The Qur’an as a Source for Late Antiquity

Project Information

QaSLA

Grant agreement ID: 866043

DOI

10.3030/866043

EC signature date 3 March 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 969 101,00

EU contribution

€ 1 969 101,00

Coordinated by

EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN
Germany

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Publications

Book chapters (7)

Beyond Ring Composition: A Comparison of Formal Features in Sūrat al-ʿAlaq (Q 96) and Bavli Bava Batra 8a

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Structural Dividers in the Qur'an, Issue December 4 2020, 2020, Page(s) 54-91, ISBN 9780367800055
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003010456-4

Zwischen Bibel und Byzanz: „Verderben auf der Erde“ (fasād fi l‑arḍ) und die koranische Strafgesetzgebung,“

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Normativiät – Religion - Mobilität, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 113-45
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-161999-1

What Falls Within Judaism According to the Qur'an? Q 5 Sūrat al-Māʾida 44–47 as Critique of Mishnah Avot 1:1

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Within Judaism? Interpretive Trajectories in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the First to the Twenty-First Century, 2023, Page(s) 282-308
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15462640

“One Letter yud Shall not Pass Away from the Law”: Matthew 5:17 to Bavli Shabbat 116a–b

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 2025, Page(s) 204-258, ISBN 9789004471160
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004471160_010

‘Honour with Silence the Words of Your Creator’: Moses’ Silence in bMenaḥot 29b in Light of its Jewish and Christian Context

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Syriac Theology: Past and Present, Issue 2022, 2022, Page(s) 183-208
Publisher: Brill | Schöningh
DOI: 10.30965/9783657793396_010

The earliest translation of the Quran in Ethiopia

Author(s): Stefanie Rudolf
Published in: Qur'ān in Ethiopia, 2025, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: Routledge Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15678242

Jesus’ Miracles in the Qur’an and in Toledot Yeshu

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue, 2025, Page(s) 21-55
Publisher: Brill | Schöningh
DOI: 10.30965/9783657797264_003

Peer reviewed articles (13)

The Christian Elephant in the Meccan Room: Dye, Tesei, and Shoemaker on the Date of the Qurʾān

Author(s): Nicolai Sinai
Published in: Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 57-118, ISSN 2474-8390
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/jiqsa-2023-0013

The Qurʾān as a Historical Source

Author(s): James Howard-Johnston
Published in: Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 46-56, ISSN 2474-8390
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/jiqsa-2024-0006

The Development of the Hijazi Orthography

Author(s): Marijn van Putten
Published in: Millennium, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 107-128, ISSN 1867-030X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mill-2023-0007

The Inner-qurʾānic Development of the Image of Women in Paradise: From the ḥūr ʿīn to Believing Women

Author(s): Ana Davitashvili
Published in: Journal of International Qurʾanic Studies Association, Issue 7, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 27-64, ISSN 2474-8420
Publisher: Lockwood
DOI: 10.5913/jiqsa.7.2022.a002

From the Aramaic raḥmānāʾ to raḥmānān and al-raḥmān

Author(s): Maria Gorea
Published in: Millennium, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 91-106, ISSN 1867-030X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mill-2023-0006

The Hajj Before Muhammad: The Early Evidence in Poetry and Hadith

Author(s): Peter Webb
Published in: Millennium, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 33-63, ISSN 1867-030X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mill-2023-0004

Introduction. Epigraphy, the Qurʾān, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia

Author(s): Valentina A. Grasso, Ana Davitashvili, Nadja Abuhussein
Published in: Millennium, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1867-030X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mill-2023-0002

Pilgrimage in Pre-Islamic Arabia: Continuity and Rupture from Epigraphic Texts to the Qur’an

Author(s): Suleyman Dost
Published in: Millennium, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 15-32, ISSN 1867-030X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mill-2023-0003

Arabness Before Islam: Views from the Poetry and the Nasab Literature

Author(s): Raashid Goyal
Published in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, Issue 56, 2025, 2025, Page(s) 1-124, ISSN 0334-4118
Publisher: The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation
DOI: 10.17613/xbvwj-31k54

banū isrāʾīl, ahl al-kitāb, al-yahūd wa-l-naṣārā: The Qur’anic Community’s Encounters with Jews and Christians

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Entangled Religions: Muslim Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations, Issue Vol. 13 No. 2, 2023, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Ruhr Universitat
DOI: 10.46586/er.13.2023.10991

Slavery in First Millennium Arabia: Epigraphy and the Qurʾān

Author(s): Valentina A. Grasso
Published in: Millennium, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) 65-89, ISSN 1867-030X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mill-2023-0005

Defining “Romans” in the Late Antique Near East: Some Preliminary Thoughts on the “Romans” in Sūrat al-Rūm

Author(s): Nestor Kavvadas
Published in: Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 119-141, ISSN 2474-8390
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/jiqsa-2024-0001

Sealing and the Root kh-t-m in the Qurʾan and pre-Islamic Christian Literature: On the ʿSeal of the Prophetsʾ and Disbelievers Having ʿSeals on Their Hearts and Hearing.ʾ

Author(s): Ana Davitashvili
Published in: Der Islam, 2025, Page(s) 1-33, ISSN 1613-0928
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15650256

Monographic books (1)

Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an

Author(s): Holger Zellentin
Published in: Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions, Issue 2022, 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199675579.002.0004

Other (3)

Review of Decharneux, Julien: Creation and Contemplation. The Cosmology of the Qurʾān and its Late Antique Background. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023 (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 47).

Author(s): Ana Davitashvili
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 114 (2024), 2024, Page(s) 393-395
Publisher: University of Vienna
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15649609

Book Review: Joachim Jakob: Syrisches Christentum und früher Islam. Theologische Reaktionen in syrisch-sprachigen Texten vom 7. bis 9. Jahrhundert. 2021

Author(s): Ana Davitashvili
Published in: Review of Qurʾanic Research, Issue Vol. 8, no. 2, 2022, 2022
Publisher: Review of Qur'anic Research
DOI: 10.5913/rqr2022v8.02

Book Review: Karim Samji: The Qurʾān. A Form-Critical History. 2018

Author(s): Ana Davitashvili
Published in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Issue 117 (1), 2022, 2022, Page(s) 53-55.
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/olzg-2022-0018