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אודות

אני פרופסור אמריטוס בחוג ללימודי הערבית והאסלאם, ותחומי ההתמחות שלי הם הקוראן, פרשנות הקוראן והמסורת האסלמית הקדומה. בעת הזאת אני שוקד על חקר החומרים המקראיים והמדרשיים המשוקעים בקוראן, וזאת על סמך בדיקה מחודשת של טקסטים מקראיים ומדרשיים שטרם נדונו עד כה במחקר המודרני של הקוראן.

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CV

Education

Period	University	Subject	Degree	Date of Award
1965/6-67/8	Tel Aviv University	Biblical studies and history of the Middle East	BA	1968
1968/9-70/71	Tel Aviv University	Arabic	BA	1971
1973-75	Tel Aviv University	Arabic	Ph.D.	1976 (summa cum laude)

Title of doctoral dissertation: Muhammad the Prophet in the Early Muslim Tradition.

Name of supervisor: M.J. Kister

Further studies

Period	University	Subject	Professional License	Date of Award
1968-69	Tel Aviv University, Pedagogic Department	Bible teaching	teaching certificate	1970

Academic and professional experience

Period	Institution	Department	Rank/Function
1969-71	Tel Aviv University	Shiloah Centre	Research Assistant
1971-74	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Assistant Teacher
1974-76	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Instructor
1976-80	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Lecturer
1980-85	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Senior Lecturer
1984-90	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Head of Department
1985-94	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Associate Professor
Since 1.11.94	Tel Aviv University	Arabic Language and Literature	Full Professor
1998--99	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Institute for Advanced Studies	Research Fellow
2009-10	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Institute for Advanced Studies	Research Fellow
Since 1.10.09	Tel Aviv University	Arabic and Islamic Studies	Incumbent of the Irene Halmos Chair for Arabic Literature
Since 1.10.12	Tel Aviv University	Arabic and Islamic Studies	Emeritus Professor

Editorial Activity

1991-2000, Membership in editorial board of Israel Oriental Studies.
1994-2000, Membership in advisory board of The Encyclopedia of the Quran, E. J. Brill,Leiden.
1995, Editor of Islam section in Encyclopaedia Hebraica, 3rd supplement volume.

Active Participation in Scientific Meetings

1980 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, First Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1982 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Second Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1984 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Third Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1985 ”Quran and Hadith”, Second Colloquium, Cambridge.
1987 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Fourth Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1988 “Hadith and Historiography”, Third Colloquium, Oxford.
1990 “Fourteen centuries of the Quran”, SOAS, London.
1990 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Fifth Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1991 “Fourth Hadith Colloquium”, Free University, Amsterdam.
1993 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Sixth Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1996 "Jews and Muslims: a Revised Evaluation", School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
1996 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Seventh Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies.
1997 “The Biography of the Prophet Muhammad: the Issue of the Sources”. University of Nijmegen. Title of Paper: “The Life of Muhammad and the Islamic Self-Image: An Episode in the Campaigns of Badr and al-Hudaybiyya”.
1998 “Jerusalem in the Eschatological Thought of Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, Jerusalem. Title of Paper: “Ka`b al-Ahbar and `Umar: An Examination of Judeo--Islamic Traditions about Jerusalem”.
1999 “Narratives of Rituals: Reconstruction in Religious Studies.” Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of Paper: “Islamic Ritual in Historiographical Perspective: The case of the Pilgrimage to Mecca”.
2000 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Eighth Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of Paper: “Muhammad’s Hijra: the Episode of the Cave”.
2000 Workshop: “Genesis and Regeneration”, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, December, 2000, Jerusalem. Title of Paper: “The Origins of Religious Authority in Islam: Descent into the Islamic Well of the Past”.
2001 “How a religion originates: The prophetic charisma as a factor of innovation”, Centro di Alti Studi in Scienze Religiose, Nov. 2001, Piacenza, Italy. Title of Paper: “The Prophet and Satan: Aspects of Muhammad's Anti Demonic Powers”.
2001 Conference of the Israel Academy of Sciences: “Axial Transformations”, convened in December, 2001 at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Title of Paper: “The role of Arabian self-consciousness in the literary formation of the Islamic self-history”.
2002 MESA Conference, Washington, November 25. Panel: “Ritual, Law and Society in Early Islam”. Title of paper: "On the History of the Islamic Direction of Prayer (qibla)".
2003 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Ninth Colloquium,Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of Paper: “Muhammad the Exorcist: Aspects of Islamic-Jewish Polemics”.
2005 כנס החברה המזרחית הישראלית. האוניברסיטה הפתוחה. "בית האשם במסורת האסלאם"
2006 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, Tenth Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of Paper: “Al-Masjid al-Aqsa and Jerusalem: A Reconsideration of Muhammad’s Night Journey and Ascension”.
2009 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, 11^th Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of Paper: “The Quranic and post-Quranic Image of the Prophet Muhammad: The Case of sura 94”.
2009 Conference in honor of G. Kanazi, Haifa University. Title of Lecture: “Pre-Islamic imitations of the Kaʿba and Abd al-Malik’s Dome of the Rock”.
2010 Ancient Arabia Colloquium, The Institute for Advanced Studies, convened in Clare Hall, Cambridge, England. Title of paper: “Quraysh and their winter and summer journey: On the interpretation of Sura 106”
2010 "Exodus: Border Crossings in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Texts and Images": Interdisciplinary Colloquium, 2^nd-4^th December 2010, Karl-Jaspers-Centre, Heidelberg. Title of paper: “The Israelite Exodus and the lost tribes in the Qurʾan and in Islamic tradition: further considerations”.
2011 “Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines.” Académie des inscriptions et belles-letters, Paris, March 2011. Title of paper: “On the early origins of the qurʾānic chronology of revelation”.
2012 “From Jahiliyya to Islam”, 12^th Colloquium, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of paper: “In Defense of the Qurʾanic Textus Receptus: The case of ṭuwan (Q 20:12; 79:16)”.
2013 'With God on Our Side': Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism, Christianity and Islam--An International Interreligious Studies Conference, 2-4 June, 2013, Tel Aviv University. Title of paper: “The Idea of Exodus and the Conquest of the Promised Land in the Qurʾān and the Early Islamic Tradition”.
2013 “The Sambatyon and Beyond: The Mythical River as a Border in Time and Space”, Yad Ben Zvi – Jerusalem. Title of paper: “Israelites beyond the Sambatyon: qurʾanic and post-qurʾanic perspectives”.
2017 “From Creation to Sinai: Jewish, Christian, and Qurʼanic Traditions in Interaction -- Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies. Title of paper: “The Israelite Exodus and the Promised Land: The Qurʾānic Viewpoint.”
2017 The Bible in Arabic: Jewish and Christian Translations, Muslim Interpretations. Tel Aviv University. Title of Paper: “The Book of Jubilees and the Qurʾān: The Case of Abraham and the Kaʿba.”

M.A. Students

work on thesis	name of student	title of thesis	institution
1992-95	A. Hakim	The Attitude of Muslim Tradition towards the Interpretation of the Qur^›an	Tel Aviv University
1992-95	A. Shnizer	The Relation between Qur^›an and Tradition with Respect to Prophetic Revelation	Tel Aviv University
2005-8	Odelia Levi	Abraham in Early Islamic Tradition	Tel Aviv University
2008-2012	Iqbal Abd al-Raziq	Idolatry and Idols in the Qurʾān and the Extra-Qurʾānic Sources	Tel Aviv University
2015-2017	Elimelech Grossmann	The Concepts of ribāṭ and thughūr in the Early Islamic Tradition and in the Contemporary Research, their Role in the Confrontation with the Byzantines, the Visigoths and the Franks during the First Three Centuries AH	Tel Aviv University

Ph.D. Students

Work on Thesis	Name of Student	Title of Thesis	Institution
1995-2004	Aliza Shnizer	The Collection of the Qur^›an; a Reappraisal of the Traditional Accounts	TelAvivUniversity
1996-2004	Avraham Hakim	The Image of `Umar as an Idealized Leader in Early Islamic Tradition	TelAvivUniversity

פרסומים

ראו גם:

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רשימת פרסומים זו כוללת בין השאר את הקוראן בעברית במהדורה חדשה מתוקנת ומורחבת.

