Studies by Qur’ānic sūra

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The Lost Sūras

Studies on collections of Qur’ānic sūras

1. الفاتحة   al-Fātiḥa

Cuypers, M: Une brève présentation de l’« Analyse rhétorique » dans le Coran L’exemple de la Fâtiha.

Feuvrier, A: La Sourate Fatiha, Etude de quelques mots-clés du vocabulaire religieux de l’Islam.

2. البقرة   al-Baqara

Anthony, S : Further Notes on the Word Ṣibgha in Qurʾan 2:138, Journal of Semitic Studies 59.1 (Spring 2014): 117-129.

Galadari, A: The Red Cow: The Qur’an and the Midrash in Nelson, W and Ulmer, R: Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash, pp.13-49.

Klar, M: ‘Text-Critical Approaches to Sura Structure: Combining Synchronicity with Diachronicity in Sūrat al-Baqara. Part One’ in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 19.1 (2017): 1–38.

Klar, M: Text-Critical Approaches to Sura Structure: Combining Synchronicity with Diachronicity in Sūrat al-Baqara. Part Two in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 19.2 (2017): 64–105.

Leicht, R: The Qurʾanic Commandment of Writing Down Loan Agreements (Q 2:282)—Perspectives of a Comparison with Rabbinical Law in Neuwirth, A; Sinai, N; Marx, M: The Qur’an in Context, Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur’ānic Milieu  from Böwering, G; McAuliffe, J: Texts and Studies on the Qur’ān, Vol.6, Brill 2010.pp.593-614.

Rubinstein-Shemer, N: ‘Observe the Prayers and the Middle Prayer’: Jewish and Christian Origins of Q. 2:238. ZDMG, Band 168 – Heft 2 (2018) pp.353-372.

Schmitz, B: Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Judentum und Christentum als Grundlage des Entstehungsprozesses des Islams in der Interpretation von Vers 124 bis 141 der zweiten Sure in Nagel, T (ed.): Der Koran Und Sein Religiöses Und Kulturelles Umfeldpp.217-238.

3. آل عمران  Āl ‘Imrān

Bouvard, P: Un Coran terminé en 700 ? La troisième sourate nous éclaire.

Un des nœuds de désaccord entre islamologues sur lequel repose toute la chronologie est la période à laquelle la rédaction du Coran s’est achevée.  Selon l’histoire traditionnelle, il s’agit de 650 environ, avec le Coran dit d’Othman. Pour de très nombreux islamologues, le Coran était terminé vers l’an 700. Enfin, d’autres islamologues occidentaux nous donnent des dates ultérieures, avec la création de sourates sous les Abbassides.

Luxenberg, C : Kein “Mekka” und kein “Bakka” im Qur’ān; zu Sure 48:24 und 3:96 Eine philologische Analyse.

Neuwirth, A: Mary and Jesus – Counterbalancing the Biblical Patriarchs – A re-reading of sūrat Maryam in sūrat Āl ‘Imrān (Q 3:1-62) Parole de l’Orient 30 (2005) 231-260.

4. النساء    al-Nisā’

Kropp, M and Kerr, R: Mystisches Hören ohne zu hören, oder: Mit mir nuschelt man nicht ! in Imprimatur, pp.46-52.

5. المائدة   al-Mā’ida

Cuypers, MLe Festin, Une lecture de la sourate al-Mâ’ida. Rhétorique sémitique. Paris: Lethielleux, 2007.

Cuypers, M :  في نظم صورة المائدة – نظم آي القرآن في ضوء منهج التحليل البلاغي (‘On the composition of the Sūrat al-Mā’ida – the Composition of Qur’ānic Verses in the Light of Rhetorical Analysis Methodology’) Tr. of Le Festin, Une lecture de la sourate al-Mâ’ida by ‘A Sālih, Dār al-Mashriq, Beirut.

Cuypers, MThe Banquet – A Reading of the fifth Sura of the Qur’ān, Series Rhetorica Semitica 2008.

Griffith, S: Syriacisms In the “Arabic Qur’ān”: Who were “those who said ‘Allah is third of three’” according to al-Ma’ida 73? in A Word Fitly Spoken, Studies in Mediaeval Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān,Jerusalem 2007, pp.83-110.

Grypeou, EThe Table from Heaven: A Note on Qur’ān, Sūrah 5,111 ff., Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 2 (2005): 311-316.

