Dr Karen Bauer

Senior Research Associate

Biography Publications Teaching Research

Departments and Units
Qur’anic Studies Unit
Email
kbauer@iis.ac.uk
Extension
203

Bauer K., An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume 2: On Women, co-authored with Feras Hamza. 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, 2^nd/8^th – 9^th/15^th Centuries, Oxford, Oxford University Press in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013.

‘Contemporary Iranian Interpretations of the Qur’an and Tradition on Women’s Testimony’. In Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. E. Kendall and A. Khan, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 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, ed. Asad Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Behnam Sadeghi, and Adam Silverstein, Leiden: Brill, 2014, pp. 97-111.
Introduction’. In Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis, 2^nd/8^th – 9^th/15^th centuries. K. Bauer, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013, pp. 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.
Reprinted in Tafsīr: Interpreting the Qur’an. Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, ed. Mustafa Shah. London: Routledge, 2013, v. 4, pp. 356-376.
‘I have seen the people’s antipathy to this knowledge:” The Muslim exegete and his audience, 5^th/11^th-7^th/13^th 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.

Bauer K., ‘Emotion and Power in ʿUmayyad and Abbasid Documents”, submitted for the conference volume The Ties that Bind: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, Leiden, December 2019.
Bauer K., ‘Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a “Jihad Surah” (Al-Anfāl Q. 8)’: forthcoming in the volume Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an, ed. Nicolai Sinai, 2021.
Bauer K., ‘The Emotions of Conversion and Kinship in the Qur’an and Sīra of Ibn Isḥāq’ Cultural History 8.2, 2019, pp. 137-163.
Bauer K., ‘Emotion in the Qur’an: an Overview, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 19.2, 2017, pp. 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., ‘Contemporary Iranian Interpretations of the Qur’an and Tradition on Women’s Testimony’. In Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage. E. Kendall and A. Khan, eds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 160-176.
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., ‘A Note on the Relationship Between Tafsīr and Common Understanding, with Reference to Contracts of Marriage’. In Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone, A. Ahmed, R. Hoyland, B. Sadeghi, and A. Silverstein, eds. Leiden, Brill, 2014, 97-111.
Bauer K., ‘Introduction’, In Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis, 2nd/8th – 9th/15th centuries. K. Bauer, ed. Oxford, Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013, pp. 1-16.
Bauer K., ‘Justifying the Genre: A Study of Introductions to Classical Works of Tafsīr’, iIn Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis, 2nd/8th – 9th/15th centuries. K. Bauer, ed. Oxford, Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013,, pp. 39-66.
Bauer K., ‘Spiritual Hierarchy and Gender Hierarchy in Fātimid Ismā‘īlī interpretations of the Qur’ān’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 14.2, 2012, pp. 29-46.
Bauer K., ‘“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, pp. 356-376).

Bauer K., The Syndicate, 2019, with contributions from Lauren Osborne, Omar Anchassi, Johanna Pink, and Ruth Roded, (ed.) Oxford, Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013.
Bauer K., Interview about the book on the New Books Network (podcast): Herbert Berg, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.3 (2018), pp. 639-643
Bauer K., Reading Religion, a publication of the American Academy of Religion by Lauren Osborne, 2017.

Reminiscences on being a student of Patricia Crone’s, entitled ‘With all Good Wishes’, al-Usur al-Wusta, November 2015.
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.