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 Ikhwn 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’ inTexts, 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 Ikhwn al-廜糎f尨)’, inThe 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] inFortresses of the intellect, ed. Omar Al穩-de-Unzaga (2011), pp. 1-32
Articles
- The conversation between Moses and God (mung t M贖s) in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Ras尨il Ikhwn al-廜糎f尨) inAl-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.
- ‘Ikhwn al-廜糎f尨’ inChristian-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’, inThe 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 Ikhwn Al-廜糎f妏). University of Cambridge, 2005.