Publications

Klar, Marianna. “Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions.” In Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai, 57–119. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Klar, Marianna. “A Preliminary Catalogue of Qur’anic Sajʿ Techniques: Beat Patterning, Parallelism, and Rhyme as a Structuring Device.” In Structural Dividers in the Qur’an, edited by Marianna Klar, 181–231. Routledge: Abingdon, 2021.

Schmid, Nora K. “From Ethico-Religious Exhortation to Legal Paraenesis: Functions of Qur’anic Waʿẓ.” Islamic Law and Society 28, no. 4 (2021): 317–351.

Schmid, Nora K. “Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras.” In Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai, 164–198. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Sinai, Nicolai. Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler: Allāh in Pre-Quranic Poetry. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2019.

Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur’an: A Critical Dictionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023 (see here for open-access version; see here for a list of corrigenda).

Zellentin, Holger M. “Law in the Medinan Qur’an: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and its Qur’anic Reiteration.” In Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai, 313–387. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

 

Forthcoming publications include:

Klar, Marianna. “Adam, His Mate, and Their Sons.” In Biblical Traditions in the Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai and Marianna Klar. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Klar, Marianna. Fa-ayna l-thālithah? Qur’anic Divorce in the Context of Roman, Rabbinic, and Sasanian Law.

Sadeghi, Behnam. Islamic Demographic History to AH 300 / AD 913.

Sadeghi, Behnam. “The Development of Hadith Transmission to AH 256.”

Schmid, Nora K. “Moses in Egypt.” In Biblical Traditions in the Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai and Marianna Klar. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Schmid, Nora K. “ʿĀʾisha’s Trial: Storytelling and Early Islamic Legal Thought.”

Schmid, Nora K. “‘A Scripture to Enlighten Them’: Light Imagery, Exhortation, and Ethical Guidance in the Qur’an,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Qur’anic Literary Studies, ed. Shawkat M. Toorawa (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

Sinai, Nicolai. “Social Hierarchy and Inequality in the Qur’an.” Forthcoming in an edited volume in the series Dependency and Slavery Studies, Berlin: de Gruyter.

Sinai, Nicolai. “The Place of Divine Law in the Qur’an’s Moral Theology.” Forthcoming in a conference volume published by AMI Press.

Sinai, Nicolai. Surahs 1 and 2: A Historical and Literary Commentary. Under contract with Princeton University Press.

Zellentin, Holger M. “Biblical Law in the Qur’an.” In Biblical Traditions in the Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai and Marianna Klar. Princeton: Princeton University Press.