Goudarzi M: Mecca’s Cult and Medina’s Constitution in the Qurʾān: A New Reading of al-Māʾidah in Der Islam2024; 101 (1): 25–73

Goudarzi M: The Eucharist in the Qur’ān – incomplete here

Goudarzi, M: The Qur’an’s Cultic Trinity: Marian Piety in Late Antiquity and the Qur’ān in Journal of Late Antiquity 2025. On the Qur’ānic  suggestion that Christians divinized Mary.

Lowin, S: “The Jews Say the Hand of God is Chained”: Q. 5:64 as a response to a midrash in a piyyut by R. El`azar ha-Kallir in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 2019.

Robinson, NHands Outstretched: Towards a Re-reading of Sūrat al-Mā’ida. Journal of Qur’ānic Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 1-19.

Reynolds, G: On the Qurʾān’s Māʾida Passage and the Wanderings of the Israelites  in in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012,  pp.91-108.

6. الأنعام   al-An‘ām

7. الأعراف   al-A‘rāf

Rubin, U:‘Become you apes, repelled!’ (Quran 7:166): The transformation of the Israelites into apes and its biblical and midrashic background.Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 78, 1 (2015), 25–40.

Segovia, C: Thematic and structural affinities between 1 Enoch 2:1-5:4 and Qur’ān 7:36; 10:6; 16:81; 24:41,44,46 in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012, pp.239-250.

Silverstein, A: Unmasking Maskh: The transformation of Jews into “apes, driven away” (Qur’an 7: 166) in Near Eastern context in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 49 (2020).

Soomro, T: The Prophet Muhammad and Isaiah 42.

8. الأنفال   al-Anfāl

Hawting, G: Qur’ān and Sīra: the Relationship between Sūrat al-Anfāl and Muslim Traditional Accounts of the Battle of Badr in Déroche, F et al : Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et la Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, les 3 et 4 mars 2011, Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2015, pp.75-92.

9. التوبة    al-Tawba

Rubin, U: The Great Pilgrimage of Muhammad: Some Notes on Sura IX in Journal of Semitic Studies 27 (1982), 241–260.

Rubin, UThe life of Muḥammad and the Qur’ān: the case of Muḥammad’s hijra. JSAI 28 (2003) (on the biblical and midrashic background to Muhammad’s shelter in the cave [Q 9:40]). 

Wilde, C: “They Wish to Extinguish the Light of God with Their Mouths” (Qurʾān 9:32): A Qurʾānic Critique of Late Antique Scholasticism?  from IV International Syriac Symposium, Princeton, NJ.

10. يونس    Yūnus

Segovia, C: Thematic and structural affinities between 1 Enoch 2:1-5:4 and Qur’ān 7:36; 10:6; 16:81; 24:41,44,46 in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012, pp.239-250.

11. هود      Hūd

Reynolds, G: Reading the Qur’ān as Homily: the Case of Sarah’s Laughter, in Neuwirth, A; Sinai, N; Marx, M: The Qur’an in Context, Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur’ānic Milieu  from Böwering, G; McAuliffe, J: Texts and Studies on the Qur’ān, Vol.6, Brill 2010, pp.585-592.

Dost, S: Once again on Noah’s lost son in the Qur’ān: the Enochic connection in ASIA 2022; 76(2): 371–388.

12. يوسف   Yūsuf

Cuypers, M: Structures rhétoriques dans le Coran. Une analyse structurelle de la sourate “Joseph”, MIDEO 22 (1994). (4.5 MB)

Haase, F: Comparison of the Hebrew Writings and Bible (Genesis 37-42) with Quranic Sura Yusuf as Example for Cultural Adaption(A Study of a Cross-Cultural Differentiation Process of Textual and Oral Traditions for Religious Writings Under the Historical Conditions of Middle East Societies) in Journal of Religious Culture, No. 105 (2008).

Witztum, J: Joseph among the Ishmaelites: Q 12 in Light of Syriac Sources, in New Perspectives on the Qur’ān: The Qur’ān in its Historical Context 2Edited by Reynolds, Gabriel Said: Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān. London / New York: Routledge, 2011. Pages 425-448.

13. الرعد     al-Ra’d

14. إبراهيم  Ibrāhīm

15. الحجر   al-Ḥijr

16. النحل    al-Naḥl

Segovia, C: Thematic and structural affinities between 1 Enoch 2:1-5:4 and Qur’ān 7:36; 10:6; 16:81; 24:41,44,46 in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012, pp.239-250.