BOOKS

בין ירושלים למכה: קדושה וגאולה בקוראן ובמסורת האסלאם. ירושלים 2019.

[Between Jerusalem and Mecca: Sanctity and Salvation in the Quran and the Islamic Tradition. Jerusalem 2019 (in Hebrew)].

הקוראן: דבר הקול האלוהי אל מוחמד השליח. ירושלים 2019.

[The Quran: The Divine Voice Speaks to Muhammad the Messenger. Jerusalem 2019 (in Hebrew)].

Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2011.
Between Bible and Qur'an: the Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image. The Darwin Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999.
.The Eye of the Beholder: the Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims (a Textual Analysis), The Darwin Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1995.

TRANSLATIONS

The Qur’an: Hebrew Translation from the Arabic with annotations. New Edition. Tel Aviv 2016 - הקוראן בתרגום עברי: מהדורה חדשה, מעודכנת ומורחבת. תל אביב, 2016
הקוראן: תרגם מערבית והוסיף הערות, נספחים ומפתח: אורי רובין. תל אביב
2005

EDITING

Uri Rubin (ed. and Introduction). The Life of Muhammad (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World: Vol. 4). Aldershot, 1998.
Uri Rubin and David J. Wasserstein (eds.). Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam. Israel Oriental Studies 17 (1997).

ARTICLES

Hebrew

'הארץ המובטחת ואחרית הימים בקוראן ובמסורת האסלאם', בתוך: יורם ארדר, אלינער ברקת, מאירה פוליאק (עורכים), יד משה: מחקרים לזכרו של משה גיל, תעודה כ"ט תשע"ח (2018), עמ' 329--351.

'בין מכה וירושלים: על מקורותיה הקדומים של קדושת ירושלים באסלאם' קשת החדשה 19(2007), עמ' 102--111.

'לשאלת אחדותו של הקוראן', בתוך: עיונים באסלאם הקדום: דברים שנאמרו ביום עיון לכבוד מאיר י' קיסטר במלאת לו תשעים שנה. האקדמיה הלאומית למדעים, ירושלים, תשס"ה (2005), עמ' 72--85.

'ארץ-ישראל ובני-ישראל במקורות האסלאם', קשת החדשה 2 (2002), עמ' 106--113.

'כיוון התפילה באסלאם – לתולדותיו של מאבק בין פולחני', היסטוריה 6 (תש"ס 2000), עמ' 5--29.

'"הנה נבקע הירח" (קוראן סורה 54 פס' 1--2): לגלגוליה של דמות מוחמד בין הקוראן והמסורת החוץ-קוראנית', בתוך: שרה קליין-ברסלבי, בנימין אברהמוב, יוסף סדן (עורכים), מנחה למיכאל: מחקרים בהגות יהודית ומוסלמית מוקדשים לפרופסור מיכאל שורץ (תל אביב, 1999), עמ' 141--157.

