Dr Stephen Burge

Senior Research Associate

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Departments and Units
Qur'anic Studies Unit
Email
sburge@iis.ac.uk
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Burge S.,The Prophet Muhammad: Islam and the Divine Message, Bloomsbury, 2020.
Burge S. (ed.) and Asma Hilali, The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The Fragment and the Whole, Berlin, Gerlach, 2019.
Burge S.,(ed.), The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur’anic Exegesis, Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015; Qur’anic Studies Series 13.
Burge S., Angels in Islam: Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti’s al-Haba’ik fi akhbar al-mala’ik, London, Routledge, 2012; Culture and Civilization in the Middle East 31.

Burge S., ‘Al-Suyūṭī’s Taʾrīkh al-khulafāʾ: A History of Politics or Piety?’ In Ali Ansari (ed.), Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning: Essays in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (London: Gingko Library, 2022), pp. 74-86.
Burge S., ‘The Early Commentators of the Qur’an.’ In George Archer, Maria Dakake and Daniel Madigan (eds) The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 223-234.
Burge S., ‘“Panangelon”: Angelology and Its Relation to Polytheism: A Case Study Exploring Meteorological Angels in Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī’s al-Ḥabāʾik fī akhbār al-malāʾik.’ In Hans-Peter Pökel and Sara Kuehn (eds), The Intermediate Worlds of Angels: Islamic Representations of Celestial Beings in Transcultural Contexts (Beirut: Orient Institut, 2019), pp. 153-169.
Burge S., ‘Compilation Criticism: Reading and Interpreting Ḥadīth Collections through the Prism of Fragmentation and Compilation,’ in Asma Hilali and S. R. Burge (eds), The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The Fragment and the Whole (Berlin: Gerlach, 2019), pp. 87-109.
Burge S., ‘Doctrine and Dogma in the Qur’an,’ in Mustafa Shah and M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 430-440.
Burge S., ‘The theological dynamics of medieval Christian-Muslim relations’, in David Thomas (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Christian-Muslim Relations (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 207-215.
Burge S., ‘Islamic’ in Eric Ziolkowski (ed.), The Bible in Folklore Worldwide. I. A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic Folklores (Berlin: De Gruyter; 2017), pp. 307-330.
Burge S., ‘Evidence of Self-Editing in Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī’s Taḥbīr and Itqān: A Comparison of his Chapters on Asbāb al-nuzūl’, in Antonella Ghersetti (ed.), Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī: Papers from the First Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 143-181.
Burge S., ‘The Angels’ Roles in Death and Judgement: Al-Suyūṭī’s Approach to Hadith,’ in Amanda Phillips and Refqa Abu Remailleh (eds.), The Meeting Place of British Middle Eastern Studies: Emerging Scholars, Emergent Research and Approaches (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009) pp. 40-59.
Burge S., ‘Introduction: Words, Hermeneutics, and the Construction of Meaning’, in S. R. Burge (ed.), The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur’anic Exegesis, (Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015; Qur’anic Studies Series 13), pp. 1-40.
Burge S., ‘Lexicology, Ahadith, Poetry and Tafsir: Defending Lexicological Readings’, in S. R. Burge (ed.), The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur’anic Exegesis, (Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015; Qur’anic Studies Series 13), pp. 157-193.
Burge S., ‘Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti’, in David Thomas and John Chesworth (eds), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History: Vol. 6 (1500-1600) (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 561-568.
Burge S., ‘Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, the Mu’awwidhatan and the Modes of Exegesis’, in Karen Bauer (ed.), Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis (2nd/8th – 9th/15th C.), (London: Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013; Qur’anic Studies Series 9), pp. 277-307.

Burge S., ‘Revelation and Reason: Theological Epistemology in John Macquarrie’s Thought.’ Journal of Anglican Studies 19 (2021), pp. 84-97.
Burge S., ‘The demystification of magic in the Tafsīr al-Manār: An analysis of the exegetical and homiletic devices used in the discussion ‘Mabḥath al-siḥr wa-Hārūt wa-Mārūt,’ Religions 12 (2021), §734, pp. 1-17.
Burge S.,‘The Ḥadīth Literature: What is it? And Where is it?’ Arabica 65:1-2 (2018), pp. 64-83.
Burge S.,‘Myth, Meaning and the Order of Words: Reading Ḥadīth Collections with Northrop Frye and the Development of Compilation Criticism,’ Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 27:2 (2016), pp. 213-228.
Burge S.,‘The Search for Meaning: Tafsir, Hermeneutics, and Theories of Reading,’ Arabica 62:1 (2015), pp. 53-73.
Burge S.,‘Scattered Pearls: Exploring al-Suyuti’s Hermeneutics and Use of Sources in the al-Durr al-manthur fi’l-tafsir bi’l-ma’thur,’ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 24:2 (2013), pp. 251-296.
Burge S.,‘Music, Mysticism and Experience: Sufism and “Spiritual” Journeys in Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook’, Comparative Literature 54:2 (2013), pp. 271-302.
Burge S.,'Reading between the Lines: The Compilation of Hadit and the Authorial Voice’, Arabica 58 (2011) pp. 168 – 197.
Burge S.,‘Impurity/Danger!’ Islamic Law and Society 17:3 (2010), pp. 320–49.
Burge S.,‘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.
Burge S., ‘Angels, Ritual and Sacred Space in Islam’, Comparative Islamic Studies 5:2 (2009), pp. 221–45.
Burge S., ‘The Angels in Surat al-Mala’ika: Exegeses of Q. 35:1’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 10 (2008), pp. 50–70.
Burge S., ‘The Provenance of Suhrawardian Angelology’, Archiv Orientální 76:4 (2008), pp. 435–57.

Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (EI3); entries for: al-Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn; Michael.
Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR); Islam entries for:
- Cherubim; Dress; Earth; Eden, Garden of; Empire; Eye, Eyes; Ezekiel (Book and Person); Fall of Heavenly Beings; Fast; Fate; Feasts and Festivals; Fire; Folklore; Freedom; Gabriel; Garment; Genesis; Genocide; Glory; Gratitude and Ingratitude; Greek and Greeks; Hadith; Hand, Hands; Happiness; Heart; Heifer; Hell; Hero; Hiddenness of God; Holy Family (Christian); Holy Family (Islamic); Homicide; House; Idols, Idolatry; Incantation; Infanticide; Initiation Rites; Intercession; Islam, Bible in: C Exegetical Traditions; Jacob (Patriarch); Jesus, the Lost years of; Job’s Wife; Jonah (Book and Person); Jonah, Sura of; Joshua (Book and Prophet); Judges, Book of; Kalīm Allāh; Khalīl Allāh; Korah, Korahite; Labor (work); Lame, Lameness; Last Supper; Lazy, Idle; Leader, Leadership, Left, Left hand; Lent; Leper; Lewd, Lewdness; Liberation Theology; Lice; Lie, Lying; Life; Life, Book of; Literacy; Liturgy; Locusts; Magi; Man, men; Manger; Mary, nativity of; Mary, Sura of; Matriarch, matriarchs; Matriarchy; Mecca; Medina; Menstruation; Mental disorder; Messenger; Micah (Book and Person); Midian, Midianites; Miriam (Prophet); Misogyny; Mock, mockery; Monuments; Moon, Sura of; Mountain.