17. الإسراء   al-Isrā’

Beck, D: Muhammad’s Night Journey in its Palestinian Context: a Perfect Solution to a Forgotten Problem (Q 17:1)

Gilliot, C: Coran 17, Isrā’, dans la recherche occidentale. De la critique des traditions au Coran comme textein M. Amir-Moezzi (dir.) Le voyage initiatique en terre d’Islam, 1996, pp.1-26.

Hawting, G: ‘Has God sent a mortal as a messenger?’ (Qur’ān 17:95); messengers and angels in the Qur’ān in Reynolds, G (ed): New Perspectives on the Qur’ān – The Qur’ān in its historical context 2  Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān. London / New York: Routledge, 2011. pp.372-390.

Rubin, U: Muhammad’s Night Journey (isra’) to al-Masjid al-Aqsa: Aspects of the Earliest Origins of the Islamic Sanctity of Jerusalem. From al-Qantara 29 (2008), 147-65. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. VII.

18. الكهف   al-Kahf

Griffith, S: The ‘Companions of the Cave’ in Sūrat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian tradition in Reynolds, G (ed.) The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, Routledge 2008, pp.109-137.

Kerr, R: Religionsgeschichtliche Überlegungen zu Sure 18 in Imprimatur, Heft 1, 2017.

Klar, M: ‘Re-examining Textual Boundaries: Towards a Form-Critical Sūrat al-Kahf’ in Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin (ed. Walid A. Saleh and Majid Daneshgar) 2016.

Tesei, T: Some Cosmological Notions from Late Antiquity in Q 18:60–65: The Quran in Light of Its Cultural Context.Journal of the American Oriental Society 135,1 (2015) 19-32.

Tesei, T: The Prophecy of Ḏū-l-Qarnayn (Q 18 :83-102) and the Origins of the Qur’ānic CorpusVan Leer Jerusalem Institute. On the Syriac apocalyptic work Neṣḥānā d-leh d-Aleksandrōs, “the victory of Alexander” as the likely source for the Qur’ānic version of the Prophecy of Dhū al-Qarnayn, given the same narrative structure and editing of the tale that appears in both works.

Van Bladel, K: The Alexander Legend in the Qur’ān 18:83-102 in The Qur’ān in its Historical Context. Edited by Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān. London / New York: Routledge, 2007. Pages 175-203.

19. مريم      Maryam

Anthony, S: The Virgin Annunciate in the Meccan Qur’an: Q. Maryam 19:19 in Context in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (2022).

20. طه        Ṭā Ḥā

Putten, M Van: Are these Nothing but Sorcerers? – A linguistic analysis of Q Ṭā-Hā 20:63 using intra-Qurʾānic parallels in J. Int. Qur’anic Stud. Assoc. 2023; 8(1): 100–114.

Rippin, A: The Search for Ṭuwā: Exegetical Method, Past and Present in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012,  pp. 399-422.

Rubin, U: Moses and the Holy Valley Ṭuwan: On the biblical and midrashic background of a qurʾānic scene. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73 no. 1 (2014), 73-81.

21. الأنبياء   al-Anbiyā’

22. الحج     al-Ḥajj

Abdeljalil, M-A: L’analyse du Coran à la lumière de la déconstruction de Derrida, La sourate XXII (Al-Ḥajj) comme modèle.

23. المؤمنون    al-Mu’minūn

Robinson, N: The Structure and Interpretation of Sūrat al-Mu’minūn, in 
Journal of Qur’anic Studies (2000).

24. النور     al-Nūr

Segovia, C: Thematic and structural affinities between 1 Enoch 2:1-5:4 and Qur’ān 7:36; 10:6; 16:81; 24:41,44,46 in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012, pp.239-250.

25. الفرقان  al-Furqān

26. الشعراء  al-Shu‘arā’

Griffith, S: The Sunna of our Messengers’, the Qur’ān’s Paradigm for Messengers and Prophets; a Reading of Sūrat ash-Shuʽarā’ (26) in Neuwirth, A; Sells, M (edd): Qur’ānic Studies Today,  Routledge, pp.207-227.

Shahid, I: The Sura of the Poets, Qur’ān XXVI: Final conclusions in Journal of Arabic Literature, XXXV, 2.

