Quranic studies is the academic application of a diverse set of disciplines to study the Quran (including its exegesis and historical reception), drawing on methods including … See more

Quranic studies employs the historical-critical method (HCM) as its primary methodological apparatus, which is the approach that emphasizes a process that "delays any … See more

Modern textual criticism of the Quran remains in its infancy, with the study of manuscripts only picking up in recent decades. However, the large growth of digitized manuscripts has resulted in a recent acceleration in publications on the subject. See more

Contemporary interest of the Quran in its historical context was spurted by Christoph Luxenberg's publication of The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran in 2007, even though Luxenberg's thesis, that the Quran originated as a proto-scriptural Aramaic … See more

Geography
Outside the Hejaz
During the 1970s and 1980s, several theses were put forwards suggesting that the Quran originated either outside of the Hejaz, … See more

Predecessors
Silvestre de Sacy was one of the first to inaugurate the historical-critical approach to the Koran in Europe. Although he is best known for his philological research on the Arabic language, he also wrote a number of … See more

• The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an, 1938
• A Concordance of the Qurʾān, 1983.
• Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, Vols 1–5, 2001–2006
• A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic, 2004 See more