Dr. Iqbal Abdel Raziq

Middle East & Islamic Studies

Dr. Iqbal Abdel Raziq is a researcher specializing in Islam with a focus on the Qur’an and early Islamic traditions. She employs a comparative approach that includes early Jewish and Christian sources, mainly the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Dr. Abdel Raziq completed her Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University, working within both the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Department of Biblical Studies, as part of the Biblia-Arabica project. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Open University of Israel Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Currently, she serves as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and teaches Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Shalem College.

Selected Publications

“The Visions of Sūrat al-Najm (Q. 53): The Makeup of a Sophisticated, Intricate Text,” Al-Karmil 44 (2023), pp. 1–31.

“Ismāʿīl, Dhū ʼl-Kifl and Idrīs: A Reading of the Qurʾānic Text and Muslim Exegesis,” Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association 6 (2021), pp. 225–253. [Arabic]

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