Shuaib Ally is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. He works on commentaries on the Qur\u2019an and on works of classical Arabic rhetoric and literary theory. His PhD dissertation (University of Toronto, 2022)\u00a0was about past and present anxieties over the loss of scholarly classics, specifically the work of an 11th C Persian scholar\u00a0\u02bfAbd al-Q\u0101hir al-Jurj\u0101n\u012b,\u00a0who wrote the most important book of classical Arabic rhetoric and literary theory. His project used paratextual evidence in extant copies of his work to trace its historical transmission and scholarly engagement with a work that has been allegedly lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I am currently working on the tradition of supercommentary writing on the Qur\u2019an, one of the most dominant forms of scholarly writing, in the fourteenth to seventeenth century. My\u00a0project is a\u00a0study of\u00a0a type of knowledge organization (authorial indexing notes) in the margins of a popular supercommentary, that of the seventeenth century Shih\u0101b al-D\u012bn al-Khaf\u0101j\u012b.\u00a0I explore through these notes how supercommentaries were organized, what was lost in the transition from manuscript to print, and what it meant to engage in the practice of Qur\u2019an supercommentary writing by the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Opposition to Word-Breaking in the Practice of Qur\u02be\u0101n Commentary in fourteenth \u2013 fifteenth century Mamluk Cairo.\u201d Journal of Qur\u2019anic Studies<\/em> 25.1. (forthcoming<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cForbidding the Reading of the\u00a0Kashsh\u0101f<\/em>: Clarifying the\u00a0Mamluk Era Reception of Zamakhshar\u012b\u2019s Qur\u02be\u0101n Commentary.\u201d\u00a0Asiatische Studien \/ \u00c9tudes Asiatiques\u00a0<\/em>76.2 (2002) 315-354.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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