27. النمل     al-Naml

Retsö, J: The Contradictory Revelation – a reading of Sura 27:16-44 and 34:15-21Micro-Level Analyses of the Qur’an ed. H. Rydving (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Historia religionum 34) Uppsala 2014 pp. 95-103.

28. القصص   al-Qaṣaṣ

29. العنكبوت   al-‘Ankabūt

30. الروم     al-Rūm

Bollen, J: LES ROMAINS » Analyse Rhétorique De La Sourate 30.

Silverstein, A: Q30: 2-5 in Near Eastern Context, in Der Islam 2020; 97 (1): 11–42.

Tesei, T: ‘The Romans will win’ Q 30:2‒7 in Light of 7th c. Political Eschatology. Der Islam 2018; 95 (1): 1–29.

31. لقمان    Luqmān

Bashear, S“Abraham’s Sacrifice of His Son and Related Issues.” Der Islam 67.2 (1990): 243–277.

Bollen, J: Luqman : Une Analyse Rhétorique De La Sourate 31.

32. السجدة al-Sajda

Bollen, J: La Sourate « La Prosternation » (32) : Analyse Rhetorique’

33. الأحزاب al-Aḥzāb

34. سبإ       Saba’

Retsö, J: The Contradictory Revelation – a reading of Sura 27:16-44 and 34:15-21Micro-Level Analyses of the Qur’an ed. H. Rydving (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Historia religionum 34) Uppsala 2014 pp. 95-103.

35. فاطر     Fāṭir

36. يس       Yā Sīn

Bollen, J: La Sourate Ya Sin (analyse rhétorique).

Zellentin, H: “The Synchronic and the Diachronic Qurʾān: Sūrat Yā Sīn, Lot’s People, and the Rabbis,” in Asma Hilali and S. R. Burge (eds.), The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The Fragment and the Whole (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2019), 111-172.

37. الصافات   al-Ṣāffāt

Bashear, S“Abraham’s Sacrifice of His Son and Related Issues.” Der Islam 67.2 (1990): 243–277.

38. ص        Ṣād

39. الزمر     al-Zumar

40. غافر      Ghāfir

41. فصلت   Fuṣṣilat

42. الشورى  al-Shūrā

43. الزخرف al-Zukhruf

44. الدخان  al-Dukhān

Rubin, U: “‘A day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke’ (q 44:10-11): A comparative study of the qurʾānic and post-qurʾānic image of the Muslim prophet” in Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Kees Versteegh and Joas Wagemakers (eds.), The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2011), pp. 251-78.

45. الجاثية  al-Jāthiya

46. الأحقاف   al-Aḥqāf

47. محمد    Muḥammad

48. الفتح     al-Fatḥ

Luxenberg, C : Kein “Mekka” und kein “Bakka” im Qur’ān; zu Sure 48:24 und 3:96 Eine philologische Analyse.

49. الحجرات   al-Ḥujurāt

50. ق   Qāf

51. الذاريات   al-Dhāriyāt

52. الطور    al-Ṭūr

53. النجم    al-Najm

Badawi, I – Q 53: Contesting Female Power in Badawi, I: Female Divinity in the Qur’ān: In Conversation with the Bible and the Ancient Near East, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp.139-156

Cúrto, S: Qur’anic Internal Prophetic Theophany in Sūrat al-Najm and Sūrat al-Takwīr: An Intra-and Extra-Textual Exegesis in Journal of Qur’ānic Studies, 2021.

Luxenberg, C: Al-Najm (Q 53), Chapter of the Star: a new Syro-Aramaic reading of verses 1 to 18 in Reynolds, G (ed): New Perspectives on the Qur’ān – The Qur’ān in its historical context 2 from Rippin, A (ed): Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān, Routledge 2011, pp.279-298. (French translation): Sūrat an-Nağm.

Neuenkirchen, P: Visions et Ascensions: Deux Péricopes Coraniques à la Lumière d’un Apocryphe Chrétienin  Journal Asiatique 302.2 (2014): 303-347. (Sūras 53 and 81).

Sinai, N: An Interpretation of Sūrat al-Najm (Q. 53), in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 13.2 (2011): 1–28.

54. القمر     al-Qamar

Rubin, U: Muhammad’s message in Mecca: warnings, signs, and miracles” [The case of the splitting of the moon (Q 54:1-2)] in The Cambridge Companion to Muḥammad, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.39-60.

