval commentary on the Qur’an, and is still in use today. This work is an in-depth case study of Islamic exegetical methods and an exploration of the nature of scriptural ...
15. Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran, 1st Edition, By Issa J Boullata, June 08, 2009 This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments of it belonging to one historical period of its revelation; these studies concentrate ...
16. Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets: Temptation, Responsibility and Loss , 1st Edition, By Marianna Klar, June 24, 2013 Al-Tha’labi was a renowned Qur’anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his ‘Ara’is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya’ genre. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to explore the ...
17. The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period, 1st Edition, By Herbert Berg, April 29, 2009 The most important debate in Islamic origins is that of the reliability of the lists of transmitters (isnads) that are said to guarantee the authenticity of the materials to which they are attached. Many scholars have come to the conclusion that most traditions (hadiths), which claim to preserve ...
18. Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature, 1st Edition, By Roberto Tottoli, July 24, 2009 Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur'anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all the major scholarly literature on the subject and with the Qur'anic concept of prophetology. Part 2 is a history and study of the general Muslim literature dealing...
19. Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis, 1st Edition, By Brannon M. Wheeler, April 29, 2009 Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the ...
20. The Qur'an and its Biblical Subtext, 1st Edition, By Gabriel Said Reynolds, March 15, 2012
This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur’ān must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture. The Qur’ān, in its use of allusions, ...
21. Textual Relations in the Qur'an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure, 1st Edition, By Salwa M. El-Awa, June 09, 2009
Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of linguistics and Qur'anic studies. The Qur'an contains many long suras covering diverse topics but with no apparent common context within which such variety ...
22. The Qur’an in its Historical Context, 1st Edition, Edited By Gabriel Said Reynolds, April 17, 2009
Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur’anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages of the Qur’an in an original manner, ...
23. Sufi Commentaries on the Qur'an in Classical Islam, 1st Edition, By Kristin Sands, August 01, 2008
Meeting the ever increasing interest in Islam and Sufism, this book is the first comprehensive study of Sufi Qur’anic commentaries and includes translations of many writings previously unavailable in English. It examines the shared hermeneutical assumptions of Sufi writers and the diversity in ...
Authors of the series
The authors[2] participating in this series are as follows:
1. Andrew Rippin, Freie Universitat, Berlin
2. Angelika Neuwirth, Freie Universitat, Berlin
3. Brannon M. Wheeler, Université de Genève, Switzerland
4. Bruce Fudge, Université de Genève, Switzerland
5. Christian Lange, Universiteit van Utrecht, The Netherlands
6. Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston, USA
7. Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame, USA
8. Herbert Berg, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
9. Holger M. Zellentin, University of Toronto, Canada
10. Hosn Abboud, University of Toronto, Canada
11. Issa J Boullata, McGill University
12. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, USA
13. Kamran Bashir, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan
14. Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College, USA
15. Majid Daneshgar, University of Otago
16. Marianna Klar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
17. Michael A Sells, Divinity School, University of Chicago
18. Peter G. Riddell, Melbourne School of Theology
19. Roberto Tottoli, University of Tenessee, USA
20. Rosalind Ward Gwynne, University of Tenessee, USA
21. Salwa M. El-Awa, University of Birmingham, UK
22. Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
23. Susan Gunasti, University of Chicago, USA
24. Vanessa De Gifis, University of Chicago, USA