The Koran

Further reading

Introductory texts

  • Bell, Richard; Watt, William Montgomery (1970). Bell's introduction to the Qurʼān. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-0597-2.
  • Hawting, G.R. (1993). Approaches to the Qur'ān (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-05755-4.
  • Hixon, Lex (2003). The heart of the Qurʼan: an introduction to Islamic spirituality (2 ed.). Quest. ISBN 978-0-8356-0822-0.
  • Rahman, Fazlur (2009) [1989]. Major Themes of the Qur'an (Second ed.). University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-70286-5.
  • Robinson, Neal (2002). Discovering the Qur'an. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-024-6.
  • Sells, Michael (15 November 1999). Approaching the Qur'ān: The Early Revelations (Book & CD ed.). White Cloud Press. ISBN 978-1-883991-26-5.
  • Wild, Stefan (1996). The Quʼran as Text. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09300-3.

Traditional Quranic commentaries (tafsir)

  • Al-Tabari (1987) [Cairo 1955–69]. "Jāmiʻ al-bayān ʻan taʼwīl al-qurʼān". The Commentary on the Qurʼān. transl. J. Cooper (ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920142-6.
  • Tabatabae, Sayyid Mohammad Hosayn. Tafsir al-Mizan.

Topical studies

  • McAuliffe, Jane Dammen (1991). Qurʼānic Christians: an analysis of classical and modern exegesis. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36470-6.
  • Siljander, Mark D.; Mann, John David (2008). A Deadly Misunderstanding: a Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide. New York: Harper One. ISBN 978-0-06-143828-8.
  • Stowasser, Barbara Freyer (1 June 1996). Women in the Qur'an, Traditions and Interpretation (Reprint ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511148-4.

Literary criticism

  • M.M. Al-Azami (2003). The History of The Qur'anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments (First ed.). UK Islamic Academy. ISBN 978-1-872531-65-6.
  • Boullata, Issa J, ed. (2000). Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur'ān. Curzon Press. ISBN 0-7007-1256-9..
  • Luling, Gunter (2003). A challenge to Islam for reformation: the rediscovery and reliable reconstruction of a comprehensive pre-Islamic Christian hymnal hidden in the Koran under earliest Islamic reinterpretations. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-1952-8.
  • Luxenberg, Christoph (2007) [2004]. The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: a contribution to the decoding of the language of the Koran. Berlin: Verlag Hans Schiler. ISBN 978-3-89930-088-8.
  • Puin, Gerd R. (1996). "Observations on Early Quran Manuscripts in Sana'a". In Wild, Stefan (ed.). The Qurʾan as Text. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 107–11.
  • Wansbrough, John (1977). Quranic Studies. Oxford University Press.

Encyclopedias

  • McAuliffe JD, et al., eds. (2001). Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (First ed.). Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-11465-4.
  • Leaman O, et al., eds. (2005). The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia (First ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-77529-8.
  • Iqbal M, et al., eds. (2013). The Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an (First ed.). Center for Islamic Sciences. ISBN 978-1-926620-00-8.

Academic journals

  • Journal of Qur'anic Studies (ISSN 1465-3591), published by the School of Oriental and African Studies
  • Journal of Qur'anic Research and Studies, published by King Fahd Qur'an Printing Complex

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