55. الرحمن  al-Raḥmān

Cuypers, M: La Sourate 55 (al-Raḥmān) et le Psautier, Luqmān, 37, Téhéran, Mélanges in Memoriam Javâd Hadidi, 2002-3.

56. الواقعة  al-Wāqi‘a

Segovia, C: “Those on the Right” and “Those on the Left”: Rereading Qur’ān 56, 1-56 (and the Founding Myth of Islam) in Light of Apocalypse of Abraham 21–2.  Paper presented at the symposium “La religion de l’autre. Lectures de l’altérité religieuse dans le judaisme, le christianisme et l’islam, de l’Antiquité tardive à nos jours – Apocalyptique et figures du mal,” Université Libre de Bruxelles.

57. الحديد  al-Ḥadīd

58. المجادلة   al-Mujādila

59. الحشر   al-Ḥashr

60. الممتحنة   al-Mumtaḥana

61. الصف   al-Ṣaff

62. الجمعة  al-Jumu‘a

63. المنافقون   al-Munāfiqūn

64. التغابن   al-Taghābun

65. الطلاق   al-Ṭalāq

66. التحريم  al-Taḥrīm

67. الملك    al-Mulk

68. القلم     al-Qalam

69. الحاقة   al-Ḥāqqa

70. المعارج  al-Ma‘ārij

71. نوح       Nūḥ

72. الجن     al-Jinn

73. المزمل   al-Muzzammil

Rubin, U: The Shrouded Messenger: On the Interpretation of al-Muzzammil and al-Muddaththir  in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16 (1993), pp.96-107.

74. المدثر   al-Muddaththir

Larbes, S: Analyse rhétorique de la sourate 74, al-Muddaththir.

Rubin, U: The Shrouded Messenger: On the Interpretation of al-Muzzammil and al-Muddaththir  in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16 (1993), pp.96-107.

75. القيامة   al-Qiyāma

76. الانسان  al-Insān

Tottoli, R: The Qur’an, Qur’anic Exegesis and Muslim Traditions: The Case of zamharīr (Q. 76:13) Among Hell’s Punishments in  Journal of Quranic Studies, 2008.

77. المرسلات   al-Mursalāt

78. النبإ       al-Naba’

Menant, A: La Grande prophétie – Analyse rhétorique de la Sourate Al Naba.

79. النازعات   al-Nāzi‘āt

Younes, M: ‘Angels, stars, death, the soul, horses, bows – or women? The opening verses of Qur’ān 79’, in Reynolds, G (ed): New Perspectives on the Qur’ān – The Qur’ān in its historical context 2 Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān. London / New York: Routledge, 2011, pp.265-278.

80. عبس     ‘Abasa

81. التكوير  al-Takwīr

Cúrto, S: Qur’anic Internal Prophetic Theophany in Sūrat al-Najm and Sūrat al-Takwīr: An Intra-and Extra-Textual Exegesis in Journal of Qur’ānic Studies, 2021.

Cuypers, M : La sourate 81, « L’obscurcissement », et le chapitre 10 du Testament de Moïse.

Günther, S: “When the Sun is Shrouded in Darkness and the Stars are Dimmed” (Qurʾan 81:1–2). Imagery, Rhetoric and Doctrinal Instruction in Muslim Apocalyptic Literature, in Wieser, V, Eltschinger, V and Heiss, J: Cultures of Eschatology,Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities – Volume 2: Time, Death and Afterlife in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities. De Gruyter, 2020, pp.66-83

Neuenkirchen, P: Visions et Ascensions: Deux Péricopes Coraniques à la Lumière d’un Apocryphe Chrétienin  Journal Asiatique 302.2 (2014): 303-347. (Sūras 53 and 81).

82. الإنفطار   al-Infiṭār

83. المطففين   al-Muṭaffifīn

84. الإنشقاق       al-Inshiqāq

85. البروج    al-Burūj

Beck, D: Quranic Fire and Quranic Sins: The Eschatological Curses of Q 111 (Sūrat Al-Masad) and Q 85 (Sūrat Al-Burūğ) In Their Late Antique Apocalyptic Context.

Fudge, B: Philology and the Meaning of Sūrat al-Burūj  in Islamic Studies Today: Essays in honor of Andrew Rippin, edited by Majid Daneshgar and Walid Saleh (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp.239-59.

