Center for Islamic Theology

List of Publications

1992

  • “The Science of the Qurʾānic Readings and the Computer”, 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Multilingual Computing, 10-12 December 1992 (Arabic and Roman Script). The Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham (U.K.).


1996

  • “Fatrat al-waḥy wa-khtilāf al-riwāyāt fī muddatihā”, al-Isrāʾ [Jerusalem] 4 (1417/1996), pp. 45-52.
  • “Können die verschollenen Korantexte der Frühzeit durch nichtkanonische Lesarten rekonstruiert werden?”, The Qurʾan as Text; ed. Stefan Wild. Leiden: Brill, pp. 27-40. [Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science; v. 27]


1997

  • “ʿIṣmat al-anbiyāʾ ʿalā ḍauʾ al-qirāʾāt al-qurʾāniyya”, al-Risāla [Beit Berl] 6 (1418/1997), pp. 341-350.
  • “Al-naṣṣ al-qurʾānī wa-muḥāwalāt ahl al-iʿtizāl al-awāʾil taṭwīʿah li-mabādiʾihim wa-uṣūlihim min khilāl qirāʾāt šādhdha wa-mauḍūʿa”, al-Isrāʾ [Jerusalem] 8 (1417/1997), pp. 73-80.


1998

  • “Ẓāhirat al-taʿrīf fī l-amṣār al-islāmiyya”, al-Risāla [Beit Berl] 7 (1419/1998), pp. 309-330.


1999

  • “Qirāʾāt mukhtalifa li-aṣl wāḥid”, Israel Oriental Studies [Tel Aviv] 19 (1999), pp. 359-377.
  • “Ẓāhirat al-salīqiyya wa-atharuhā ʿalā qirāʾat al-Qurʾān”, al-Risāla [Beit Berl] 8 (1420/1999), pp. 147-188.


2000

  • “Nuqūl taurātiyya fī l-adab al-islāmī al-qadīm: Qirāʾa jadīda li-asbābihā wa-ahdāfihā wa-abʿād tauẓīfihā”, al-Risāla [Beit Berl] 9 (1421/2000), pp. 387-430.


2004

  • Yūsuf Efendizāde (d. 1167/1754): Risāla fī ḥukm al-qirāʾa bi-l-qirāʾāt al-šawādhdh. Edited with an introduction by Omar Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Ghanī Hamdan & Taghrīd Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Hamdan. Amman: Dār al-Faḍīla, 1. edition, 1425/2004, 150 pages.


2005

  • “Min qaḍāyā al-rasm al-ʿuthmānī 1”, al-Furqān [Amman] 39 (1426/2005), pp. 16-17. [Some issues of Qurʾanic orthography 1]
  • “Min qaḍāyā al-rasm al-ʿuthmānī 2”, al-Furqān [Amman] 40 (1426/2005), pp. 24-26. [Some issues of Qurʾanic orthography 2]
  • “Min qaḍāyā al-rasm al-ʿuthmānī 3”, al-Furqān [Amman] 41 (1426/2005), pp. 16-17. [Some issues of Qurʾanic orthography 3]
  • “Min qaḍāyā al-rasm al-ʿuthmānī 4”, al-Furqān [Amman] 42 (1426/2005), pp. 18-19. [Some issues of Qurʾanic orthography 4]


2006

  • “Min aʿlām aṣḥāb al-maṣāḥif 1: ʿUqba b. Nāfiʿ al-Juhanī”, al-Furqān [Amman] 51 (1427/2006), pp. 28-31. [Private Qurʾanic codices from the 7th Century a. C.]
  • “Min aʿlām aṣḥāb al-maṣāḥif 2: Mālik b. abī ʿĀmir”, al-Furqān [Amman] 52 (1427/2006), pp. 36-39. [Private Qurʾanic codices from the 7th Century a. C.]
  • “Min aʿlām aṣḥāb al-maṣāḥif 3: Khālid b. Maʿdān al-Ḥimṣī”, al-Furqān [Amman] 54 (1427/2006), pp. 38-40. [Private Qurʾanic codices from the 7th Century a. C.]
  • “Min aʿlām naqaṭat al-maṣāḥif 1: Bidāyat naqṭ al-maṣāḥif”, al-Furqān [Amman] 55 (1427/2006), pp. 30-32. [The Beginning of using of diacritical points within Qurʾanic exemplars]
  • Ahwāzī (d. 446/1055): Mufradat al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. Edited with an introduction by Omar Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Ghanī Hamdan. Amman: Dār Ibn Kathīr, 1. edition, 1427/2006, 617 pages. [Text edition of the non-canonical Qurʾanic reading of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 110/728) from Baṣra]
  • Studien zur Kanonisierung des Korantextes. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1. edition, 2007, XI/334 pages.


