Qur’an

Categorized as Terms

Qur’an

Walid Saleh

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Related Khamseen Video:

Sumru Belger Krody, “Prayer Carpets,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 11 May 2021.

Marika Sardar, “The Gwalior Qur’an,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.

References:

Cook, Michael. The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Izutsu, Toshihiko. Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1966.

Nelson, Kristina. The Art of Reciting the Qur’an, 2nd ed. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001.

Neuwirth, Angelika. The Qur’an. Vol. 1: Text and Commentary: Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy, trans. Samuel Wilder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

Pink, Johanna. Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities. Sheffield: Equinox, 2019.

Robinson, Neal. Discovering the Qur’an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text. London: SCM Press, 1996.

Web Resources:

Qu’ran: https://quran.com/en

Citation:

Walid Saleh, “Qur’an,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 12 December 2023.

Walid Saleh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist of the Qur’an, the history of its interpretation, and the gloss tradition in medieval Islam. He is the author of two books, including The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition (Brill, 2004). He is the recipient of a Konrad Adenauer Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation and a New Directions Mellon Foundation Fellowship, and he also has served as Al-Qasimi Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at Exeter University.  He is currently working on a history of the Qur’an commentary tradition.