Introduction : the golden age of Qur'ānic studies? / Gabriel Said Reynolds The historian, the believer, and the Qur'ān / Fred M. Donner Studies in Qur'ānic vocabulary : the problem of the dictionary / Andrew Rippin Towards understanding the Qur'ān's worldview : an autobiographical reflection / Nasr Abu Zayd The Jews of the Hijaz in the Qur'ān and in their inscriptions / Robert G. Hoyland The usage of ancient South Arabian and other Arabian languages as an etymological source for Qur'ānic vocabulary / Hani Hayajneh Vowel letters and ortho-epic writing in the Qur'ān / Gerd-R. Puin Hapaxes in the Qur'ān : identifying and cataloguing lone words (and loanwords) / Shawkat M. Toorawa Tripartite, but anti-Trinitarian formulas in the Qur'ānic corpus, possibly pre-Qur'ānic / Manfred Kropp Angels, stars, death, the soul, horses, bows or women? The opening verses of Qur'ān 79 / Munther Younes Al-Najm (Q 53), Chapter of the Star : a new Syro-Aramaic reading of verses 1 to 18 / Christoph Luxenberg Al-Naṣārā in the Qur'ān : a hermeneutical reflection / Sidney Griffith
The mysterious letters and other formal features of the Qur'ān in light of Greek and Babylonian oracular texts / Devin J. Stewart
Does the Qur'ān deny or assert Jesus's crucifixion and death? / Suleiman A. Mourad
Early Christian Arabic texts : evidence for non-ʻUthmānic Qur'ān codices, or early approaches to the Qur'ān? / Clare Wilde
"Has God sent a mortal as a messenger?" (Q 17:95) : messengers and angels in the Qur'ān / Gerald Hawting
Is there a notion of "divine election" in the Qur'ān? / Reuven Firestone
Lot's daughters in the Qur'ān : an investigation through the lens of intertextuality / Waleed Ahmed
Joseph among the Ishmaelites : Q 12 in light of Syriac sources / Joseph Witztum
Condemnation in the Qur'ān and the Syriac Gospel of Matthew / Emran El-Badawi
The Qur'ānic pharaoh / Adam Silverstein.