OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quranic Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Qur'an Commentary of al-Bayḍāwī: A History ofAnwār al-tanzīl	6
Scientific Language in the Latin Qur'ans of Robert of Ketton and Mark of Toledo	2
The Islamic Mary: Between Prophecy and Orthodoxy	2
Qur'an Translations into Central Asian Languages: Exegetical Standards and Translation Processes	2
The Bitter Lot of the Rebellious Wife: Hierarchy, Obedience, and Punishment in Q. 4:34	2
A Zaydī Qur’an Commentary from Yemen: An Introduction to Tajrīd al-Kashshāf maʿa ziyādat nukat liṭāf	1
A Survey of Personal-Use Qur'an Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah	1
Opposition to Word-Breaking in the Practice of Qur’an Commentary in Eighth/Fourteenth- and Ninth/Fifteenth-Century Mamlūk Cairo	1
The ‘Four Aspects of the Qur'an’ ḥadīth and the Evolution of Ṣūfī Exegesis until Shams al-Dīn al-Fanārī (d. 834/1431)	1
Review Article: Scott C. Lucas (tr.),Ṭabarī: Selections from the Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur'ān. Volumes I & II	1
A Note on al-Bayḍāwī’s Years of Birth and Death	1
Did Modernity End Polyvalence? Some Observations on Tolerance for Ambiguity in Sunnitafsīr	1
Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad	1
A Translation of Sūrat al-Kahf (Q. 18) ‘The Cave’	1
An Aljamiado Translation of the ‘Morisco Qur'an’ and its Arabic Text (c. 1609)	1
And Yet it Moves: Reflections on an Essay by Nicolai Sinai	0
Propagating Gender Norms in an Islamic Republic: Three Pakistani Alims and their Online tafsīrs	0
The Role of Rhetoric (balāgha) in Teaching Arabic in Western Universities: An Experience from Britain	0
Textual Understanding and the Dialectics of Intent in the Works of Qur'anic Exegetes	0
Ishbāʿ al-maʿnā in the Qur’an: A Structural Survey of Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa (Q. 69)	0
Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition	0
Hannah-Lena Hagemann, The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Critique of Religious Discourse: Naqd Khitab al-Dini	0
The Role of khafāʾ al-maʿnā (‘Obscurity of Meaning’) in Qur'anic Rhetoric	0

‘Adiutores Mahumet compilauerunt Alchoran’: The Role of ‘the Jews’ in Understanding and Refuting the Qur'an and Islam at Cluny	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Susan Gunasti, The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition	0
Variae lectiones de la traducción latina del Alcorán de Robert de Ketton en el Itinerarium Symonis Semeonis	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Notes for Authors	0
The Qur’anic Story of Joseph in Five Acts: A Playscript Translation of Sūrat Yūsuf (Q. 12)	0
Leif Steinberg and Philip Wood (eds), What Is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field	0
Conciliation and Conflict in the Meccan and Medinan Qur'an: A Thematic Study of Suras 6 to 9	0
Notes for Authors	0
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Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Du Liber denudationis au baron de Münchausen, le voyage nocturne de Muhammad entre argument polémique et thème littéraire	0
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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience	0
The Qur'an in the Commentaries on Dante's Comedy	0
Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment	0
Notes for Authors	0
Approaches to the Investigation of Speech Genres in the Qur'an	0
The Translational Challenges Presented by Qur’anic Oaths: A Study of Q. 79 and Q. 100	0
Nuha Alshaar, The Qur'an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam	0
Simplify and Doctrinalise, Historify and Personalise: How Two Less-Known Works of Anti-Islamic Polemic from c. 1370–1440 Adapted their Sources	0
Revisiting the Qur’anic aḥbār in Historical Context	0
Yamina Bouguenaya and Isra Yazicioglu, tr., annot., and intr., Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose: Selections on Tawhid from Said Nursi’s Epistles of Light	0
Shady Hekmat Nasser, The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān (324/936): Ibn Mujāhid and the Founding of the Seven Readings	0
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Qur'anic Exegesis at the Confluence of Twelver Shiism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s al-Muḥīṭ al-aʿẓam	0
A Rhyming Translation of Sūrat al-Layl (Q. 92)	0
Cadenced Rhyming Translations of Sūrat al-Nabaʾ (Q. 78) and Sūrat al-Takwīr (Q. 81)	0
Abraham Gazed upon the Stars and Said ‘innī saqīm’: The Influence of a ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth on the Interpretation of Q. 37:88–89, and a Thematic and Structural Reading of Abraham's Story	0
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Nevin Reda, The al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qurʾan's Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes	0
The Faza Qur’an: Three Nineteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts from Coastal East Africa	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
‘A Precious Treatise’: How Modern Arab Editors Helped Create Ibn Taymiyya’s Muqaddima fī uṣūl al-tafsīr	0
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What Were the Most Popular tafsīrs in Islamic History? Part 1: An Assessment of the Manuscript Record and the State of tafsīr Studies	0
Ibn ʿAjība's ‘Oceanic Exegesis of the Qur'an': Methodology and Features	0
