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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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Reading Q. 4:34 in Context	7
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Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	3
Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition	2
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	2
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	1
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	1
Qur'anic Exegesis at the Confluence of Twelver Shiism and Sufism: Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s al-Muḥīṭ al-aʿẓam	1
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	1
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Ishbāʿ al-maʿnā in the Qur’an: A Structural Survey of Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa (Q. 69)	0
The Qur’an on Muslim Women’s Marriage to Non-Muslims: Premodern Exegetical Strategies, Contradictions, and Assumptions	0
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
Presenza del Corano in due Itineraria quattrocenteschi	0
Shady Hekmat Nasser, The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān (324/936): Ibn Mujāhid and the Founding of the Seven Readings	0
Introduction European Visions of the Qur’an in the Middle Ages	0
Notes for Authors	0
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Fights and Flights: Two Underrated ‘Alternatives’ to Dominant Readings intafsīr	0
Cadenced Rhyming Translations of Sūrat al-Nabaʾ (Q. 78) and Sūrat al-Takwīr (Q. 81)	0
The Qur'an in the Commentaries on Dante's Comedy	0
A Nietzschean tafsīr for Nazi Germany: The Commentary to Sadr-ud-Dīn’s Qur’an of 1939	0
Approaches to the Investigation of Speech Genres in the Qur'an	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
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Ḥamza's Consideration of Ibn Masʿūd's Divergent Readings	0
Susan Gunasti, The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: An Exegetical Tradition	0
A Zaydī Qur’an Commentary from Yemen: An Introduction toTajrīd al-Kashshāf maʿa ziyādat nukat liṭāf	0
A Rhyming Translation of Sūrat al-Layl (Q. 92)	0
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Allah: God in the Qur’an	0
Qur'an Translations into Central Asian Languages: Exegetical Standards and Translation Processes	0
Propagating Gender Norms in an Islamic Republic: Three Pakistani Alims and their Online tafsīrs	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Qur’anic Metaphors: Between the Historicity of Poetic Imagination and the Continuity of Context	0
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Critique of Religious Discourse: Naqd Khitab al-Dini	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
The Role of khafāʾ al-maʿnā (‘Obscurity of Meaning’) in Qur'anic Rhetoric	0
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Tafsīr and taʾwīl in Post-Classical Sufi Scholarship: The Study of Correspondences (taṭbīq) in Q. 10:90–92	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library	0
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Qur’an Translation and Reformist daʿwa: Ideology, Literacy, and Modernity in West Java	0
The Bitter Lot of the Rebellious Wife: Hierarchy, Obedience, and Punishment in Q. 4:34	0
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Abstracts of Articles in English	0
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Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann, and Christopher Melchert (eds), Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches	0
Mustafa Shah and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies	0
A Translation of Sūrat al-Kahf (Q. 18) ‘The Cave’	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Notes for Authors	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 English	0
Revisiting the Qur’anic aḥbār in Historical Context	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	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
Du Liber denudationis au baron de Münchausen, le voyage nocturne de Muhammad entre argument polémique et thème littéraire	0
What Were the Most Populartafsīrs in Islamic History? Part 1: An Assessment of the Manuscript Record and the State oftafsīrStudies	0
Notes for Authors	0
ʿUlūm al-Qurʾānand the Diffusion of a New Methodology: A Rare Female Contribution to Qur’anic Sciences	0
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Le Coran d’après l’Alcoran : Le référentiel coranique dans les Alcoran de Robert de Ketton et Marc de Tolède	0
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Textual Understanding and the Dialectics of Intent in the Works of Qur'anic Exegetes	0
The Translational Challenges Presented by Qur’anic Oaths: A Study of Q. 79 and Q. 100	0

The Qur'anic Method of Presenting Legislative Rulings: An Analytical Study of ṣadaqa in Sūrat al-Baqara	0
