Journal
The Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer-reviewed annual journal published by Lockwood Press on behalf of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, a nonprofit learned society for scholars of the Qur’an. JIQSA welcomes article submissions that explore the Qur’an’s origins in the religious, cultural, social, and political contexts of Late Antiquity; its connections to various literary precursors, especially the scriptural and parascriptural traditions of older religious communities; the historical reception of the Qur’an in the West; the hermeneutics and methodology of qur’anic exegesis and translation (both traditional and modern); the transmission and evolution of the textus receptus; Qur’an manuscripts and material culture; and the application of various literary and philological modes of investigation into qur’anic style, compositional structure, and rhetoric.

Mission Statement
The Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer-reviewed annual journal devoted to the scholarly study of the Qur’an. Our goals are
– to publish scholarship of high technical quality on the Qur’an, discussing its historical context, its relationship to other religious text traditions, and its literary, material, and cultural reception;
– cultivate Qur’anic Studies as a growing field with a distinctive identity and focus, while acknowledging relevant linkages to the study of the Bible as well as the Islamic tradition, including tafsir;
– facilitate crucial conversations about the state of the field in Qur’anic Studies and the future of the discipline; connect diverse scholarly communities from around the world on issues of common concern in the study of the Qur’an.

Sponsors
International Qur’anic Studies Association

CONTACT

Email: nicolai.sinai@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Fellow of Pembroke College

Contents

THE HOUSE AND THE BOOK: SANCTUARY AND SCRIPTURE IN ISLAM
Gerald R. Hawting
Page 3-23

WHY DOES THE QUR’AN NEED THE MECCAN SANCTUARY?
Sean W. Anthony
Page 25-41

BODILY RESURRECTION IN THE QUR’AN AND SYRIAC ANTI-TRITHEIST DEBATE
David Bertaina
Page 43-77

“MY GOD? YOUR LORD!” A QUR’ANIC RESPONSE TO A BIBLICAL QUESTION
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
Page 79-110

CONNECTING THE DOTS: DIACRITICS, SCRIBAL CULTURE, AND THE QUR’AN IN THE FIRST/SEVENTH CENTURY
Adam Bursi
Page 111-157