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French Quranic studies scholar

Mehdi Azaiez (born 1974) is a French Quranic studies scholar and professor of Islamic studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Biography

Mehdi Azaiez was born in Paris in 1974. He served as an assistant professor of Islamic theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven between 2014 and 2019. Before that, during 2012–2013, he taught Islamic studies and co-directed the international Qur’ân Seminar project at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States. From 2013, he has been a member of the Publications and Research Committee for the International Quranic Studies Association. He also founded and edits the website Quran and Early Islam, which focuses on Quranic studies.

Works

As author
  • Le contre-discours coranique (The Quranic Counter-discourse) (2015)
As editor
  • Le Coran: nouvelles approches (The Quran: New Approaches) (2013)
  • The Qur'an Seminar Commentary / Le Qur'an Seminar. A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages / Commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques (2017)
  • Le Coran : de la tribu à l’empire. Autour de l’œuvre de Jacqueline Chabbi (The Quran: from tribe to empire. Around the work of Jacqueline Chabbi) (2023)
  • Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis (2023)
  • Itinerant Prophets:Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam (2025) with Rémy Gareil and Iyas Hassan

See also

References

  1. Center, Berkley; Affairs, World. "Mehdi Azaiez". Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
  2. ^ "Mehdi Azaiez". Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen KU Leuven. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
  3. "Mehdi Azaiez". Pluriel. 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
  4. Reviews of Le contre-discours coranique:
  5. Reviews of Le Coran : nouvelles approches:
    • Terrier, Mathieu (2016-09-01). "Le Coran, nouvelles approches, sous la direction de Mehdi Azaiez, avec la collaboration de Sabrina Mervin: Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2013". Revue de l'histoire des religions (233): 431–434. doi:10.4000/rhr.8596. ISSN 0035-1423.
    • Denkha, Ataa (2014-12-15). "Le Coran. Nouvelles approches: Sous la direction de Mehdi Azaiez, en collaboration avec Sabrina Mervin, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2013, 350 p.". Revue des sciences religieuses (88/4): 557. doi:10.4000/rsr.9019. ISSN 0035-2217.
  6. Reviews of Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis:
    • Belhaj, Abdessamad (2024-03-20). "Qurʾānic Studies between History, Theology and Exegesis Qurʾānic Studies between History, Theology and Exegesis, edited by Mehdi Azaiez and Mokdad Arfa-Mensia". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations: 1–3. doi:10.1080/09596410.2024.2330220. ISSN 0959-6410.
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