2007

  • Ahwāzī (d. 446/1055): Mufradat Ibn Muḥayṣin al-Makkī. Edited with an introduction by Omar Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Ghanī Hamdan. Amman: Dār Ibn Kathīr, 1. edition, 1428/2007, 447 pages. [Text edition of the non-canonical Qurʾanic reading of Ibn Muḥayṣin (d. 123/741) from Mecca]
  • “Dreams phenomenon in qirāʾāt-works and qurrāʾ-biographies” (Arabic). Journal of al-Imam al-Shatibi Institute for Quranic Studies 4 (2007/1428), pp. 259-319.
  • “The second maṣāḥif-project in the Umayyads period” (Arabic). Journal of Qur’anic Research and Studies 4 (1428/2007), pp. 63-116.


2008

  • “Iclām ahl al-Baṣā’ir bi-mā awradahu Ibn al-Jazarī mina l-kunūz wa-dh-dhakhā’ir: Inventory of works on Qur’anic sciences mentioned in Ghāyat an-nihāya of Ibn al-Jazarī” (Arabic). Journal of al-Imam al-Shatibi Institute for Quranic Studies 5 (1429/2008), pp. 297-444.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Schmidtke, Sabine: “Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī (d. 415/1025) on the Promise and Threat. An Edition of a Fragment of his Kitāb al-mughnī fī abwāb al-tawḥīd wa-l-ʿadl preserved in the Firkovitch-Collection, St. Petersburg (II Firk. Arab. 105, ff. 14-92)”. Mèlanges de l’Institut dominican d’Etudes orientales 27 (2008), pp. 37-117.
  • “The Answers of Yūsuf Efendī-Zāde to several issues pertinent to the recitation of the Qur’an: A Critical edition with an introduction” (Arabic). Journal of al-Imam al-Shatibi Institute for Quranic Studies 6 (1429/2008), pp. 301-403.
  • “Tārikh adab al-maṣāḥif”. Iḍā’āt [Achva, Shikmim] 1 (1429/2008), pp. 159-214.


2009

  • “Zur Rolle frühislamischer Grammatiktheorien in der Entwicklung der koranischen Orthographie”. Modern Controversies in Qurʾanic Studies. Ed. M. Nekroumi & Jan Meise. Hamburg: EB-Verlag, 2009, pp. 45-95. [Bonner Islamstudien; v. 13]
  • Al-Ahwāzī wa-juhūduh fī ʿulūm al-qirāʾāt with two edited fragments of Kitāb al-iqnāʿ and Kitāb al-tafarrud wa-l-ittifāq. Amman/Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islāmī/ Mu’assasat al-Rayyān, 1. edition, 1430/2009, 440 pages.
  • Aḍwāʾ jadīda ʿalā al-rasm al-ʿUthmānī. Amman/Beirut: Al-Maktab al-Islāmī/ Mu’assasat al-Rayyān, 1. edition, 1430/2009, 452 pages.
  • “Al-Wuqūf al-mafrūḍa wa-l-wuqūf al-mukaffira fī l-Qur’ān al-Karīm”. Iḍā’āt [Achva, Shikmim] 2 (1430/2009), pp. 87-126.
  • “Shumūl al-taʿārīf li-mā awradahu al-Dānī fī Jāmiʿ al-bayān min nuqūl al-taṣānīf” (Arabic). Journal of Qur’anic Research and Studies 8 (1430/2009) pp. 207-278.


