Walid Ahmad Saleh is a scholar of

Quranic studies Qur'anic studies is the academic study of the Quran, the religious scripture of Islam. Schools Behnam Sadeghi and Mohsen Goudarzi classify scholars of Quranic studies into four groups: traditionalists, revisionists, skeptics, and neo-traditiona ...

and professor of

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

Biography

Walid Saleh attended the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

, and graduated with a BA in Arabic language and literature in 1989. He received a PhD in Islamic studies from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2001. He received a DAAD grant in 1996–1997, and pursued his studies in Hamburg under the tutelage of the late

Albrecht Noth Albrecht Noth (1937 – 22 February 1999) was a German historian of Islam. Noth was born on 23 September 1937 to the Old Testament scholar Martin Noth in Königsberg. He completed his PhD from the Bonn University in 1964 with thesis titled ''Heil ...

. Saleh has received numerous honors and fellowships. He was awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the Mellon Foundation in 2014, and the Humboldt Foundation in Germany has made him a Konrad Adenauer Fellow (2017). Additionally, he has received funding from the SSHRC and the Library of Congress' Kluge Foundation.

Works

* ''In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to Al-Biqa`i's Bible Treatise'' * ''The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition''Reviews of ''The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition'': * * *Stefan Wild, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jul., 2005), pp. 228-230 * Karen Bauer, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2005), pp. 470-473 * Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Vol. 48, Issue 1 (2008), pp. 111-117 * Uri Rubin, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol.30 (2005): 540 – 543. * H. Masud Taj, The Muslim World Book Review, vol.25, no.1 (2004): 36 – 38.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saleh, Walid Ahmad Islamic studies scholars Academic staff of the University of Toronto American University of Beirut alumni Yale University alumni Living people 21st-century Muslim theologians Year of birth missing (living people) Muslim scholars of Islamic studies

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