Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin

Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin presents re-readings of and innovative approaches to parts of the qur’anic text itself as well as medieval and modern qur’anic exegesis, its essays based on and inspired by the wide range of research areas and methodologies in which Rippin has been a leading figure.

Majid Daneshgar, Ph.D. (2013) in Religion, University of Malaya, is a lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published on modern studies of the Qur?an, modern Islamic exegetical works and Malay-Indonesian Qur?anic Studies. His book The Qur?an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, co-edited with Peter Riddell and Andrew Rippin, was published in June 2016. Walid A. Saleh, Ph.D. (2001) in Religious Studies, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published on the history of tafsir, the Qur?an and Islamic apocalyptic literature. His books The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition and In Defense of the Bible were published by Brill in 2004 and 2008 respectively.