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The Congruity of Islamic Modernist Legal Thought: The Case of Muslim Minority Fiqh (2023)
Thesis
Hussain, K. (2023). The Congruity of Islamic Modernist Legal Thought: The Case of Muslim Minority Fiqh [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040746

In recent decades with Muslim global migration patterns, modernist Islamic thought has extended to the relatively new context of large numbers of Muslims living in non-Muslim countries. This thesis views this as a continuation of modernist thought wh... Read More about The Congruity of Islamic Modernist Legal Thought: The Case of Muslim Minority Fiqh.

The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies (2020)
Book
M. Shah, & M. Abdel-Haleem. (Eds.). (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.001.0001

The Qur'an is the foundational sacred text of the Islamic faith. Traditionally revered as the literal word of God, its pronouncements and discussions form the bedrock of Islamic beliefs and teachings. Notwithstanding its religious pre-eminence and th... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies.

Vocabulary of the Qur’an: Meaning in Context (2020)
Book Chapter
Shah, M. (2020). Vocabulary of the Qur’an: Meaning in Context. In M. Shah, & M. Abdel-Haleem (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies (pp. 294-314). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.013.21

One of the striking features about the history of the academic study of the Qur’an’s vocabulary is the enduring impact that scholarship in biblical philology and Semitics had upon its development. Tracing the historical trajectories of the work devot... Read More about Vocabulary of the Qur’an: Meaning in Context.

The Corpus of Qur'anic Readings (qirā'āt): History, Synthesis and Authentication (2020)
Book Chapter
Shah, M. (2020). The Corpus of Qur'anic Readings (qirā'āt): History, Synthesis and Authentication. In M. Shah, & M. Abdel-Haleem (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies (pp. 194-216). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.013.47

The history of the study of the corpus of qirāʾāt or Qur’anic readings is principally defined by the substantive contributions made by the work of Theodor Nöldeke, Gotthelf Bergsträsser, Otto Pretzl, and Arthur Jeffery. From the publication of critic... Read More about The Corpus of Qur'anic Readings (qirā'āt): History, Synthesis and Authentication.

Islamic Theological Discourses and the Legacy of Kalām: Gestation, Movements and Controversies (2019)
Book
M. Shah. (Ed.). (2019). Islamic Theological Discourses and the Legacy of Kalām: Gestation, Movements and Controversies. Gerlach. http://www.gerlach-press.de/attachment/INFO_GerlachPress_Shah_Kalam_Sept2019.pdf

With a concern for context and history, this major reference work presents key academic contributions devoted to the study of early, classical and pre-modern Islamic theological thought. The aim is to provide a balanced survey of the research discour... Read More about Islamic Theological Discourses and the Legacy of Kalām: Gestation, Movements and Controversies.

The Word of God: The Epistemology of Language in Classical Islamic Theological Thought (2019)
Book Chapter
Shah, M. (2019). The Word of God: The Epistemology of Language in Classical Islamic Theological Thought. In R. Yelle, C. Handman, & C. Lehrich (Eds.), Language and Religion (pp. 158-192). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514329-008

One of the striking characteristics of early classical Islamic theological thought is the frequency with which language-based topics dominated arguments and discussions. This ranged from the medieval debates about the uncreated status of the text to... Read More about The Word of God: The Epistemology of Language in Classical Islamic Theological Thought.

Review of ‘Sharia and the Concept of Benefit: The Use and Function of maṣlaḥa in Islamic Jurisprudence’. By Abdul Aziz bin Sattam. (2019)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2019). Review of ‘Sharia and the Concept of Benefit: The Use and Function of maṣlaḥa in Islamic Jurisprudence’. By Abdul Aziz bin Sattam. [Review of the book Sharia and the Concept of Benefit: The Use and Function of maṣlaḥa in Islamic Jurisprudence]. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 21(1), 122-126. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2019.0372

Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought (2018)
Other
Mustafa, S. (2018). Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought. Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies (pp. 1-30). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195390155-0251

Tanzīh (transcendence) and tashbīh (anthropomorphism). Within early and classical theological thought, debates and arguments concerning notions of tanzīh (transcendence) and tashbīh (anthropomorphism) had a significant impact on the genesis of ration... Read More about Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought.

Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms (2017)
Book Chapter
Shah, M. (2017). Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms. In R. Debes (Ed.), Dignity: A History (pp. 99-126). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dignity-9780199385997?lang=en&cc=us#

An interesting selection of discussions germane to the concept of dignity is to be found in the medieval Islamic literary sources. Within the traditions of learning associated with law, theology, and the literature of classical ethicists, writers fre... Read More about Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms.

The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law (2016)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2016). The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 29(2), 285-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-016-9461-1

The qirāʾāt or variae lectiones represent the vast corpus of Qurʾānic readings that were preserved through the historical processes associated with the textual codification and transmission of the Qurʾān. Despite the fact that differences among certa... Read More about The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law.

Review of: John P. Turner, Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire (2015)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2015). Review of: John P. Turner, Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire [Review of the book Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire]. Ilahiyat Studies, 6(2), 268-275. https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2015.62.136

Kalām: rational expressions of medieval theological thought (2015)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2015). Kalām: rational expressions of medieval theological thought [Kalām: rational expressions of medieval theological thought]. Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism, 1-49. http://www.encyclopedie-humanisme.com/?Islamic-Kal%C4%81m

The discipline of kalām encompasses not only the rational exposition of religious doctrine and dogma, but it also extends to a panoply of subsidiary topics and genres, many of which were deemed relevant to the theoretical and conceptual resolution of... Read More about Kalām: rational expressions of medieval theological thought.

Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo. Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation with an Introduction. By Lejla Demiri. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 566. €158 (cloth). (2014)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2014). Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo. Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation with an Introduction. By Lejla Demiri. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 566. €158 (cloth). [Review of the book Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo. Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s (d. 716/1316]. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 73(2), 378. https://doi.org/10.1086/677276

Al-Ṭabarī and the Dynamics of tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy. (2013)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2013). Al-Ṭabarī and the Dynamics of tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 15(2), 83-139. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2013.0097

The Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl ayy al-Qurʾān is fittingly recognised as representing an important milestone in the history of the discipline of tafsīr: within the work, al-Ṭabarī accomplished a uniquely comprehensive exegetical synthesis of literary,... Read More about Al-Ṭabarī and the Dynamics of tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy..