ReOrient
Volume 9 • Number 1 • Autumn 2024
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ISSN 2055–5601 (Print)
ISSN 2055–561X (Online)
ReOrient
EDITOR
S. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UK
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Haroon Bashir, Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK
Uzma Jamil, McGill University, Canada
Santiago Slabodsky, Hofstra University, USA
AbdoolKarim Vakil, Kings College London, UK
EDITORIAL BOARD
Yasin Aktay, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Freie Universität, Germany
Warren Chin, Kings College London, UK
Nadia Fadil, KU Leuven, Belgium
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, USA
Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University, USA
Ruth Mas, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Society, Freie Universität, Germany
Shaireen Rasheed, Long Island University, USA
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Shvetal Vyas Pare, Flinders University, Australia
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Talal Asad, City University of New York, USA
Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University, USA
Galip Dalay, Al Sharq Forum, Turkey
Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Adnan Husain, Queen’s University, Canada
Brian Klug, St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Karima Laachir, Australian National University, Australia
Asma Lamrabet, Rabita Mohammadia of the Moroccan Ulema, Morocco
Elena Arigita Maza, University of Granada, Spain
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ella Shohat, New York University, USA
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
ReOrient will publish original articles in English of between 7,000 and 10,000 words (including bibliography). Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration elsewhere. All articles are submitted to blind peer reviewing by at least two referees. Final decisions on publication remain with the Editorial Board.
For full guidelines please go to: http://www.plutojournals.com/reorient-guidelines/
Contents
Toward a Post-Orientalist Conception of Qur’anic Studies 4
Tehseen Thaver
Early Medinan Suras: The Birth of Politics in the Qur’an 10
Walid Saleh
Notes on the Siege’s Aftermath and Gendered Rhetoric in the Qur’an: Towards a Reconsideration of Q. 33:34 27
Ash Geissinger
Finding the Qur’an in Imitation: Critical Mimesis from Musaylima to Finnegans Wake 50
William Sherman
In Search of Chronology: Narratives of Qur’anic Evolution in Western Academia 70
Emmanuelle Stefanidis
Retrieving the Senses in Qur’anic Exegetical Texts: Shaykh Abu al-Futuh Razi’s Persian Qur’an Commentary 96
Tehseen Thaver
Qur’anic Orality and Textual Epistemologies of the Humanities 114
Lauren Osborne
Ignoring the Bible in Qur’anic Studies Scholarship of the Late Twentieth Century 131
Devin J. Stewart
Book Reviews
David Theo Goldberg (2023) The War on Critical Race Theory: or, The Remaking of Racism 170
Izram Chaudry
Kanjwal, H. (July 2023) Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building under Indian Occupation. Series: South Asia in Motion 174
Abdulla Moaswes
Darryl Li. The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity 178
Basit Kareem Iqbal
Nicolás Panotto and Luis Martínez Andrade. Decolonizing Liberation Theologies: Past, Present, and Future 184
MT Dávila, Merrimack College