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).

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 (associate editors: Gabriel S. Reynolds and Holger Zellentin). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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 (associate editors: Gabriel S. Reynolds and Holger Zellentin). 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.”

Sinai, Nicolai. “The Place of Divine Law in the Qur’an’s Moral Theology.”

Sinai, Nicolai. Surahs 1–3: A Historical and Literary Commentary.

Zellentin, Holger M. “Biblical Law in the Qur’an.” In Biblical Traditions in the Qur’an, edited by Nicolai Sinai and Marianna Klar (associate editors: Gabriel S. Reynolds and Holger Zellentin). Princeton: Princeton University Press.