Dr Omar Al穩-de-Unzaga
Head, Qur'anic Studies Unit, and Research Associate, DAR
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Departments and units
Department of Academic Research Qur'anic Studies -
Email
oali@iis.ac.uk
Books
Commentary, Edition and Translation
- On Ethics. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 9 [of the Ikhwan al-Safa尨] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
Edited
- Fortresses of the Intellect: Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary��(London: IB Tauris, 2011).
Book Chapters
- ‘The Missing Link?: MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Ras��尨il Ikhw��n al-廜糎f��尨From Arabic, lit. ���Brethren of Purity���, a group of learned scholars who were based in Basra and Baghdad around the last quarter of the t10th century CE. It is more… in the Collection of 51勛圖厙’ in��Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond, ed. Wafi Momin (London: IB Tauris, 2022), pp. 81-136.
- Citational Exegesis of the Qur’an: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Construction of Meaning in Classical Islamic Thought. The Case of the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Ras��尨il Ikhw��n al-廜糎f��尨)’, in��The Construction of Belief: Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun, ed. Abdou Filali-Ansary and Aziz Esmail (London: Saqi Books, 2012), pp. 168-193.
- ‘Introduction: A Biographical Sketch’ [of Farhad Daftary] in��Fortresses of the intellect, ed. Omar Al穩-de-Unzaga (2011), pp. 1-32
Articles
- The conversation between Moses and God (mun��g ��t M贖s��) in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Ras��尨il Ikhw��n al-廜糎f��尨) in��Al-Kit璽b: La sacralit矇 du texte dans le monde de l’islam, ed. Daniel De Smet, Godefroid de Callata藩 and Jan Van Reeth, Acta Orientalia Belgica. Subsidia Analecta III (2004), pp. 371-387.
- ‘Ikhw��n al-廜糎f��尨’ in��Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2��(900-1050) ed. David Thomas and Alex Mallett with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala Johannes Pahlitzsch, Mark Swanson, Herman Teule and John Tolan (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 306-311.
Encyclopaedia Articles
- “Brethren of Purity’, in��The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Patricia Crone, Madad Kadi, Devin J. Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Mahan Mirza (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 73-74.
Book Reviews
- Review of Walid Saleh,��The Classical Tafs蘋r Tradition: the Qur尨��n Commentary of al-Tha尪lab蘋��(d. 427/1035) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004),��Journal of Qur’anic Studies 8��(i), pp. 119-125.
Thesis
- The Use of the Qur妏��n in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Ras��妏il Ikhw��n Al-廜糎f��妏). University of Cambridge, 2005.