My book The Making of Persianate Modernity is finally coming out in paperback, March 2025. Available for preorder now.

In his brilliant article on "din" and "islam" in the Qur'an Mohsen Goudarzi starts off strong: with references to Muslim authorities who articulate a deeper sense of these words.

My article on the Textual Criticism of the Quran can now be downloaded from the Leiden University Repository! hdl.handle.net/1887/3761723

In a couple of weeks time we have an exciting conference coming up in Oxford. Lot's of exciting talks. I'll be presenting my thought's on Kaplony's engaging documentary hypothesis of the Qurʾān! qucip.web.ox.ac.uk/conference

Across northwest Saudi Arabia are tens of thousands of monumental tombs. But when were these tombs made? How did they develop over time? When did they stop? Well, we can start to answer those questions! Our new paper on Bronze Age tombs is OUT! 🧵1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Brill has recently released a book titled Describing God, featuring interreligious contributions on divine attributes, including articles by four Iranian scholars. The book is freely available on Brill’s website. I was honored to participate. brill.com/display/title/…

"Forbear them and say, 'Peace!' For soon they will know!" (Q 43:89) In this article, I argue that the Meccan Qur'an embraces eschatological pacifism, linking qur'anic ṣabara (ṣabr) to the New Testament hypomenō through the Syriac saybar. tandfonline.com/eprint/XKWGRVQ…

My most recent article: "The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an," SLA 9.2 (Summer 2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-ab…

Videos from this recent Oxford conference are now available online (youtube.com/@qucip). My presentation examines whether (and when) the Qur'an really attributes a distinct scripture to Jesus.

Just out: The Global Qur’an's latest book: "Qur'an translations in the Eastern Blog and Beyond"! We are so excited and grateful to all the contributors! It's open access and you are, of course, also invited to order hard copies for your library! openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

I’m delighted that our edited volume, “Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter,” has now been published. The volume is available Open Access: brill.com/edcollbook-oa/…

What do ḥanīf and millah mean in the Qur’an, and why are they associated with the figure of Abraham? Drawing on the works of Mohsen Goudarzi and Nicolai Sinai, I address these and other related questions in the following article (Pre-Print Draft):

My new article for JIQSA (the Journal of IQSA WEB) is now available online: “On the Historicity of ʿUthmān’s Canonization of the Qur’an, Part 1: The State of the Field” It is open access – link below!

New article by Mohsen Goudarzi "The Qur'an Cultic Trinity: Marian Piety in Late Antiquity and the Qur'an" really enjoyed reading it and highly recommend it :) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

My first book finally has a cover and website, and will be published by Edinburgh University Press in February 2026! It looks at how preaching, emotions, and political thought intersect in the writings of Ibn al-Jawzi. Pre-order coming soon! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-preaching…

My most recent article, "The Arabs and the Ummah of Muhammad," has just been published online with Der Islam.

Excited to share our new article with Umberto Bongianino: The Pink Qurʾan: A Reverse Biography✨ euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336… Not open-access, but I’ll gladly send a copy on request.

Another excellent new title in Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology. In Before the Qur’an, Süleyman Dost brings extensive contemporary research on pre-Islamic Arabian rock inscriptions into conversation with the Qur’an to explore the scripture’s historical context.