Dr Karen Bauer
Senior Research Associate
- Bauer, K., and Feras Hamza, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur’an: A Patronage of Piety. Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2023.
- Bauer K. and Feras Hamza, eds., An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume 2: On Women. Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2021.
- Bauer K., Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Paperback edition published June, 2017. Runner-up for the BKFS book prize, 2016.
- Bauer K. (ed.), Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis, 2nd/8th – 9th/15th Centuries, Oxford, Oxford University Press in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013.
- Bauer K., ‘Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a “Jihad Surah” (Al-Anfāl Q. 8)’. In Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an, ed. Nicolai Sinai. Leiden: Brill, 2022, 480-512.
- ‘Contemporary Iranian Interpretations of the Qur’an and Tradition on Women’s Testimony’. In Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. Elisabeth Kendall and Ahmad Khan, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 160-176.
- ‘A Note on the Relationship Between Tafsir and Common Understanding, with Reference to Contracts of Marriage’, in Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone. Asad Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Behnam Sadeghi, and Adam Silverstein, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2014, 97-111.
- Introduction’. In Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis, 2nd/8th – 9th/15th centuries. Karen Bauer, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013, 1-16.
- ‘Justifying the Genre: A Study of Introductions to Classical Works of Tafsır,’ Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis, 2nd/8th – 9th/15th centuries, ed. Karen Bauer. Oxford: Oxford University Press in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013, 39-66.
- ‘“I have seen the people’s antipathy to this knowledge:” The Muslim exegete and his audience, 5th/11th-7th/13th centuries’. In The Islamic Scholarly Tradition: Studies in History, Law and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook. A. Ahmed, B. Sadeghi, and M. Bonner, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 293-315. Reprinted in Tafsīr: Interpreting the Qur’an. Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, ed. Mustafa Shah. London: Routledge, 2013, v. 4, 356-376.
- Bauer K., ‘The Emotions of Conversion and Kinship in the Qur’an and Sīra of Ibn Isḥāq’. Cultural History 8.2 (2019), 137-163.
- Bauer K., ‘Emotion in the Qur’an: an Overview’. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 19.2 (2017), 1-31.
- Bauer K., ‘The Current State of Qur’ānic Studies: Commentary on a Roundtable discussion’. Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (JIQSA) 1.1, (2016), 29-45.
- Bauer K., ‘In Defence of Historical-Critical Analysis of the Qur’an’, part of a roundtable entitled ‘Feminism in Islam: Exploring the Boundaries of Critique’. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 32.2, (2016), 126-130.
- Bauer K., ‘Spiritual Hierarchy and Gender Hierarchy in Fātimid Ismā‘īlī interpretations of the Qur’ān’. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 14.2, (2012), 29-46.
- ‘Debates on Women’s Status as Judges and Witnesses in Post-Formative Islamic law’. Journal of the American Oriental Society 130.1 (2010), 1-21.
- ‘The Male is not Like the Female (Q 3:36): The Question of Gender Egalitarianism in the Qur’ān’. Religion Compass 3/4 (2009), 637–654.
- ‘“Traditional” Exegesis of Q 4:34’. Comparative Islamic Studies, 2.2 (2006), 129 – 142.
- The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender by Shahla Haeri, The American Historical Review 128.1 (2023), 538–539.
- The Study Qur’an by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, et. al., eds. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34.3 (2017), 75-78.
- Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sources by Susan Spectorsky, review in Islamic Law and Society 23.1-2 (2016), 147-150.
- Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender, by Ayesha S. Chaudhry, review in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 17.2 (2015), 132-136.
- Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800), ed. Sperling and Wray, review in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 38 (2011), 415-420.
- The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’ān ed. Andrew Rippin, review in Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.2 (2009), 307-311.
- Woman’s identity in the Qur’ān, by Nimat Hafez Barazangi, review in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 4:3 (Fall, 2008), 131-134.
- A Traditional Mu‘tazilite Qur’ān Commentary, by Andrew Lane, review in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 126.3 (July – Sept., 2006), 435-437.
- The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition, by Walid Saleh, review in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 125.3 (July-Sept., 2005), 470-473.
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Reminiscences on being a student of Patricia Crone’s, entitled ‘With all Good Wishes’, al-Usur al-Wusta, November 2015.
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Veiled Voices (2009), a documentary film: writer and co-producer; the film is directed and produced by Brigid Maher. Veiled Voices follows Muslim women religious leaders in the Middle East, exploring their relationship to tradition and modernity.