2010

  • “The second Maṣāḥif Project: A Step towards the Canonization of the Qurʾanic Text”. In Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, and Michael Marx: The Qurʾān in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qurʾānic Milieu. Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 795-835. [Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān; vol. 6]
  • “Tracts on obligatory waqfs and articulations of disbelief in the Holy Quran” (Arabic). Journal of al-Imam al-Shatibi Institute for Quranic Studies 9 (1431/2010), pp. 291-368.
  • “Min al-maṣāḥif al-ʿutuq”. Iḍā’āt [Achva, Shikmim] 3 (1431/2010), pp. 1-38.
  • “Zallat al-qāri’ li-Ṭaḥṭāwī: dirāsa wa-taḥqīq”. Iḍā’āt [Achva, Shikmim] 3 (1431/2010), pp. 199-224.

2012

  • Nukat al-Kitāb al-Mughnī: A Recension of ‛Abd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī’s (d. 415/1025) al-Mughnī fī Abwāb al-Tawḥīd wa-l-‛Adl: al-kalām fī l-tawlīd, al-kalām fī l-istiṭā‛a, al-kalām fī l-taklīf, al-kalām fī l-naẓar wa-l-ma‛ārif. The extant parts introduced and edited by Omar Hamdan and Sabine Schmidtke. Berlin/Beirut: Klaus Schwarz Verlag/Orient-Institut, 2012, XXV/415/24 P.
  • “The Balance of Power in Baṣra during the Period of Umayyad Rule, with a Particular Emphasis on the Construction of Mosques”. Hikma [Osnabrück] 3/5 (2012), pp. 221-225.


2013

  • Yūsuf b. ‛Alī b. Ǧubāra al-Hudalī: Kitāb al-taǧwīd (Recitation of the Qurʼān). Edited with an introduction by Omar Hamdan. Beirut/Amman: Muʾassasat al-Rayyān/al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1434/2013, 116 P.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hibaoui, Abdelmalek: “Prophetenerwartungen der mekkanischen Araber und der medinensischen Juden aus islamischer Sicht”, in Anja Middelbeck-Varwick/Mohammad Gharaibeh/Hansjörg Schmid/Aysun Yaşar (Hg.): Die Boten Gottes. Prophetie in Christentum und Islam. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2013, pp. 37-48.
  • “Hadith-Kritik am Beispiel der mawḍūʽāt-Literatur”. Hikma [Osnabrück] 4/6 (2013), pp. 34-42.
  • “Aršīf al-mustašriq Bergsträsser”, in al-Qirāʼāt al-qurʼāniyya fī l-‛ālam al-islāmī: awḍā‛ wa-maqāṣid. Marrakech, Morocco: Markaz al-Imām Abī ‛Amr al-Dānī lil-Dirāsāt wal-Buḥūṯ al-Qirāʼiyya al-Mutaḫiṣṣasa / al-Rābiṭa al-Muḥammadiyya lil-‛Ulamāʼ, 1. Publishing, 1434/2013, v. 2, pp. 1087-1143.
  • “Zallat al-qāri’ fī l-fatāwā al-hindiyya”. Maǧallat al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmiyya [Laghouat, Algeria] 2 (1434/2013), pp. 17-52.
  • Al-Hudalī and his Approach to the Sciences of the Readings and Recitation of the Qurʼān in View of the Art of al-Maqāṭi‛ and al-Mabādiʼ with a critical edition of his Kitāb al-Waqf (Elucidation of the pause and beginning in the Qurʾān). Amman: al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1. Publishing, 1434/2013, 148 P.

2014

  • "Aṭ-Ṭabarī and the Divine Self-Conception in the Qur’an: Rejecting Anthropomorphic Concepts of Allāh as exemplified by the sūrat al-iḫlāṣ” (Ger.), Hikma [Journal of Islamic Theology and Religious Education, Osnabrück, Germany] 5/8 (2014), pp. 38-46.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds): Kitāb faḍā’il al-Qur’ān wal-qurrā’, Kitāb at-tajwīd, Kitāb al-ʽadad, Kitāb al-waqf min Kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2014, 536 p.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds): Kitāb al-asānīd min Kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2014, 567 p.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds): Tatimmat kitāb al-asānīd min Kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2014, 572 p.

