Andrew Rippin (d. 2016) was the Emeritus Professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was one of the world's leading scholars on the Qur'ān. Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He is a leading scholar of Ṣūfism with a focus on Rūmī.

• List of Contributors viiiPreface xiAndrew RippinIntroduction 1Jawid MojaddediPart I Orientation 51 Introducing 7Tamara Sonn2 Discovering 23Christopher Buck3 Contextualizing 43Abdullah SaeedPart II Text 594 Linguistic Structure 61Salwa El‐Awa5 Patterns of Address 82Rosalind Ward Gwynne6 Language 97Mustansir Mir7 Poetry and Language 117Navid Kermani8 Foreign Vocabulary 130Michael Carter9 Structure and the Emergence of Community 151Angelika Neuwirth10 Sacrality and Collection 171Aliza Shnizer11 Written Transmission 184François Déroche12 Context: Muḥammad 200Herbert Berg13 Context: ʿUmar b. al‐Khaṭṭāb 218Avraham HakimPart III Content 23514 God 237Andrew Rippin15 Prophets and Prophethood 248Uri Rubin16 Moses 262Brannon Wheeler17 Abraham 280Carol Bakhos18 Jesus 288Gordon Nickel19 Biblical Background 303Gabriel Said Reynolds20 Other Religions 320Mun’im Sirry21 Argumentation 333Kate Zebiri22 Knowing and Thinking 349A. H. Mathias Zahniser23 Sex, Sexuality, and the Family 365Khaleel Mohammed24 Jihād 376Reuven FirestonePart IV Interpretation 38925 Hermeneutics: al‐Thaʿlabı 391Walid Saleh26 Stories of the Prophets 406Marianna Klar27 Ṣūfism 418Alan Godlas28 Rūmı 430Jawid Mojaddedi29 Ibn al‐ʿArabı 442Binyamin Abrahamov30 Twelver Shıʿı Taʾwıl 449Diana Steigerwald31 Ismāʿılı Taʾwıl 463Diana Steigerwald32 Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾān 479Johanna PinkPart V Application 49333 Exegetical Sciences 495Jane Dammen McAuliffe34 Theology 512Binyamin Abrahamov35 Jurisprudence 526A. Kevin Reinhart36 Contemporary Ethical Issues 543Leah Kinberg37 Narrative Literature 562Roberto Tottoli38 Recitation 577Anna M. GadeBibliography 591Index of People, Places and Topics 632Index of Qurʾān Verses 651