Silverstein, A: “Who are the Aṣḥāb al-Ukhdūd? Q 85:4‒10 in Near Eastern Context” in Der Islam 2019; 96 (2): 281–323.

86. الطارق   al-Ṭāriq

87. الأعلى    al-A‘lā

88. الغاشية  al-Ghāshiya

89. الفجر    al-Fajr

Neuenkirchen, P: Biblical Elements in Koran 89, 6-8 and Its Exegeses: A New Interpretation of “Iram of the Pillars” in Arabica 60 (2013) pp.651-700.

90. البلد      al-Balad

Younes, M: The mother’s breasts or the path of good and evil: a new reading of Q90 in Charging steeds or maidens performing good deeds, In search of the Original Qur’ān, pp.25-38.

91. الشمس  al-Shams

92. الليل      al-Layl

93. الضحى   al-Ḍuḥā

94. الشرح    al-Sharḥ

95. التين      al-Tīn

96. العلق     al-‘Alaq

Cuypers, M:L’analyse rhétorique de la sourate 96 in Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourié (eds): The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough, xv–xxiv. Gorgias Press, 2012, pp. 348-370.

Rubin, U: Iqra’ Bi-Smi Rabbika …! Some notes on the interpretation of Sūrat al-ʽAlaq (VS 1-5), Israel Oriental Studies XIII, E.J. Brill, 1993.

Zellentin, H: “Beyond Ring Composition: A Comparison of Formal Features in Sūrat al-ʿAlaq (Q 96) and Bavli Bava Batra 8a,” in Structural Dividers in the Qur’an, ed. Marianna Klar (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), 54-91.

97. القدر     al-Qadr

Beck, D : The Annunciation of Sūrat al-Qadr: Celebrating the Incarnation of the Deity (Q 97) (On the sura’s referring to the nativity of Christ, and its influence from St Ephrem’s Nativity Hymn no.21).

Dye, G: لَيْلَةُ القَدْر هيَ أم ليلة الميلاد؟ (La Nuit du Destin et la Nuit de la Nativité,in Guillaume Dye & Fabien Nobilio, Figures bibliques en Islam, Bruxelles-Fernelmont, EME, 2011), tr. Bashir ibn Rajab, On the strong parallels between the Sūrat al-Qadr of the Qur’ān and St Ephrem’s Nativity Hymn no.21), whereby the ‘descent of the Qur’ān’ is adapted from the hymn’s ‘descent of Christ at Christmas’.

Sinai, N: ‘Weihnachten im Qur’ān’ oder ‘Nacht der Bestimmung’? Eine Interpretation von Sure 97. Der Islam 88:1 (2012): 11-32.

98. البينة     al-Bayyina

99. الزلزلة    al-Zalzala

100. العاديات    al-‘Ādiyāt

Younes, M: Charging steeds or maidens performing good deeds, a re-interpretation of Q100 in Charging steeds or maidens performing good deeds, In search of the Original Qur’ān, pp.57-77.

Zinner, S:  The Phoenix of 2 Enoch/3 Baruch in Qurʾān Sūra 100. A disproportionate amount of the total words in āyāt 1-5 of Qurʾān Sūra 100 are hapax legomena, namely, al-ʿādiyāti, ḍabḥā, qadḥā, al-mūriyāt, naqʿāand wasaṭna. Since these words were intensely disputed by traditional tafsīr authorities, part of the difficulty may lie in the possible status of at least some of these words as foreign loanwords. Enochic traditions of Rabbinic literature may shed light on sūra 100.

101. القارعة    al-Qāri‘a

102. التكاثر    al-Takāthur

103. العصر    al-‘Aṣr

104. الهمزة    al-Humaza 

105. الفيل      al-Fīl

Beck, DMaccabees Not Mecca: The Biblical Subtext of Sūrat al-Fīl (Q 105).

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

Rozov, V: Revision of internal structure and ordering of the Qur’ānic suras 105 al–Fil and 106 Quraysh: structural and rhetorical analysis, in Manuscripta Orientalia (2022).

106. قريش          Quraysh

Celik, E: Quraish or Qorash (Q 106): from the perspectives of Qur’an and Bible (that the sūra takes its name from an important figure of Hebrew Bible’s Book of Ezrah, namely Persian King Cyrus (Qoresh, Kūruš, Kowresh, ko’-resh). 

