Dr Omar Al铆-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示] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
Edited
- Fortresses of the Intellect: Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary聽(London: IB Tauris, 2011).
Book Chapters
- ‘The Missing Link?: MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Ras膩示il Ikhw膩n al-峁f膩示From Arabic, lit. 鈥楤rethren of Purity鈥, 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 The Institute of Ismaili Studies’ in聽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膩示il Ikhw膩n al-峁f膩示)’, in聽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聽Fortresses of the intellect, ed. Omar Al铆-de-Unzaga (2011), pp. 1-32
Articles
- The conversation between Moses and God (mun膩g 膩t M奴s膩) in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Ras膩示il Ikhw膩n al-峁f膩示) in聽Al-Kit芒b: La sacralit茅 du texte dans le monde de l’islam, ed. Daniel De Smet, Godefroid de Callata每 and Jan Van Reeth, Acta Orientalia Belgica. Subsidia Analecta III (2004), pp. 371-387.
- ‘Ikhw膩n al-峁f膩示’ in聽Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2聽(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聽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,聽The Classical Tafs墨r Tradition: the Qur示膩n Commentary of al-Tha士lab墨聽(d. 427/1035) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004),聽Journal of Qur’anic Studies 8聽(i), pp. 119-125.
Thesis
- The Use of the Qur使膩n in the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Ras膩使il Ikhw膩n Al-峁f膩使). University of Cambridge, 2005.