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Edited Book or Journal Volume

al-Faqī, Mustafa, Sabry, Hussam (translators), Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, eds. (2024) كتلب مرجع أُكسفرد في دراسات القرآنية = Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Beirut: Markaz al-Nuhud.

Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, eds. (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)

Shah, Mustafa, ed. (2019) Islamic Theological Discourses and the Legacy of Kalām: Gestation, Movements and Controversies. Berlin: Gerlach. (Critical Surveys in Islamic Studies)

Shah, Mustafa, ed. (2013) Tafsir: Interpreting the Qur'an. Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. London: Routledge. (Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, v.4)

Shah, Mustafa, ed. (2009) The Hadith: Articulating the Beliefs and Constructs of Classical Islam. London: Routledge. (Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies)

Book Chapters

Shah, Mustafa (2023) 'Ibn Qudāma, al-Maqdisī.' In: Fleet, Kate, Krämer, Gudrun, Matringe, Denis, Nawas, John and Stewart, Devin J., (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. Leiden: Brill, pp. 33-43.

Shah, Mustafa (2020) 'The Corpus of Qur'anic Readings (qirā'āt): History, Synthesis and Authentication.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 194-216. (Oxford Handbooks)

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Presenting the Qur’an out of Context.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Rhetorical Devices and Stylistic Features of Qur'anic Grammar.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 327-345.

Shah, Mustafa (2020) 'Vocabulary of the Qur’an: Meaning in Context.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 294-314. (Oxford Handbooks)

Sperl, Stefan (2020) 'The Qurʾan and Arabic Poetry.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford handbooks)

Shah, Mustafa (2019) 'The Word of God: The Epistemology of Language in Classical Islamic Theological Thought.' In: Yelle, Robert, Handman, Courtney and Lehrich, Christopher, (eds.), Language and Religion. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 158-192. (Language Intersections)

Shah, Mustafa (2017) 'Islamic Conceptions of Dignity: Historical Trajectories and Paradigms.' In: Debes, Remy, (ed.), Dignity: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 99-126. (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)

Shah, Mustafa (2011) 'Ḥadīṯ, Language of.' In: Edzard, Lutz and de Jong, Rudolf, (eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Managing Editors Online Edition. Leiden: Brill, pp. 10-32.

Sperl, Stefan (2010) 'Man's "hollow core": ethics and aesthetics in hadith literature and classical Arabic adab.' In: Shah, Mustafa, (ed.), The Hadith - Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, Volume IV, Narrative, Context and Content. London: Routledge, pp. 98-118.

Shah, Mustafa (2008) 'The Arabic Language.' In: Rippin, Andrew, (ed.), The Islamic World. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 261-277.

Shah, Mustafa (2008) 'Entry on qira’at (Qur’anic readings).' In: Versteegh, Kees, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Vol. 4. Leiden: Brill.

Journal Article

Shah, Mustafa (2016) 'The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law.' International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique), 29 (2). pp. 285-311.

Shah, Mustafa (2015) 'Kalām: rational expressions of medieval theological thought.' Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism [ Encyclopédie de l’humanisme méditerranéen]. pp. 1-49.

Shah, Mustafa (2013) 'Al-Ṭabarī and the Dynamics of tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 15 (2). pp. 83-139.

Shah, Mustafa (2011) 'Classical Islamic Discourse on the Origins of Language: Cultural Memory and the Defense of Orthodoxy.' Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 58 (2/3). pp. 314-43.

Shah, Mustafa (2010) 'Review Article of Lawson, Todd. 'The Crucifixion and the Qur’an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought'.' Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 12 (1-2). pp. 191-203.

Shah, Mustafa (2010) 'Arabic Language and Islam: An annotated survey.' Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, 1 (1). pp. 1-20.

Shah, Mustafa (2009) 'Review Article of Mourad, Suleiman Ali. 'Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship'.' Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 11 (2). pp. 93-119.

Shah, Mustafa (2007) 'Trajectories in the Development of Islamic Theological Thought: the Synthesis of Kalam.' Religion Compass, 1 (4). pp. 430-454.

Shah, Mustafa (2005) 'The Quest for the Origins of the qurra' in the Classical Islamic Tradition.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 7 (2). pp. 1-35.

Shah, Mustafa (2004) 'The Early Arabic Grammarians' Contributions to the Collection and Authentication of Qur'anic Readings: The Prelude to Ibn Mujahid's Kitab al-Sab'a.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 6 (1). pp. 72-102.

Shah, Mustafa (2003) 'Review article of: The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 5 (2). pp. 135-152.

