Mustafa Shah is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the Near and Middle East Department, SOAS. His principal research and teaching interests include early Arabic linguistic thought; theology and jurisprudence; and Qur’anic hermeneutics and exegesis. He has recently edited a four-volume collection of published articles on Qur’anic commentary entitled Tafsir: Interpreting the Qur’an (Routledge, 2013) and a similar work devoted to the Prophetic traditions, The Hadith (Routledge, 2010). Previously, he has published articles on the subject of Qur’anic readings, the early Arabic linguistic tradition, and aspects of theological thought. More recently, as well as contributing to various projects such as the Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (E.J. Brill) and the Oxford Bibliographies Online: Arabic and Islam: an annotated introduction and bibliography (Oxford University Press, 2010), he has been working on a number of monographs and articles including Interpreting the Qur’an: Classical Hermeneutics (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).
This series seeks to provide a forum for the publication of research-based monographs in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Principally covering the early and medieval historical periods, and encompassing a range of disciplinary perspectives and approaches, it will seek to promote academic scholarship devoted to the classical Islamic sciences, including traditions of learning such as Qur’anic exegesis, hermeneutics, law, theology, linguistic thought, Sufism, the Hadith and studies on the medieval genres of Arabic biography and history. Additionally, with the objective of making available primary Arabic literary sources, original academic studies that include critically edited editions of important classical manuscripts will also be considered for publication. The series aims to foster an engagement with the literary sources, concepts and constructs that defined early and classical expressions of Islamic thought.
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