English

"The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem – A Second Kaʿba" [Submitted; in honor of a colleage]
“‘Become you apes, repelled!’ (Quran 7:166): The transformation of the Israelites into apes and its biblical and midrashic background”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 78, 1 (2015), 25–40.
“More light on Muḥammad’s pre-existence: Qurʾānic and post-Qurʾānic perspectives”, in Andrew Rippin and Roberto Tottoli, eds., Books and written culture of the Islamic world: studies presented to Claude Gilliot on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Brill, Islamic History and Civilization 113 (Leiden, Boston, 2015), pp. 288-311.
“Moses and the Holy Valley Ṭuwan: On the biblical and midrashic background of a qurʾānic scene,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73 no. 1 (2014), pp. 73-81.
“The Seal of the Prophets and the Finality of Prophecy,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 164/1 (2014), 65-96.
“‘A day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke’ (q 44:10-11): A comparative study of the qurʾānic and post-qurʾānic image of the Muslim prophet.” In Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Kees Versteegh and Joas Wagemakers (eds.), The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2011), pp. 251-278.
“Quraysh and their winter and summer journey: On the interpretation of Sura 106”, in Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. XIII.
“Muhammad’s message in Mecca: warnings, signs, and miracles, [The case of the splitting of the moon (Q 54:1-2)]”, in Jonathan E. Brockopp, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad (Cambridge, 2010), 39-60.
“On the Arabian Origins of the Quran: The Case of al-furqan”, Journal of Semitic Studies 54 (2009), 421-33. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. XV].
“Between Arabia and the Holy Land: A Mecca-Jerusalem Axis of Sanctity”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 34 (2008), 345-62. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. XI].
“Muhammad’s Night Journey (isra’) to al-Masjid al-Aqsa: Aspects of the Earliest Origins of the Islamic Sanctity of Jerusalem”, al-Qantara 29 (2008), 147-65. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. VII].
“The Hands of Abu Lahab and the Gazelle of the Ka'ba”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 33 (2007), 93-98. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. XII].
“Islamic Retellings of Biblical History”, in Y. Tzvi Langermann and Josef Stern (eds.), Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on the Interaction between Jewish and Islamic Thought and Literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Twentieth Century, Dedicated to Professor Joel L. Kraemer (Paris, 2007), 299-313.
“Qur’an and Poetry: More Data Concerning the Qur’anic jizya Verse (`an yadin),” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 31 (2006), 139-46.
“Prophets and Prophethood”, in A. Rippin (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Quran (Blackwell Publishing, 2006), 234-47.
“Muhammad the Exorcist: Aspects of Islamic-Jewish Polemics”. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 30 (2005), 94-111. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. V].
“Prophetic Charisma in the Quran”, in Giovanni Filoramo (ed.), Carisma Profetico: Fattore di Innovazione Religiosa (Brescia, 2003), pp. 175-190.
“Prophets and Caliphs: the Biblical Foundations of the Umayyad Authority,” in Herbert Berg (ed.), Method and Theology in the Study of Islamic origins (Leiden, 2003), 73-99.
“The life of Muhammad and the Qur'an: the case of Muhammad’s hijra.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 28 (2003), 40-64. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. VIII].
“Traditions in Transformation. The Ark of the Covenant and the Golden Calf in Biblical and Islamic Historiography.” Oriens 36 (2001), pp. 196-214.
“The Direction of Prayer in Islam: On the History of a Conflict Between Rituals”, Historia 6 (2000), 5--29 (In Hebrew).

"כיוון התפילה באסלאם – לתולדותיו של מאבק בין פולחני", היסטוריה 6 (תש"ס), עמ' 5--29.

“The life of Muhammad and the Islamic Self-Image: A Comparative Analysis of an Episode in the Campaigns of Badr and al-Ḥudaybiya”, in Harald Motzki (ed.), The Biography of Muhammad: the Issue of the Sources (Leiden, 2000), 3-17.
“Apes, Pigs, and the Islamic Identity”, Israel Oriental Studies 17 (1997), 89--105.
“Apocalypse and Authority in Islamic Tradition: The Emergence of the Twelve Leaders”, Al-Qantara 18 (1997), 11-42.
“Quran and Tafsir: The Case of ‘an yadin”, Der Islam 70 (1993), 133–144.
“Exegesis and Hadith: The Case of the Seven Mathani”, in G.R. Hawting and A.A. Shareef (eds.), Approaches to the Qur’an (London and New York, 1993), 141–56.
“The Shrouded Messenger: On the Interpretation of al-Muzzammil and al-Muddaththir”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16 (1993), 96–107. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. VI].
“Iqra’ bi-smi rabbika…: Some Notes on the Interpretation of Surat al-‘Alaq”, Israel Oriental Studies 13 (1993), 213–230.
“Al-Walad li-l-Firash: On the Islamic Campaign against Zina”, Studia Islamica 78 (1993), 5-26.
“The Assassination of Ka`b b. al-Ashraf”, Oriens 32 (1990), pp. 65-71.
“Hanifiyya and Ka`ba: An Inquiry into the Arabian Pre-Islamic Background of Din Ibrahim”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 13 (1990), 85–112. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. X].
“Meccan Trade and Qur'ānic Exegesis (Qur'an 2:198)”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 3 (1990), 421-428.
“Muhammad's Curse of Mudar and the Blockade of Mecca”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 3 (1988), 249-264.
“Morning and Evening Prayers in Early Islam”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 10 (1987), 40–64. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. XIV.
“The Ka`ba: Aspects of its Ritual Functions”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 8 (1986), pp. 97–131.
“The ‘Constitution of Medina’: Some Notes”, Studia Islamica 62 (1985), pp. 5–23.
“Al-Samad and the High God: An Interpretation of Sura CXII”, Der Islam 61 (1984), pp. 197–217.
.“The Ilaf of Quraysh: A Study of Sura CVI”, Arabica 31 (1984), 165–188.
“Bara’a: A Study of Some Qur'anic Passages”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 5 (1984), 13–31.
“The Great Pilgrimage of Muhammad: Some Notes on Sura IX”, Journal of Semitic Studies 27 (1982), 241–260.
“Prophets and Progenitors in the Early Shi`a Tradition”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 1 (1979), 41–65.
“Abu Lahab and Sura CXI”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 42 (1979), pp. 13-28.
“Pre-Existence and Light—Aspects of the Concept of Nur Muhammad”, Israel Oriental Studies 5 (1975), 62–119. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. IV].

