Angelika Neuwirth is professor emeritus of Qur’anic studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Samuel Wilder is a translator who has held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Orient-Institut Beirut. He lives in Berlin.
"Angelika Neuwirth has established herself as one of the world’s
foremost authorities on the study of the Qur’an. The publication
of The Qur’an: Text and Commentary presents an extraordinary
opportunity for English-speaking audiences to benefit from her
scholarship. Neuwirth strives to read the Qur’an as a late antique
text, and prioritizes the orality of the text. All serious
students of scholarship on the Qur’an would do well to engage
Neuwirth’s work here, and Yale University Press is to be
congratulated in bringing this English translation to light."—Omid
Safi, Duke University
“Neuwirth's work on interpreting the Quran has had a strong impact
far outside the world of Islamicists and Arabists, as well as
outside of academia. Her understanding of the holy book of Islam as
not only a late antique but also a ‘European’ text is an exciting
and thought-provoking new way of approaching it.”—Anders Winroth,
University of Oslo
“Neuwirth is a paradigm-changer in the field of late antique and
early Islamic studies—a philologist in the best possible sense. Her
holistic understanding of the Qur’an as both written text and oral
performance has placed her at the forefront of what is most
exciting in the now rejuvenated multi-disciplinary field of
Quranic studies.”—Elizabeth Key Fowden, University of Cambridge
“Neuwirth’s chronological Qur’an commentary, complete with Arabic
text and translation, has soon emerged as a standard work in the
field. Neuwirth focuses on a detailed literary and structural
analysis, and she reveals the manifold textual connections to the
monotheist tradition of the Eastern Mediterranean. This is a work
of great erudition by a leading scholar in Qur’anic studies.”—Frank
Griffel, Yale University
“This work is a meticulous exposition of early Meccan suras as
‘transcripts of a proclamation.’ Neuwirth's learned and always
supple analysis of textures, rhythm, sounds, and significations
illuminates each sura's poetic discourse. Simply put, no-one has
contributed more to our understanding of Meccan suras than Angelika
Neuwirth.”—Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University
![]() |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
![]() |