2015

  • “Zur Gewaltdebatte in der klassischen und modernen Koranexegese”, in Ina Wunn & Beate Schneider (Hrsg.): Das Gewaltpotenzial der Religionen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2015, S. 57-74. [Religionsforum; 11]
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds.): Kitāb al-idghām, Kitāb al-imāla, Kitāb al-hamza, Kitāb al-madd wal-waqf li-Ḥamza, Kitāb al-hā’āt wa-mīmāt al-jamʽ, Kitāb at-taʽawwuth wat-tasmiya wat-tahlil wat-takbīr min Kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2015, 577 p.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds.): Kitāb al-farsh min Kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2015, 542 p.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds.): Tatimmat kitāb al-farsh min Kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2015, 422 p.
  • Hamdan, Omar & Hamdan, Taghrid (eds.): Fahāris kitāb al-kāmil fī l-qirā’āt al-khamsīn by al-Hudhalī (d. 465/1073). Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1436/2015, 537 p.
  • “Ẓāhirat at-takhmīs wat-ta‛shīr fī nuzūl al-Qur’ān wa-atharuhā fī ṭarā’iq at-talaqqī al-awwal”, in al-Talaqqī al-qurʼānī fī l-‛ahd an-nabawī: anmāṭ wa-ma’ālāt. Marrakech, Morocco: Markaz al-Imām Abī ‛Amr ad-Dānī lid-Dirāsāt wal-Buḥūth al-Qirāʼiyya al-Mutakhaṣṣisa / ar-Rābiṭa al-Muḥammadiyya lil-‛Ulamāʼ, 1. Publishing, 1436/2015, V. 1, pp. 379-430.
  • “al-Qaṣīda al-khurāsāniyya fi dhikr makhārij al-ḥurūf wa-ṣifātihā: dirāsa wa-taḥqīq” [arab., Second Title: “Al-Qaṣīda al-khurāsāniyya on the Arabic Phonetics (the Science of Tajwīd): a Study and Text Edition”]. Journal of al-Imam al-Shatibi Institute for Quranic Studies 19 (1436/2015), pp. 321-365.
  • “Zur Problematik der vermeintlich vom dritten Kalifen ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān stammenden Aussage «Es befinde sich eine Art von laḥn im Muṣḥaf»: Ein Beitrag zur frühen Orthographie des Korantextes”, in F. Déroche, Ch. J. Robin et M. Zink (éd.): Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2015, pp. 207-217.
  • Brooks, Patrick & Hamdan, Omar: “Glück, Leid und Theodizee im Lichte der koranischen Soteriologie – Ein praktisch-theologischer Erklärungsversuch”. Hikma [Osnabrück] 6/11 (2015), pp. 123-146.

2016

  • Hamdan, Omar & Brooks, Patrick: “Aus heiterem Himmel? – Zur Problematik der zeitlichen Einordnung der Sūrat al-Fātiḥa, Sūrat al-Kawṯar und Sūrat al-Iḫlāṣ”. Hikma [Osnabrück] 7/1 (2016) 43-73.
  • “Ambiguität koranischer Sprache als exegetische Herausforderung – Eine Untersuchung zur sūrat al-Fātiḥa”. In Ursula Roth / Jörg Seip (Hrsg.), Schriftinszenierungen. Bibelhermeneutische und texttheoretische Zugänge zur Predigt. München, Don Bosco, 2016, pp. 110-129. (Ökumenische Studien zur Predigt [ÖSP]; Band 10).
  • “Al-Imām al-Huḏalī wa-riḥlatuh al-kubrā fī ṭalab al-‛ilm” [English title: “The Scholar al-Huḏalī (d. 465/1073) and his grand journey in pursuit of knowledge”]. In Yaseen Kittani (ed.), Manifestations of Travel in the Spaces of Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture (Ara.). Baqa al-Gharbiyya: al-Qasemi Arabic Language Academy – al-Qasemi College of Education, 1437/2016, pp. 9-30.
  • “Gesang ist nicht Gebet: Musik in der islamischen Theologie”. In Bernhard König, Tuba Isik, Cordula Heupts (Hg.), Singen als interreligiöse Begegnung: Musik für Juden, Christen und Muslime. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016, S. 31-37. [Beiträge zur komparativen Theologie; Bd. 28]
  • “Al-Maqāri՚ at-taʿlīmiyya fī bilād aš-Šām fī ḫilāfat al-Fārūq” [English title: “The Qurʾān academies in Greater Syria during the caliphate of ʿUmar b. al-Ḫaṭṭāb”]. Al-Majmaʿ: Studies in Arabic Language, Literature, and Thought 11 (1438/2016) 133-152.
  • “Luqmān und die Prinzipien islamischer Erziehung: Praktische Koranexegese am Beispiel von Sure 31:12-29”. Braunschweiger Beiträge zur Religionspädagogik 148-2 (2016) 33-43.