Simplify and Doctrinalise, Historify and Personalise: How Two Less-Known Works of Anti-Islamic Polemic fromc. 1370–1440 Adapted their Sources	0
Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries. By Hadia Mubarak	0
The Faza Qur’an: Three Nineteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts from Coastal East Africa	0
Bridging the ‘Orient’ and the West: Arabia, the British Empire in India, and English Translations of the Qur’an in the Early Twentieth Century	0
Understanding the Qur'an Through Sura Structure: Reading Q. 86 and Q. 88	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Leif Steinberg and Philip Wood (eds), What Is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field	0
Qur’an Translations in African American (Post-)Muslim Movements	0
Editors’ Preface: daʿwa and Qur’an Translation in the Early Twentieth Century	0
Notes for Authors	0
Opposition to Word-Breaking in the Practice of Qur’an Commentary in Eighth/Fourteenth- and Ninth/Fifteenth-Century Mamlūk Cairo	0
Al-Bayḍāwī's Date of Death: A Mystery Resolved	0
Respecting People with Disabilities: Sūrat ʿAbasa (Q. 80)	0
Argument Structures in Sūrat al-Nūr: A Pragmatic Approach	0
Linguistic Theory intafsīrbetween 100/400 and 700/1000: Implications for Qur’anic Studies	0
Notes for Authors	0
Conflicting Interests in the Creation of a State-Authorised Translation: Comparing the Saudi and Indonesian Editions of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya	0
Revisiting Translations of the Qur'an into English by Aḥmadiyya Translators: A Critical Examination	0
The Qur’an in Malayalam: Contextualising Early iṣlāḥī Translations	0
The Qur’anic Story of Joseph in Five Acts: A Playscript Translation of Sūrat Yūsuf (Q. 12)	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Notes for Authors	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Tawḥīd as Social Justice: The Anthropocentric Hermeneutics of the Syrian Theologian Jawdat Saʿīd	0
Hannah-Lena Hagemann, The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition	0
Qur'anic Internal Prophetic Theophany in Sūrat al-Najm and Sūrat al-Takwīr: An Intra- and Extra-Textual Exegesis	0
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
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	0
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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
Abstracts of Articles in English	0
Garrett Davidson, Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years	0
‘A Precious Treatise’: How Modern Arab Editors Helped Create Ibn Taymiyya’s Muqaddima fī uṣūl al-tafsīr	0
The last Qur’an from al-Andalus?	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
A.S. Madsen's Danish Translation of the Qur'an and the Ahmadiyya Mission in Scandinavia	0
The Qur'an Commentary of al-Bayḍāwī: A History ofAnwār al-tanzīl	0
The Ecology of a Vernacular Qur’an: Rethinking Mūsā Bīgī’s Translation into Türki-Tatar	0
Sūrat al-Nūr (Q. 24), ‘Light upon Light’: Shedding New Light on the Light Verse	0
The Semantic Arrangement of Antonyms in Clear and Ambiguous Vocabulary in the Qur'an	0
A Perennial Challenge to Belief in Resurrection: Sūrat Qāf (Q. 50)	0
The Echoes of a Dispute Over the Inimitability of the Qur’an in Ms Riccardiano 217 (Florence)	0
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The Meaning and Usage of laʿalla in the Qur’an	0
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ʿAbd al-Mājid Daryābādī’s Tafsir-ul-Quran and the daʿwalogy of Abū’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Nadwī	0
A Survey of Personal-Use Qur'an Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah	0
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience	0
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
Johanna Pink, Muslim Qurʾānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities	0
The Grammatical Rules and Textual Functions of the Non-Apposite Indefinite Annexed kull: Sūrat al-Isrāʾ as a Case Study	0
The Representation of Animals in the Qur'an and theMufaḍḍaliyyāt	0
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Ibn ʿAjība's ‘Oceanic Exegesis of the Qur'an': Methodology and Features	0
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Did Modernity End Polyvalence? Some Observations on Tolerance for Ambiguity in Sunnitafsīr	0
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The daʿwa Qur'an? Exploring the Evolution of ʿAbdullah Yūsuf ʿAlī’s Translation	0
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A Sea-Change in Qur’anic Hermeneutics: ḥadīth Citation in al-Farrāʾ's Maʿānī al-Qurʾān	0
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
Abstracts of Articles in Arabic	0
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Abstracts of Articles in English	0
The Islamic Mary: Between Prophecy and Orthodoxy	0
A Nineteenth-Century Catholic Translation of the Qur’an into Italian by Vincenzo Calza, Pontifical Consul General of Algiers	0