Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Zishan Ghaffar is a professor (W3 chair) of Quranic exegesis at the Seminar for Islamic Theology of the University of Paderborn, where he directs the Center for Comparative Theology and Cultural Sciences (ZeKK), succeeding Klaus von Stosch. From 2017 to 2020 he was a researcher for the Corpus Coranicum project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
His research focuses on classical (tafsīr) and historical-critical Quranic exegesis, Quranic theology, the biography of the Prophet (sīra) and the historical Muhammad, comparative theology, the genesis and history of Islam, and Syriac Christianity.
He is the author of Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) and co-edited, with Klaus von Stosch, Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue. A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter (2025).
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Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Edited by Zishan Ghaffar (University of Paderborn) and Klaus von Stosch, professor of systematic theology at the University of Bonn and member of the coordination committee of Pluriel, this collect...
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Normativity of Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the orientation towards “holy texts” is central. While in the past it was undisputed that these texts could be understood as directly given by God an...
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado" in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...
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A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted r...
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The Virtues of the Good Muslim
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Published in 2025 by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari in Venice, this monograph by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca’ Foscari University) is the augmented English translation of Le virtù del buon Musulmano, fir...
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Without Judaism, No Islam. The Denied Source
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Published under the original title Ohne Judentum kein Islam. Die verleugnete Quelle, with the subtitle Die Wurzeln des muslimischen Antisemitismus. Eine aktuelle Analyse (“The Roots of Muslim...
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Sa...
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The Word of God and the Qur’an: On the Reflections of Claude Geffré
- Tobias Specker
Published in the Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques (vol. 110, 2026/1, pp. 197-213), this article by Tobias Specker examines the Christian theology of Islam developed by the Dominica...
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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends
- Michel Younès
Publication date: April 16, 2026. Islam, as a historical, religious, and civilizational reality, is difficult to define. It can be perceived as a form of political governance, an expression of fait...