Qur'anic Studies Today

Michael A. Sells is Barrows Professor of the History and Literature of Islam and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Angelika Neuwirth is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin.

• Introduction; 1 Wansbrough, Bultmann, and the Theory of Variant Traditions in the Qurʾān – Devin J. Stewart; 2 Lot’s Wife: Late Antique Paradigms of Sense and the Qurʾān – Nora K. Schmid; 3 The Sign of Jonah: Transformations and Interpretations of the Jonah Story in the Qurʾān – Hannalies Koloska; 4 End of Hope: Sūras 10–15, Despair, and a Way out of Mecca – Walid A. Saleh; 5 The Casting: A Close Hearing of Sūrat TāHā 9–79 – Michael A. Sells; 6 Qurʾānic Studies and Historical-Critical Philology: The Qurʾān’s Staging, Penetrating, and finally Eclipsing of Biblical Tradition – Angelika Neuwirth; 7 The Sunna of Our Messengers: The Qurʾān’s Paradigm for Messengers and Prophet: A Reading of Sūrat ash-Shuʿarāʾ– Sidney H. Griffith; 8 Textual and Paratextual meaning in the Recited Qurʾān: An Analysis of a Performance of Sūrat al-Furqān by Sheikh Mishari Rashid Alafasy – Lauren E. Osborne; 9 The Qurʾān’s Theopoetic Manifesto – Ghassan el Masri; 10 The Qurʾān between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism - Holger M. Zellentin; 11 Reinterpreting the Qurʾānic Criticism of Other Religions – Mun’im Sirry