Articles

Articles Arranged By Topic

Qur’an

• Recent Flowering of Classical Tafsir Translations: Review Article

• Abd al-Razzaq Kashani: A Sufi Commentary on the Qur’an. Volume 1, translated by Feras Hamza. Volume 2, translated by Khalid Williams Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: The Great Exegesis Vol. 1: translated by Sohaib Saeed. Tafsir al-Tabari: Selections ,translated by Scott C. Lucas

• The Descent of the Qur’an Two augmented verbal forms of the trilateral root n-z-l are used in the Qurʾān to refer to its own descent, in both spatial and temporal sense...

• The Qur’ān and its Disbelievers According to the majority Muslim opinion, the first revelation of the Qur’ān occurred when the Prophet, upon him blessings and peace, was in retreat at the cave of Hirā, some fifteen kilometers from the Kaba, the ancient House of God...

• Education from the Qurʾānic Worldview Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (543–606/1148–1209) observed in his voluminous exegesis Mafātīḥ al-ghayb (“Keys of the Unseen”) that the Qurʾān has three axial themes: the Unicity of Allah Most High (tawḥīd), Messengership and Prophethood (risāla, nubuwwa), and Resurrection (maʿād)...

• Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (Review 1, JQS, 2008)

• Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (Review 2, MWBR, 2009)

Ummah

• Whither the Ummah: Hope in Times of Existential Crisis (Ummatics Colloquium, April 18, 2022)

• Ummah in Crisis: What is to be done? (Islamic Studies 42:4 (2003) pp. 560–584)

• Is the Present World Order Destined to remain forever? (Conference Keynote, Saskatoon, September 1990)

• Companions of the Prophet (excerpt from the IEQ entry).

• “Whither the Ummah: Hope in Times of Existential Crisis.” Center for Islamic Sciences, 2025. Reprinted in Iqbal Review 44/2 (2025), pp. 57-76.

• “Ummah in Crisis: What is to be Done?” Center for Islamic Sciences, 2025. Reprinted in Iqbal Review 44/2 (2025), pp. 77-92.

• “The Qur’an, Orientalism, and the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an.” Center for Islamic Sciences, 2025. Reprinted in Iqbal Review 45/1 (2025), pp. 33-52.

• “Western Academia and the Qur’an: Some Enduring Prejudices.” The Muslim World Book Review 30/1 (2009), pp. 5-45.

• "Who Speaks for Whom: Authority, Tradition, and Encyclopedias of Islam" The Muslim World Book Review 30/1 (2009), pp. 5-45.

  Islam and Evolution

• Darwin’s Shadow: Context and Reception in the Western World (Part I)

• Darwin’s Shadow: Context and Reception in the Muslim World (Part II)

• Darwin’s Shadow: Evolution in an Islamic Mirror (Part III)

• The Height of Prophet Adam : Book Review