ITEMS IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition, E.J. Brill, Leiden)

“Nur Muhammadi” (fascicule 131–32).
“Sa‘a” (section 3).
“Mala’” (Supplement volume).
“Na`l Sharif” (Supplement volume).

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Third Edition, E.J. Brill, Leiden)

“Abdallah b. `Abd al-Muttalib”.
“Abd al-Muttalib”.
“Abraha” [Revised version in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. IX].
“Abu Jahl”.
“Abu Qubays”.
“Abu Talib”.
“Ahmad”.
“Amina”.
“Amr b. Luhayy”.
“Aqil b. Abi Talib”.
“Arafat”.
“Budayl b. Warqa’”.
“Children of Israel”.
“Circumambulation”.

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2001-2006)

“Caravan” (vol. 1).
“Children of Israel”(vol. 1).
“Hafsa” (vol. 2).
“Hanif” (vol. 2).
“Ilaf“ (vol. 2).
“Israel” (vol. 2).
“Jews and Judaism” (vol. 3).
“Muhammad” (vol. 3). [Revised version: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. I].
“Prophets and Prophethood” (vol. 4). [Revised version: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. II].
“Oft-repeated” (vol. 3).
“Quraysh” (vol. 4).
“Remnants” (vol. 4).
“Races” (vol. 4)
“Repentance” (vol. 4).
“Sacred Precincts” (vol. 4, E.J. Brill, Leiden).
“Vehicles” (vol. 5).

Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vierte Auflage, Tübingen (2003)

“Medina”.
“Muhammad”.
“Prophets and Prophethood”.

The Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Macmillan Reference USA (2003)

“Asnam”.

Encyclopaedia Hebraica, 3rd supplement volume (1995) (in Hebrew)

“Abraham”.
“Islam”.
“Muhammad”.
“Qur’an”.

REVIEWS

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2. “J. Burton, Abu ‘Ubayd al-Qasim b. Sallam's K. al-Nasikh wa-l-mansukh...”, Der Islam 70 (1993), 167–170.

3. “R. Firestone, Journeys in Holy Lands: the Evolution of the Abraham–Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis”, Jerusalem studies in Arabic and Islam 17 (1994), 245–49.

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8. “Tottoli, Roberto. Biblical Prophets in the Qur›an and Muslim Literature. Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey, 2002.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 28 (2003), 397-99.

9. “Alan Dundes, Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Qur’an. Rowman & Littlefield Publishres, Inc., Lanham - Boulder - New York - Oxford, 2003.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 30 (2005), 526-27.

10. “Walid A. Salih, The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Qur’an Commentary of al-Tha`labi (d. 427/1035). Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2004. VII + 267 pp.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 30 (2005), 540-43.

11. Stefan Wild (ed.). Self-Referentiality in the Qur’an. Harrassovitz Verlag: Wiesbaden 2006. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 35 (2008), 433-40.