Shah, Mustafa (2003) 'Exploring the Genesis of Early Arabic Linguistic Thought: Qur'anic Readers and Grammarians of the Baṣran Tradition (Part II).' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 5 (2). pp. 1-47.

Shah, Mustafa (2003) 'Exploring the Genesis of Early Arabic Linguistic Thought: Qur'anic Readers and Grammarians of the Kufan Tradition (Part I).' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 5 (1). pp. 47-78.

Shah, Mustafa (2000) 'The Philological Endeavours of the Early Arabic Linguists: Theological Implications of the tawqīf-iṣṭilāḥ Antithesis and the majāz Controversy (Part II) / ‮جهود اللغويين العرب المبكرة: الٲبعاد الدينية لنظريتي التوقيف والاصطلاح في نشٲة اللغة والخلاف حول المجاز [القسم الثاني]‬.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2 (1). pp. 43-66.

Shah, Mustafa (1999) 'The Philological Endeavours of the Early Arabic Linguists: Theological Implications of the tawqīf-iṣṭilāḥ Antithesis and the majāz Controversy (Part I) / ‮جهود اللغويين العرب المبكرة: الٲبعاد الدينية لنظريتي التوقيف والاصطلاح في نشٲة اللغة والخلاف حول المجاز (القسم الٲول)‬.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 1 (1). pp. 27-46.

Book Reviews

Shah, Mustafa (2019) 'Review of ‘Sharia and the Concept of Benefit: The Use and Function of maṣlaḥa in Islamic Jurisprudence’. By Abdul Aziz bin Sattam.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 21 (1). pp. 122-126.

Shah, Mustafa (2017) 'Review of: Ramzi Baalbaki. The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition: From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century. Brill, Leiden, 2014.' Journal of Semitic Studies, 62 (1). pp. 276-280.

Shah, Mustafa (2015) 'Review of: John P. Turner, Inquisition in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire.' Ilahiyat Studies, 6 (2). pp. 268-275.

Shah, Mustafa (2014) 'Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo. Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation with an Introduction. By Lejla Demiri. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 566. €158 (cloth).' Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 73 (2). p. 378.

Shah, Mustafa (2012) 'The Early Islamic Grammatical Tradition. Edited by Ramzi Baalbaki. The Formation of the Classical Islamic World Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, Variorum, 2007.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 14 (1). pp. 142-151.

Shah, Mustafa (2011) 'Review of: Solomon I. Sara SJ. Sībawayh on ?imālah (Inclination): Text, Translation, Notes and Analysis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 74 (2). pp. 315-316.

Shah, Mustafa (2011) 'ETAN KOHLBERG and MOHAMMAD ALI AMIR-MOEZZI (ed. and trans.): Revelation and Falsification: The Kitāb al-qira’āt of Ahṃ ad b. Muhammad al-Sayyārī. Critical Edition with an Introduction and Notes. (Texts and Studies on the Qur’ān.).' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 74 (2). pp. 316-319.

Shah, Mustafa (2011) 'Review of: Classical Islamic Theology: The Ashʿarites. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalām. Vol. III. By Richard M. Frank. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Burlington V.T. and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 13 (1). pp. 100-107.

Shah, Mustafa (2009) 'Review of 'The Oral and the Written in Early Islam' by Gregor Schoeler; translated by Uwe Vagelpohl.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 10 (1). pp. 98-128.

Shah, Mustafa (2009) 'Book review of: Colin F. Baker. Qur’an Manuscripts: Calligraphy, Illumination and Design (London: British Library, 2007).' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 11 (1). pp. 126-132.

Shah, Mustafa (2008) 'Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I ; Early Islamic Theology: The Muʿtazilites and al-Ashʿarī. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. II.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 10 (1). pp. 137-141.

Shah, Mustafa (2007) 'Book review of Islamic Humanism.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 8 (2). pp. 139-142.

Shah, Mustafa (2007) 'Review of: Abdul Hakim al-Matroudi, 'The Ḥanbalī School of Law and Ibn Taymiyya: Conflict or Conciliation'.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 9 (2). pp. 330-346.

Shah, Mustafa (2006) 'MICHAEL G. CARTER: Sibawayhi. (Makers of Islamic Civilization.) viii, 159 pp. London and New York: Oxford University Press, I.B. Tauris, 2004. £9.99.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (1). pp. 142-145.

Shah, Mustafa (2004) 'Islam and Science.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 6 (1). pp. 138-142.

Shah, Mustafa (2002) 'The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions (Ahsan al-taqasim fi ma’rifat al-aqalim). By Al-Muqaddasi, Shams al-Din Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad, translated by Professor Basil Collins.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 4 (2). pp. 82-88.