Biography
After studying Arabic and Hebrew at the University of St. Andrews, Stephen Burge moved to the University of Edinburgh for his Masters’ and doctoral work. He has specialized in the study of angels in Islam, looking at the angelology of the Qur’an and more widely in the Islamic tradition. His doctoral thesis is a translation and commentary of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti’s Al-Haba’ik fi akhbar al-mala’ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels).
His areas of research are in angelology, Islamic exegesis, Hadith Studies, popular religion and the works of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. He is also interested in comparative Semitic philology and lexicography, Islamic codicology and relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam – especially in popular religion.
Publications
Books
Angels in Islam: Jalal al-Din al-Suyuṭi’s al-Ḥaba’ik fi akhbar al-mala’ik. (London: Routledge, forthcoming; Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Series).
Edited Volumes
The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Tafsir, (Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, forthcoming 2012; Qur’anic Studies Series).
Book Chapters
‘The Meaning of the Word: An Introduction to Lexicology and Tafsir,’ in S. R. Burge (ed.), The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Tafsir.
‘Lexicology, Aḥadith, Poetry and Tafsir: Defending Lexicological Readings,’ in S. R. Burge (ed.), The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Tafsir.
‘Jalal al-Din al-Suyuṭi, the Mu’awwidhatan and the Modes of Exegesis,’ in Karen Bauer (ed.), The Aims and Methods of Qur’anic Exegesis (8th – 15th centuries), London: Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, forthcoming, 2011).
‘The Angels’ Roles in Death and Judgement: al-Suyuti’s Approach to Hadith’ in Amanda Phillips and Refqa Abu-Remaileh (eds.), The Meeting Place of British Middle Eastern Studies: Emerging Scholars, Emergent Research and Approaches Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) pp. 40 – 59.
Journal Articles
‘Impurity / Danger!’ Islamic Law and Society 17:3 (2010) pp. 320 – 349.
‘’ZR’L, The Angel of Death and the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Peter’ Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 19.3 (2010) pp. 217 – 224
‘The Angels in Surat al-Mala’ika: Exegeses of Q . 35:1’ Journal of Qur’anic Studies 10 (2009) pp. 50 – 70.
‘The Provenance of Suhrawardian Angelology’ Archiv Orientální 76 (2008) pp. 435 – 457
Book Reviews
David S. Powers, Muḥammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 38:1.
David Jacoby, Latins, Greeks and Muslims: Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10th – 15th Centuries (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).’ Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 23:1.
Nehemia Levztion, (ed. Michel Abitol and Amos Nadan), Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal (Aldershot: Variorum, 2007).’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 37:3 (2010) pp. 468 – 471.
Jonathan A. C. Brown, Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oxford: One World, 2009).’ Journal of Qurʾānic Studies 12 (2010) pp. 214 – 217.
Norman Solomon, Richard Harries and Tim Winter (eds.), Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation (London: T&T Clark, 2005), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36:3 (2009).
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