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

Rozov, V: Revision of internal structure and ordering of the Qur’ānic suras 105 al–Fil and 106 Quraysh: structural and rhetorical analysis, in Manuscripta Orientalia (2022).

Younes, M: Blessing, clinging, familiarity, custom – or ship: a new reading of the word Īlāf in Q106 in Charging steeds or maidens performing good deeds, In search of the Original Qur’ān, pp.14-24.

107. الماعون       al-Mā‘ūn

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

108. الكوثر          al-Kawthar

Baasten, M: A Syriac Reading of the Qurʾān? The Case of Sūrat al-Kawṯar, in A. Al-Jallad (ed.), Arabic in Context. 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

Kropp, M and Kerr, R: Ein exegetischer Versuch von Koran Sure 108 „Die Fülle“ bzw. „al-Kawṯar

109. الكافرون       al-Kāfirūn

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

110. النصر          al-Naṣr

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

111. المسد          al-Masad

Beck, D: Quranic Fire and Quranic Sins: The Eschatological Curses of Q 111 (Sūrat Al-Masad) and Q 85 (Sūrat Al-Burūğ) In Their Late Antique Apocalyptic Context.

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

Rubin, U: The Hands of Abu Lahab and the Gazelle of the Ka’ba, (on Sūra CXI,1: تَبَّتْ يَدَا أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ  ‘Perish the two hands of Abū Lahab’).  Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 33 (2007), 93-98. [Reprinted in: Uri Rubin, Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate, 2011), no. XII].

112. الإخلاص      al-Ikhlāṣ

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

Cuypers, M: Une lecture rhétorique et intertextuelle de la sourate al-IkhlāṣMIDEO (Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’Etudes orientales) 2004.

Ghaffar, Z: The Many Faces of Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ in J. Int. Qur’anic Stud. Assoc. 2024 on new evidence for the nature of the religious milieu that shaped its form and content. The several “intertexts” of creedal expressions that shed light on the discursive nature of the sūrah.

Kropp, M: Tripartite, but anti-Trinitarian formulas in the Qur’ānic corpus, possibly pre-Qur’ānic  in  New Perspectives on the Qur’ān: The Qur’ān in its Historical Context 2. Edited by Reynolds, Gabriel Said: Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān. London / New York: Routledge, 2011, pp.247-264.

Popp, V: Die Koran-Sure 112, auch “Thron-Sure” genannt: Wenige Worte, große Wirkungin Imprimatur, Jg. 49, 2016, Heft 3.

Zinner, S: Qur’ān Sūra 112, Parmenides and Eunomius, A Textual-Philological Investigation. Journal of Higher Criticism. An examination of Youssef Seddik’s claim for influence of Parmenides Fragment 8 on Qur’an sūra112 and a presentation of evidence for the Eunomian terminology in sūra 112. The question of “Jewish Christianity” and its influence on nascent Islam is discussed.

113. الفلق    al-Falaq

114. الناس     al-Nās

The Lost Sūras

Anthony S: Two ‘Lost’ Sūras of the Qurʾān: Sūrat al-Khalʿ and Sūrat al-Ḥafd between Textual and Ritual Canon (1st -3rd/7th -9th Centuries) in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (2019).

Gilliot, C: Un verset manquant du Coran ou réputé tel, (et Doutes concernant ce qui est du Coran et ce qui n’en est pas) in M-T Urvoy (ed.) En Hommage au Père Jacques Jomier, O.P., pp.73-100.

Studies on collections of Qur’ānic sūras

Azaiez, M ; Reynolds, G ; Tesei, T ; Hamza, Z (eds) : The Qur’an Seminar Commentary, A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur’anic Passages, June 2016. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016. Collaborative comments on sūras 1-50.

Cuypers, M: L’analyse rhétorique, une nouvelle méthode pour l’exégèse du Coran (with examples from Sūras1, 12, 85 and 86).

Cuypers, M: Une Apocalypse coranique – Les sourates 105 à 112 (séminaire IDEO, 18 Mars 2014).

Gilliot, C: La composition des sourates mekkoises. (Section A of Deux études sur le Coran, a review article of A. Neuwirth: Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren, Berlin, New York 1981). Arabica, Tome XXX, Fascicule 1, 1983. See pp.1-16.

Reynolds, G: The Qur’an and the Bible Text and Commentary, Yale University Press, 2018. (Contains analytical points on each sūra of the Qur’ān).