Mehdi Azaiez Explained

Mehdi Azaiez (born 1974) is a French Quranic studies scholar and professor of Islamic studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.^[1] He is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.^[2]

Biography

Mehdi Azaiez was born in Paris in 1974.^[2] He served as an assistant professor of Islamic theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven between 2014 and 2019. Before that, during 2012–2013, he taught Islamic studies and co-directed the international Qur’ân Seminar project at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States. From 2013, he has been a member of the Publications and Research Committee for the International Quranic Studies Association. He also founded and edits the website Quran and Early Islam, which focuses on Quranic studies.^[3]

Works

As author

• Le contre-discours coranique (The Quranic Counter-discourse) (2015)^[4]

As editor

• Le Coran: nouvelles approches (The Quran: New Approaches) (2013)^[5]
• The Qur'an Seminar Commentary / Le Qur'an Seminar. A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages / Commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques (2017)
• Le Coran : de la tribu à l’empire. Autour de l’œuvre de Jacqueline Chabbi (The Quran: from tribe to empire. Around the work of Jacqueline Chabbi) (2023)
• Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis (2023)^[6]
• Itinerant Prophets:Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam (2025) with Rémy Gareil and Iyas Hassan

See also

• Quranic counter-discourse

Notes and References

1. Web site: Center . Berkley . Affairs . World . Mehdi Azaiez . Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. 2024-09-24.
2. Web site: Mehdi Azaiez . Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen KU Leuven . 2017-12-19 . 2024-09-24.
3. Web site: Mehdi Azaiez . Pluriel . 2022-09-21 . 2024-09-24.
4. Reviews of Le contre-discours coranique:
   • Bouali . Hassan . Mehdi Azaiez, Le contre-discours coranique . Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques . 35 . 2021-05-01 . 0259-7373 . 10.4000/bcai.316.
   • Pisani . Emmanuel . Azaiez, Mehdi, Le contre-discours coranique . MIDÉO. Mélanges de l'Institut dominicain d'études orientales . Institut Dominicain d'Études Orientales . 32 . 2017-05-15 . 0575-1330 . 315–318 . 2024-09-24.
   • Dean . Jason Richard . Mehdi Azaiez, Le contre-discours coranique, (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 30), Berlin – Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2015 . Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses . Persée - Portail des revues scientifiques en SHS . 96 . 4 . 2019-12-09 . 494–494 . fr . 2024-09-24.
5. Reviews of Le Coran : nouvelles approches:
   • Terrier . Mathieu . Le Coran, nouvelles approches, sous la direction de Mehdi Azaiez, avec la collaboration de Sabrina Mervin: Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2013 . Revue de l'histoire des religions . 233 . 2016-09-01 . 0035-1423 . 10.4000/rhr.8596 . 431–434.
   • Denkha . Ataa . Le Coran. Nouvelles approches: Sous la direction de Mehdi Azaiez, en collaboration avec Sabrina Mervin, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2013, 350 p. . Revue des sciences religieuses . 88/4 . 2014-12-15 . 0035-2217 . 10.4000/rsr.9019 . 557.
6. Reviews of Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis:
   • Belhaj . Abdessamad . Qurʾānic Studies between History, Theology and Exegesis Qurʾānic Studies between History, Theology and Exegesis, edited by Mehdi Azaiez and Mokdad Arfa-Mensia . Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations . 2024-03-20 . 0959-6410 . 10.1080/09596410.2024.2330220 . 1–3.