Books & Editions

Reviews

Critical engagement with new and notable works in Islamic studies, Arabic literature, and adjacent fields.

Review

A New Critical Edition of al-Bāqillānī’s Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān

ed. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥamadānī (Dār al-Minhāj, 2024)

A long-awaited edition that gathers four Maghribī manuscripts, recovering passages absent from the printed vulgate.

Reviewed by Tofael Nuruddin

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Reading the Qurʾān as a Literary Whole

Salwa El-Awa, Cambridge UP, 2024

A welcome corrective to the assumption that the Qurʾān resists literary description, though some methodological commitments deserve scrutiny.

Reviewed by Faatima Uddin

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The Ottoman Madrasa, Rethought

Khalid el-Rouayheb, Brill, 2023

Detailed prosopography of the late Ottoman ʿulamāʾ that quietly dismantles the ‘decline’ paradigm without ever invoking it.

Reviewed by Syed Ahaz bin Atif