Walid Ahmad Saleh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Department for the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist on the Qur\u2019an, the history of its interpretation, the Arabic manuscript tradition, Islamic apocalyptic literature, and Muslim\u2019s reception of the Bible. His first book The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition<\/em> was the first monograph study ofal-Thalabi (d. 1035) and his influence. His second monograph, In Defense of the Bible<\/em>, is a detailed study and an edition of al-Biqa`i\u2019s (d. 1480) Bible treatise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I am currently writing an introduction to the history of the Qur\u2019an commentary tradition (Tafsir) in Islam. To this end I have been writing articles on various significant moments in the long history of Tafsir. Questions concerning periodization, genre definition, hierarchy of texts, transformations in the tradition and modernity have to be answered before outlining the introduction. I look forward to read and learn how other commentary traditions wrote histories of this genre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Gloss as Intellectual History: The \u1e24\u0101shiyahs on al-Kashsh\u0101f.\u201d Oriens<\/em> vol.41, no.3\u20134 (2013): 217\u2013259.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMarginalia and the Periphery: A Tunisian Modern Historian and the History of Qur\u2019anic Exegesis.\u201d Numen<\/em> vol.58, no.2\u20133 (2011): 284\u2013313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPreliminary Remarks on the Historiography of Tafsir in Arabic: A History of the Book Approach.\u201d Journal of Qur\u2019anic Studies<\/em> vol.12, no.1\u20132 (2010): 6\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Last of the Nishapuri School of Tafsir: Al-Wahidi and his Significance in the History of Quranic Exegesis.\u201d Journal of the American Oriental Society<\/em> vol.126, no.2 (2006): 223\u2013243.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIbn Tayimiyya and the Rise of Radical Hermeneutics: An Analysis of An Introduction to theFoundation of Qur\u2019\u0101nic Exegesis.\u201d In Ibn Taymiyya and His Times<\/em>, edited by Shahab Ahmed and Yossef Rapport, 123\u2013162. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMeccan Gods, Jesus\u2019 Divinity: An Analysis of Sura 43 (al-Zukhruf).\u201d In The Qur\u2019an\u2019s<\/em> Reformation of Judaism and Christianity<\/em>, edited by Holger Zellentin, 92\u2013112. Routledge: London, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Preacher of the Meccan Qur\u2019an: Deuteronomistic History and Confessionalism in Mu\u1e25ammad\u2019s Early Preaching.\u201d Journal of Qur\u2019anic Studies<\/em> vol.20, no.2 (2018): 74\u2013111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cParadise in an Islamic \u2018Aj\u0101\u2019ib Work: The Delight of Onlookers and the Signs for Investigators of Mar\u02bfi (d. 1033\/1624).\u201d In Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, edited by Sebastian Gunther and Todd Lawson, 931\u2013952. Leiden: Brill, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Fifteenth-Century Muslim Hebraist: Al-Biqai\u2019s Bible Treatise and His Defence of Using theBible to Interpret the Qur\u2019an.\u201d Speculum<\/em> vol.83, no.3 (2008): 629\u2013654.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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