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Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association, a nonprofit learned society for scholars of the Qur'an. JIQSA welcomes article submissions that explore the Qur'an's origins in the religious, cultural, social, and political contexts of Late Antiquity; its connections to various literary precursors, especially the scriptural and parascriptural traditions of older religious communities; the historical reception of the Qur'an in the West; the hermeneutics and methodology of qur'anic exegesis and translation (both traditional and modern); the transmission and evolution of the textus receptus; Qur'an manuscripts and material culture; and the application of various literary and philological modes of investigation into qur'anic style, compositional structure, and rhetoric.Table of ContentsAndrew Rippin obituary Michael E. Pregill Presidential Address Farid Esack Response to Presidential Address Shari Lowin "Cognate Curses" Devin Stewart "My God? Your Lord! A Qur'anic Response to a Biblical Question" Zohar Hadromi-Allouche "Destabilizing Gender, Reproducing Maternity: Mary in the Qur'an" Kecia Ali "Law, Structure, and Meaning in Surat al-Baqarah" Joe Lowry "Ring Composition in Surat Yusuf" Jawad Qureshi, recipient of Andrew Rippin Best Paper Prize
