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The Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR) is an online companion to the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA). RQR features reviews of cutting-edge scholarship in the field of qur’anic studies and allied fields.


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Vol 5 (2019): Review of Qur’anic Research

Published: 2019-02-22

Reviews

Review of Richard SERRANO, Qur'an and the Lyric Imperative (New York: Lexington Books, 2016)

Majd Al-Mallah
Abstract 8 | PDF Downloads 7
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Review of Asma HILALI, The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qur'an in the First Centuries AH (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

Eléonore Cellard
Abstract 76 | PDF Downloads 63
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Review of Khaleel MOHAMMED, David in the Muslim Tradition: The Bathsheba Affair (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015)

Sami Helewa, S.J.
Abstract 11 | PDF Downloads 45
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Review of Seyfeddin KARA, In Search of 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib’s Codex: History and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qur'an (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2018)

Maria De Cillis
Abstract 13 | PDF Downloads 9
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Review of Harald MOTZKI, Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Ishaq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qur'an Exegesis: A Study of Early Ibn 'Abbas Traditions (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017)

Stephen R. Burge
Abstract 23 | PDF Downloads 20
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Review of Michel CUYPERS, A Qur'anic Apocalypse: A Reading of the Thirty-Three Last Surahs of the Qur'an (Atlanta: Lockwood, 2018)

David Cook
Abstract 13 | PDF Downloads 10
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Review of Abdur Raheem KIDWAI, God’s Word, Man’s Interpretations: A Critical Study of the 21st Century Translations of the Quran (New Delhi: Viva Books, 2018)

Suleyman Dost
Abstract 16 | PDF Downloads 14
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Review of Francisco DEL RÍO SÁNCHEZ (ed.), Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018)

Gabriel Said Reynolds
Abstract 15 | PDF Downloads 10
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Review of Juan COLE, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (New York: Nation Books, 2018)

Ayman S. Ibrahim
Abstract 43 | PDF Downloads 41
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Review of Karim SAMJI, The Qur'an: A Form-Critical History (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018)

Devin J. Stewart
Abstract 138 | PDF Downloads 72
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