Communities of the Qur’an

Emran El-Badawi is Associate Professor and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Houston. Paula Sanders is Professor of History and Director of the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

• Foreword Reza Aslan IntroductionEmran El-Badawi and Paula Sanders PART I: COMMUNITIES OF CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE1 African-American Communities of the Qur’anAminah Beverly Al-Deen 2 Nizari Ismaili Engagements with the Qur’an: the Khojas of South AsiaAli Asani 3 The Reception of the Qur’an in Popular Sufism in Indonesia: tadabbur among the Ma‘iyah CommunityLien Iffah Naf’atu Fina and Ahmad Rafiq PART II: BETWEEN GENDER AND COMMUNITY4 Musawah: Gender Equity through Qur’anic DiscourseAmina Wadud 5 The Reception of the Qur’an in the LGBTQ Muslim CommunityScott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle PART III: THE SILENT, SPEAKING AND LIVING WORD6 The Speaking Qur’an and the Praise of the Imam: the Memory and Practice of the Qur’an in the Twelver Shia TraditionSajjad Rizvi 7 The Qur’an and the Baha’i FaithTodd Lawson PART IV: COMMUNITIES OF TEXT AND TRADITION8 How the Qur’an Shapes the Sunni CommunityIngrid Mattson 9 The Qur’an and the Ahmadiyya Community: an OverviewMujeeb Ur Rahman 10 Why the Qur’anists are the Solution: a DeclarationAhmed Subhy Mansour AfterwordReuven Firestone Index

‘This lovely collection describes ten different interpretive communities, both Muslim and non-Muslim, of the Qur’an. It helps us to better understand the text that is central to the world’s Muslims, while illuminating their own diversity.’