Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin

Majid Daneshgar, Ph.D. (2013) in Religion, University of Malaya, is a lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published on modern studies of the Qurʾān, modern Islamic exegetical works and Malay-Indonesian Qurʾanic Studies. His book The Qurʾān in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, co-edited with Peter Riddell and Andrew Rippin, was published in June 2016. Walid A. Saleh, Ph.D. (2001) in Religious Studies, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published on the history of tafsīr, the Qurʾān and Islamic apocalyptic literature. His books The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition and In Defense of the Bible were published by Brill in 2004 and 2008 respectively.

• Table of Contents:- Preface- Acknowledgments- List of figures and tables- List of contributorsPart IIslamic Exegesis and Tradition: Formative and Classical Period-“A Plaything for Kings”: ʿĀʾisha’s Ḥadīth, Ibn al-Zubayr, and Rebuilding the Kaʿba Gerald Hawting -Remnants of an Old Tafsīr Tradition? The Exegetical Accounts of ʿUrwa b. al-ZubayrAndreas Görke -Muqātil on Zayd and Zaynab: “The sunna of Allāh concerning those who passed away before” (Q 33:38)Gordon Nickel-Sabab/Asbāb al-Nuzūl as a Technical Term: Its Emergence and Application in the Islamic SourcesRoberto Tottoli -Laylat al-Qadr as Sacred Time: Sacred Cosmology in Sunnī Kalām and TafsīrArnold Yasin Mol -Is there Covenant Theology in Islam?Tariq Jaffer Part IIThe Qurʾān and Qurʾanic Studies: Issues and Themes -The Qurʾān’s Enchantment of the World. “Antique” Narratives Refashioned in Arab Late Antiquity Angelika Neuwirth -Messianism and the Shadow of History: Judaism and Islam in a Time of UncertaintyAaron W. Hughes -Some Reflections on Borrowing, Influence, and the Entwining of Jewish and Islamic Traditions; or, What the Image of a Calf Might DoMichael E. Pregill-Inheriting Egypt: The Israelites and the Exodus in the Meccan QurʾānNicolai Sinai -Re-examining Textual Boundaries: Towards a Form-Critical Sūrat al-KahfMarianna Klar -Philology and the Meaning of Sūrat al-BurūjBruce Fudge -A Flawed Prophet? Noah in the Qurʾān and Qurʾanic CommentaryGabriel S. Reynolds Part IIIIslam, Qurʾān, and Tafsīr: Modern Discussions -An Asiatic and Moslem Jesus: Deracinating and Reracinating Jesus by Drew AliHerbert Berg -Reading the Qurʾān Chronologically: An Aid to Discourse Coherence and Thematic DevelopmentPeter G. Riddell -The Fig, the Olive, and the Cycles of Prophethood: Q 95:1–3 and the Image of History in Early 20th-Century Qurʾanic ExegesisJohanna Pink -The “Scientific Miracle of the Qurʾān”: Map and AssessmentStefano Bigliardi -Locating the “Esoteric” in Islamic StudiesFeras Hamza -Western Non-Muslim Qurʾanic Studies in Muslim Academic Contexts: On Rippin’s Works from the Middle East to the Malay-Indonesian WorldMajid Daneshgar - A Concluding AppreciationJane McAuliffe - Andrew Rippin : La Sainte Sagesse et Le Saint Silence (Ἁγία Σοφία, Ἁγία σιγή)Claude Gilliot- Appendix: Publications by Andrew Rippin- Index

"It has been possible here only to mention some of the many excellent essays in this volume, which is both a rich contribution to scholarship and a fitting tribute to an outstanding scholar." - David Marshall, in: Islamochristiana 39 (2023), 155-158