Resources


The Structure and Literary Coherence of the Qurʾān

1. Angelika Neuwirth, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage

2. Angelika Neuwirth, The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy

3. Islam Dayeh, Al-Hawamim: Intertexuality and Coherence in Meccan Surahs

4. Jawad Anwar Qureshi, Ring Composition in Surat Yusuf (12)

5. Mustansir Mir, The Sura as Unity: A Twentieth Century Development in Qur'anic Exegesis

6. Neal Robinson, Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text

7. Neal Robinson, Surat Al Imran and Those with the Greatest Claim to Abraham

8. Neal Robinson, The Dynamics of Surat Al Imran (Q 3)

9. Nicolai Sinai, The Qur'an: A Historical Critical Introduction

10. Nicolai Sinai, Review Essay: ‘Going Round in Circles’: Michel Cuypers, The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical Analysis, and Raymond Farrin, Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text

11. Nevin Reda, The al-Baqarah Crescendo: Understanding the Qurʾān's Style, Narrative Structure and Running Themes

12. Raymond Farrin, Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: A Study of Symettry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text

13. Salwa El-Awa, Textual Relations in the Qur'an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure

14. Walid Saleh, End of Hope: Suras 10-15, Despair and a Way Out of Mecca

15. Walid Saleh, Early Medinan Suras: The Birth of Politics in the Qur'an


Narratives in the Qurʾān


Qurʾānic Eschatology (the end-times)


Early Muslim identity


Pre-Islamic Arabia

1. Ahmad al-Jallad, Ancient Allah: An Epigraphic Recontruction

2. Ahmad al-Jallad and Hythem Sidky, A Paleo-Arabic inscription of a Companion of Muhammad?

3. Ahmad al-Jallad and Hythem Sidky, A Paleo-Arabic inscription on a route north of Ta'if

4. Ahmad al-Jallad, The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction based on the Safaitic Inscriptions

5. Christian Robin, The Judaism of the Ancient Kingdom of Himyar in Arabia: A Discreet Conversion

6. Patricia Crone, The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters

7. Marijn van Putten, The Development of the Hijazi Orthography

8. Nicolai Sinai, Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler: Allah in pre-Islamic poetry

9. Robert Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam

10. Suleyman Dost, Before the Qur'an: Material Sources at the advent of Muslim Scripture


The Transmission and History of the Qurʾān

1. Behnam Sadeghi and Mohsen Goudarzi, Sana'a 1 and the Origins of the Qurʾān

2. Francois Deroche, The One and the Many: The Early History of the Qur'an

3. Hythem Sidky, Consonantal Dotting and the Oral Qur'an

4. Marijn van Putten, "The Grace of God" as evidence for a written Uthmanic archetype

5. Mohammad Mustafa al-Azami, The History of the Qur'anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation

6. Nicolai Sinai, The Qur'an: A Historical Critical Introduction

7. Nicolai Sinai, When did the consonantal skeleton of the Qur'an reach closure?

8. Seyfeddin Kara, The Integrity of the Qur'an: Sunni and Shi'i Historical Narratives

9. Yasin Dutton, Orality, Literacy and the Seven Aḥruf Hadith

10. Yasir Qadhi, An Alternative Opinion on the Reality of the Seven Aḥruf and its relationship with the qirāʾāt

11. Yasir Qadhi, An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qur'ān


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