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Do We Go Back to Where We Came From? Mullā Ṣadrā's Philosophical Exegesis on the Paradise of Adam and the Promised Paradise of the Afterlife	0
Understanding the Qur'an Through Sura Structure: Reading Q. 86 and Q. 88	0
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Respecting People with Disabilities: Sūrat ʿAbasa (Q. 80)	0
Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann, and Christopher Melchert (eds), Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches	0
Revisiting Translations of the Qur'an into English by Aḥmadiyya Translators: A Critical Examination	0
A Perennial Challenge to Belief in Resurrection: Sūrat Qāf (Q. 50)	0
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Notes for Authors	0

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Mustafa Shah and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies	0
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Qur’anic Metaphors: Between the Historicity of Poetic Imagination and the Continuity of Context	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Fights and Flights: Two Underrated ‘Alternatives’ to Dominant Readings intafsīr	0
A Nineteenth-Century Catholic Translation of the Qur’an into Italian by Vincenzo Calza, Pontifical Consul General of Algiers	0
Introduction European Visions of the Qur’an in the Middle Ages	0
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Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
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Qur'anic Internal Prophetic Theophany in Sūrat al-Najm and Sūrat al-Takwīr: An Intra- and Extra-Textual Exegesis	0
The Echoes of a Dispute Over the Inimitability of the Qur’an in Ms Riccardiano 217 (Florence)	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Notes for Authors	0
Towards an Abrahamic Religion: Developments in Later Meccan Suras. Part I: Strategies of Argumentation and Interpretation	0
Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad Sulaymān, Khalīl Maḥmūd al-Yamānī, and Maḥmūd Ḥamad al-Sayyid al-Taʾlīf al-muʿāṣir fī qawāʿid al-tafsīr. Dirāsa naqdiyya li-manhajiyyat al-ḥukm bi'l-qāʿidiyya	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
The last Qur’an from al-Andalus?	0
Ḥamza's Consideration of Ibn Masʿūd's Divergent Readings	0
Daniel J. Crowther, Shirin Shafaie, Ida Glaser, and Shabbir Akhtar (eds), Reading the Bible in Islamic Context: Qur'anic Conversations	0
Notes for Authors	0
Garrett Davidson, Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years	0
Reading Q. 4:34 in Context	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
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The Meaning and Usage of laʿalla in the Qur’an	0
Notes for Authors	0
Transformations in Early Muslim Prophetology: From Typology to Teleology in Narratives of Jonah and the Ninevites	0
The Qur’an on Muslim Women’s Marriage to Non-Muslims: Premodern Exegetical Strategies, Contradictions, and Assumptions	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Towards an Abrahamic Religion: Developments in Later Meccan Suras. Part II: Abraham, Local Heritage, and Developments in Liturgy and Ethics	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
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The Qur'anic Method of Presenting Legislative Rulings: An Analytical Study of ṣadaqa in Sūrat al-Baqara	0
Presenza del Corano in due Itineraria quattrocenteschi	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
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Afterword to Shawkat Toorawa's ‘The Qur'anic Story of Joseph in Five Acts: A Playscript Translation of Sūrat Yūsuf (Q. 12)’	0
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Notes for Authors	0
The Representation of Animals in the Qur'an and theMufaḍḍaliyyāt	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Argument Structures in Sūrat al-Nūr: A Pragmatic Approach	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
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ʿUlūm al-Qurʾānand the Diffusion of a New Methodology: A Rare Female Contribution to Qur’anic Sciences	0
Linguistic Theory in tafsīr between 100/400 and 700/1000: Implications for Qur’anic Studies	0
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Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
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A Review of Codex Amrensis 1 by Eleanore Cellard	0
Muḥammad b. Masʿūd al-ʿAyyāshī, Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī: A Fourth/Tenth Century Shīʿī Commentary on the Qur’an, tr. Nazmina Dhanji, ed. Wahid M. Amin, intr. Meir M. Bar-Asher	0
Le Coran d’après l’Alcoran : Le référentiel coranique dans les Alcoran de Robert de Ketton et Marc de Tolède	0
The Semantic Arrangement of Antonyms in Clear and Ambiguous Vocabulary in the Qur'an	0
The Ecology of a Vernacular Qur’an: Rethinking Mūsā Bīgī’s Translation into Türki-Tatar	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abu Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Māturīdī al-Samarqandī Taʾwīlāt al-Qurʾān. Edited by Ahmet Vanliǧlu, Mehmet Boynukalin, Ertuǧrul Boynukalin, Hatice Boynukalin, Halil Ibrahim Kacar, Murat Sul	0
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Gabriel Said Reynolds, Allah: God in the Qur’an	0
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Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Johanna Pink, Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities	0
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Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0