We are used to understanding the Qur'an as the 'Islamic text' par excellence, an assumption which...

Whilst many scholars have recognised that words play an important part in interpretation, there a...

This is the first critical edition of a fascinating medieval work on music, written in Iraq in th...

This is the first critical edition of the best-known epistle of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al...

This book is the first extensive examination of the medieval Qur'an commentary known as the Lat¿'...

This anthology of Qur'anic commentaries focuses on interpretations given to six key verses of the...

This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of Epistle 3 of the Brethren of P...

This is the first critical edition of Epistle 4 of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa'), a te...

The Ikhwan al-Safa' (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric frater...

How and when did Qur'anic exegesis (tafs¿r) emerge as a literary genre of its own? To what extent...

This is the first critical edition of Epistles 15-21 of the Brethren of Purity, which explore the...

Medieval interpretations of the Qur'an often serve as points of reference for Muslim thought; yet...