Notes on Contributors
Karen Bauer (PhD, Princeton) is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Her research areas include the Qurâan and its reception history, women and gender in Islamic thought, and the history of emotions in Islam. Among her publications is Gender Hierarchy in the Qurâan: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (2015). She is also the editor of An Anthology of Qurâanic Commentaries, Volume 2: On Women (2021, with Feras Hamza), and Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qurâanic Exegesis (2nd/8thâ9th/15th C.) (2013).
Saqib Hussain is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. His research is on wisdom in the biblical tradition and the Qurâan.
Marianna Klar (DPhil, Oxford, 2002) is a researcher at Oxfordâs Faculty of Oriental Studies, Senior Research Associate at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS. Her most recent publications focus on the Qurâanâs structure, its narratives, and its literary context. She has also worked extensively on tales of the prophets within the medieval Islamic historiographical tradition and on Qurâanic exegesis. Her monograph on al-ThaÊ¿labÄ«âs Tales of the Prophets was published in 2009, and she recently edited Structural Dividers in the Qurâan (2021).
Joseph E. Lowry is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in 1999. He studies and has published on the topics of Islamic law, early Islamic legal thought, Islamic legal theory, modern Arabic literature, premodern Arabic literature, and the Qurâan.
Angelika Neuwirth is Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and currently teaches the emergence of the Qurâan from late antique discourses at various Jerusalem institutions of theology. She is director of the Corpus Coranicum project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities. Her recent publications include The Qurâan and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (2019) and several commentary volumes on the Qurâan in German, the most recent one of which (co-authored with Dirk Hartwig) covers the later middle Meccan surahs.
Andrew J. OâConnor is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin (USA). He holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cecilia Palombo is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. She works on the social and political history of the pre-Ottoman Middle East and on its documentary cultures. She gained her PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
Gabriel Said Reynolds is Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Qurâan and the Bible: Text and Commentary (2018) and of Allah: God in the Qurâan (2020).
Neal Robinson is an independent researcher based in Brussels. He has held chairs in Islamic Studies at the University of Wales, Sogang University Seoul, and the Australian National University. He has also been a professorial research fellow in Leuven and a visiting professor in Astana and Kazan. Professor Robinson has written extensively on various aspects of Islam but his principal focus has been on the Qurâan. His best-known book, Discovering the Qurâan: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text (second edition 2003) has been translated into Turkish and German.
Nora K. Schmid (PhD in Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 2018) is a post-doctoral researcher on the project Qurâanic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm at the University of Oxford. In her research, she focuses on the Qurâan, Islamic asceticism, early Islamic religious culture and literature, especially poetry and oration, and Islamic law.
Nicolai Sinai is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His publications include The Qurâan: A Historical-Critical Introduction (2017) and Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler: AllÄh in Pre-Quranic Poetry (2019).
Devin J. Stewart is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. His research focuses on Arabic and Islamic studies, including the Qurâan, Shiʾite Islam, Islamic legal education, biography, autobiography, literature, and linguistics. He is author of Islamic Legal Orthodoxy (1998) and Disagreements of the Jurists (2015) and co-author of Interpreting the Self (2002). He has written a number of studies on rhyme and rhythm, form criticism, and other topics in Qurâanic studies.
Holger Zellentin (PhD Princeton University, 2007) is Professor of Religion (Jewish Studies) at the University of Tübingen. He has previously taught at Berkeley, Nottingham, and Cambridge. His publications include the edited volume The Qurâanâs Reformation of Judaism and Christianity (2019) and the monograph The QurʾÄnâs Legal Culture: The Didascalia Apostolorum as a Point of Departure (2013).