The Library of Andrew Rippin
The Rise of a Qurʾānic Philologist
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Andrew Rippin, Islamic Text, Qurʾānic Studies, PhilologyAbstract
Andrew Rippin passed away in Victoria, Canada, on 29 November 2016. The current generation of scholars, many of whom began working on Qurʾānic studies within the last decade, have paid a lot of attention to Rippin’s scholarship. His books and articles have been translated and reviewed in Arabic, Indonesian, Malay, Persian, Turkish and Urdu languages, and are the subject of dissertations and articles throughout the Muslim world. As a contribution to Rippin’s legacy , this communication piece provides an account of the young Rippin and a library collection that he accumulated in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming one of the most significant historians of Islam and philologists whose ideas and works contributed to Muslim and non-Muslim Qurʾānic studies.
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Online Sources
“Andrew Rippin: Miniature Intro to the Miniature Qurʾān”. In Conversation with Andrew Rippin. University of Victoria (2014): https://soundcloud.com/universityofvictoria/andrew-rippin-intro-to-quran
“Seminary Mourns Loss of Prof. Willem Bijlefeld, Macdonald Center Founder”: https://www.hartfordinternational.edu/news-events/news/seminary-mourns-loss-prof-willem-bijlefeld-macdonald-center-founder
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