Articles

Qur’an

• Recent Flowering of Classical Tafsir Translations: Review Article

• Abd al-Razzaq Kashani: A Sufi Commentary on the Qur’an. Volume 1, translated by Feras Hamza. Volume 2, translated by Khalid Williams Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: The Great Exegesis Vol. 1: translated by Sohaib Saeed. Tafsir al-Tabari: Selections ,translated by Scott C. Lucas

• The Descent of the Qur’an Two augmented verbal forms of the trilateral root n-z-l are used in the Qurʾān to refer to its own descent, in both spatial and temporal sense...

• The Qur’ān and its Disbelievers According to the majority Muslim opinion, the first revelation of the Qur’ān occurred when the Prophet, upon him blessings and peace, was in retreat at the cave of Hirā, some fifteen kilometers from the Kaba, the ancient House of God...

• Education from the Qurʾānic Worldview Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (543–606/1148–1209) observed in his voluminous exegesis Mafātīḥ al-ghayb (“Keys of the Unseen”) that the Qurʾān has three axial themes: the Unicity of Allah Most High (tawḥīd), Messengership and Prophethood (risāla, nubuwwa), and Resurrection (maʿād)...

• Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (Review 1, JQS, 2008)

• Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (Review 2, MWBR, 2009)

Ummah

• Whither the Ummah: Hope in Times of Existential Crisis (Ummatics Colloquium, April 18, 2022)

• Ummah in Crisis: What is to be done? (Islamic Studies 42:4 (2003) pp. 560–584)

• Is the Present World Order Destined to remain forever? (Conference Keynote, Saskatoon, September 1990)

• Companions of the Prophet (excerpt from the IEQ entry).

• “Whither the Ummah: Hope in Times of Existential Crisis.” Center for Islamic Sciences, 2025. Reprinted in Iqbal Review 44/2 (2025), pp. 57-76.

• “Ummah in Crisis: What is to be Done?” Center for Islamic Sciences, 2025. Reprinted in Iqbal Review 44/2 (2025), pp. 77-92.

• “The Qur’an, Orientalism, and the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an.” Center for Islamic Sciences, 2025. Reprinted in Iqbal Review 45/1 (2025), pp. 33-52.

• “Western Academia and the Qur’an: Some Enduring Prejudices.” The Muslim World Book Review 30/1 (2009), pp. 5-45.

• "Who Speaks for Whom: Authority, Tradition, and Encyclopedias of Islam" The Muslim World Book Review 30/1 (2009), pp. 5-45.

Islam and Evolution

• Darwin’s Shadow: Context and Reception in the Western World (Part I)

• Darwin’s Shadow: Context and Reception in the Muslim World (Part II)

• Darwin’s Shadow: Evolution in an Islamic Mirror (Part III)

• The Height of Prophet Adam : Book Review

Book Reviews

• David King: World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science

• Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra: The Enterprise of Science in Islam—New Perspectives

• Paul Lettinck: Aristotle’s Meteorology and its Reception in the Arab World

• Sarah Stroumsa: Freethinkers of Medieval Islam

• M. I. H. Farooqi: Plants of the Qur’an, Medicinal Plants in the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad: Scientific Study of the Prophetic Medicine, Food and Perfumes (Aromatics)

• Bron R. Taylor et al. (ed.): The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Nature

• A. Bouhdiba (Chief Editor): The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture--Vols 2, 4, and 5

• Gad Freudenthal: Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions

• Muhammad Ali Khalidi (ed.): The Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings

• William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.): Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe

• Walid A. Saleh: The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition:The Qurʾān Commentary of al-Thaʿlabī

• Andrew J. Lane: A Traditional Muʿtazilite Qurʾān Commentary

• C. Snouck Hurgronje Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century

• Franz Rosenthal: Knowledge Triumphant

• William C. Chittick: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

• Hamid Parsania: Existence and the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam

• Martin Lings: The Holy Qurʾān: Translations of Selected Passages

• Muhammad Akram Nadvi: Al-Muḥaddithāt: The Women Scholars in Islam

• Thomas E. Burman: Reading the Qurʾān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

• Mustansir Mir: Understanding the Islamic Scripture:A Study of Selected Passages from the Qurʾān

• José Luis Mancha: Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics

• George Saliba: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

• Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem: Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur’anic Usage

• Ronald L. Numbers (ed.): Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion

• Roshdi Rashed (ed.): Thābit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad

• Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.): Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700 and Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700—Present

• Muḥammad Wāʿiẓ Zādah al-Khurāsānī (ed.): Al-Muʿjam fī fiqh lugha al-Qurʾān wa sirr balāghatihi

• Sonja Brentjes: Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge

• Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych: The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muḥammad

• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: Musnad al-Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

• Ahmad Dallal: Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History

• Salma K. Jayyusi (General Ed.): The City in the Islamic World

• Barbara Freyer Stowasser: The Day Begins at Sunset: Perception of Time in the Islamic World

• Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī: Accounts of China and India, Ibn Faḍlān: Mission to the Volga

• S. R. Burge: Angels in Islam:Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī’s al-Ḥabāʾik fī akhbār al-malāʾik

• Marwa Elshakry: Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

• Ibn al-Jawzī: Virtues of the Imam Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal

• ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah: The Principles of Sufism

• Yasminah Hashim and Muhammad A. J. Beg: A Journey Through Islamic History: A Timeline of Key Events

• Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung (Eds.): Encyclopaedia Islamica

• ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī: The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

• Nadeem M. Memon and Mujadad Zaman (Eds.): Philosophies of Islamic Education

• Shadi Hamid: The Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World

• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali/ Khalid Williams (tr)

• Nicolai Sinai: Key Terms of the Qur'an

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