Farhana Mayer is Editor in the Qur’anic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Category: Quran
Feras Hamza of Institute of Ismaili Studies presents “The Unwritten Tafsir and the Lingering Elusiveness…
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Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi highlights some of the spiritual principles more strikingly evident and inspiring in…
The latest addition to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology tells tales of centuries of travel among…
MOA’s new Multiversity Galleries make thousands of objects accessible to the public, inviting individual exploration,…
This copy of the Holy Qur’an is a fine example of nineteenth century Kashmir manuscript…
This is the first major study in a Western language of Rashid al-Din Maybudi’s Persian…
Shahrastani (d.548 AH/1153 CE) is a major figure of the Islamic intellectual tradition, best known…
This volume is a collection of Muslim exegeses, across confessions, on six verses of the…
The Qur’an is a central reference for various levels of public discourse in Iran. As…
The pages of the Quran were written in the desertlike climate of seventh-century Arabia. Therefore,…
According to traditional interpretations, the verse (iqra bi-smi rabbika) commands the Prophet Muhammad to read…
Dr Karen Bauer, Research Associate in the Qur’anic Studies Unit at the IIS, presented at…
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