Western Academia and the Qur’an: Some Enduring Prejudices
In the recent flowering of literature on the Qur’an in the West, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an (EQ) stands out: it is the first and so far the o...
Category: Islam in the Academy
Who Speaks for Whom: Authority, Tradition, and Encyclopedias of Islam
In retrospect, 1913 seems relatively unremarkable, especially compared to the following year which ushered the world into the first of the two great wars of the...