Mehdi Azaiez

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

References

1. Center, Berkley; Affairs, World. "Mehdi Azaiez". Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
2. "Mehdi Azaiez". Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen KU Leuven. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
3. "Mehdi Azaiez". Pluriel. 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
4. Reviews of Le contre-discours coranique:

   • Bouali, Hassan (2021-05-01). "Mehdi Azaiez, Le contre-discours coranique". Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques (35). doi:10.4000/bcai.316. ISSN 0259-7373.
   • Pisani, Emmanuel (2017-05-15). "Azaiez, Mehdi, Le contre-discours coranique". MIDÉO. Mélanges de l'Institut dominicain d'études orientales (32). Institut Dominicain d'Études Orientales: 315–318. ISSN 0575-1330. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
   • Dean, Jason Richard (2019-12-09). "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 (in French). 96 (4). Persée - Portail des revues scientifiques en SHS: 494–494. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
5. Reviews of Le Coran : nouvelles approches:

   • Terrier, Mathieu (2016-09-01). "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): 431–434. doi:10.4000/rhr.8596. ISSN 0035-1423.
   • Denkha, Ataa (2014-12-15). "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): 557. doi:10.4000/rsr.9019. ISSN 0035-2217.
6. Reviews of Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis:

   • Belhaj, Abdessamad (2024-03-20). "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: 1–3. doi:10.1080/09596410.2024.2330220. ISSN 0959-6410.