Qur'an
An Audience with the Sultan's Shaykh
A conversation between Vani Effendi and Sir Thomas Baines shows a willingness to understand theological differences between Islam and Christianity in 1676
26 January 2026
Ḥayy ibn Yaqdhān and the Disappearing Qur’ān - Part 4 – The Three English Translations Compared
It may be inferred that attracting the readers’ attention to the Qur’ān is no longer needed or desirable.
3 July 2023
Ḥayy ibn Yaqdhān and the Disappearing Qur’ān - Part 3 – From Manuscript to Print
The reason for signposting the Qur’ān cannot be intra-diegetic but must be extra-diegetic, namely having to do with something other than the text itself.
26 June 2023
Ḥayy ibn Yaqdhān and the Disappearing Qur’ān - Part 2 – Reading Ḥayy & the Qur’ān Simultaneously
A sign of orientalist scholarship in the early seventeenth century was scriptural researching.
18 June 2023
Ḥayy ibn Yaqdhān and the Disappearing Qur’ān - Part 1 – Manuscripts and Margins
This tale was part of a theological debate over the ways in which a human may recognize the divine rationally and intuitively.
12 June 2023
Celebrating 100 MEMOs blog posts
Through our blog posts so far we have travelled through space and time, traversing lands both real and imagined
21 March 2022
Information and Sensation in an Illustrated Qur’an from the Dutch Republic
It is important to analyse illustrations critically, interpret them in their specific context and to adapt a period eye
14 November 2021