The Koran

The Koran, literally meaning ‘The Recitation’ it is the central religious text for Muslims. Muslims believe the Koran was verbally revealed by God...

Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur'an Draws on...

The product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of lite...

“Abrahamic religion” has long been a buzzword in ecumenical discourse. It is the notion that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, despite their profou...

A fourteen centuries old consensus by Islamic religious authorities has upheld the belief that God has granted husbands the right to beat their wiv...

The Qur’an makes extensive use of older religious material, stories, and traditions that predate the origins of Islam, and there has long been a fi...

This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal approaches to the Qur’an and calls for a questioning of the interpretive credibili...

In Chapter 38:21-25, the Qur’an relates a very short narrative about the biblical King David’s seeking and receiving God’s forgiveness. The earlies...

Education and Curricular Perspectives in the Qur’an is a unique academic study that focuses on different perspectives of education curriculum in th...

This path-breaking book sets aside the traditional story of the life of Muhammad, and inquires into the internal history of the Qur'an itself. Draw...

This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-on...

This path-breaking book sets aside the traditional story of the life of Muhammad, and inquires into the internal history of the Qur'an itself. Draw...

Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary hist...

Winner, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association The novel, the literary adage has it, re...