2017

  • “Al-Qaṣīda al-lālakāʼiyya li-Abī ʿAbd al-Lāh al-Lālakāʼī bi-riwāyat al-Ahwāzī: dirāsa wa-taḥqīq” [Second title: “Al-Qaṣīda al-lālakāʼiyya on the rules of tajwīd by Abū ʿAbd al-Lāh al-Lālakāʼī (d. 4/10 cent.) in the transmission of al-Ahwāzī (d. 446/1055): a Study and Text Edition”]. Journal of Tibyān for Qur՚ānic Studies 26 (1438/2017) 1-55.
  • “Al-manẓūma ar-rā՚iyya fī rasm al-muṣḥaf liš-Šāṭibī wa-šurūḥuhā: qirā՚at al-mawrūṯ al-mubakkir al-mafqūd min ḫilāl al-lāḥiq wal-muta՚aḫḫir” (Ara.) [English title: The poem rhymed with rā՚ concerning the Qur՚ānic orthography by aš-Šāṭibī (d. 590/1194) and its commentaries: reading of the early lost heritage through the following late heritage]. MIDÉO 32 (2017) 167-216.
  • Abū Ḥafṣ an-Nasafī, Naǧm ad-Dīn ‛Umar b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad (461-537/1068-1142): Zallat al-qāri՚; studied and edited by Omar Hamdan with Foreword by Ahmad Shukri. Amman: Dar Ammar/Islamic Office, 1438/2017, 114 pages.
    [Printed with support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)]
  • Abū ʿAbd al-Lāh al-Khurāsānī, Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Muḥammad al-Muqri՚ (d. 4./10. cent.): al-Qaṣīda al-khurāsāniyya fi dhikr makhārij al-ḥurūf wa-ṣifātihā bi-riwāyat al-Ahwāzī [English Title: al-Qaṣīda al-khurāsāniyya on the Arabic Phonetics & the rules of the tajwīd in the transmission of al-Ahwāzī (d. 446/1055)]; studied and edited by Omar Hamdan. Amman: Islamic Office, 1438/2017, 58 pages.
    [Printed with support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)]
  • Abū ʿAbd al-Lāh al-Lālakāʼī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-ʿIǧlī al-Baṣrī al-Muqri՚ (d. 4/10 cent.): al-Qaṣīda al-lālakāʼiyya (fī aḥkām at-tajwīd) bi-riwāyat al-Ahwāzī [English title: al-Qaṣīda al-lālakāʼiyya (on the rules of tajwīd) in the transmission of al-Ahwāzī (d. 446/1055)]; studied and edited by Omar Hamdan. Amman: Islamic Office, 1438/2017, 80 pages.
    [Printed with support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)]
  • Hamdan, Omar & Brooks, Patrick: Von der Dschahiliyya zum Islam. Koranwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur mekkanischen Verkündigung des Propheten Muḥammad. Berlin: EB-Verlag, [1438]/2017, 276 S.
    [Gedruckt mit Unterstützung vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)]
  • “Ẓāhirat al-muǧāwara bil-Quds aš-Šarīf wa-daymūmatuhā ʿalā ṭ-ṭabaqāt wal-aʿṣār maʿ dirāsah li-makānatihā d-dīniyya wat-tārīḫiyya fī l-Islām”. In Yaseen Kittani (ed.): al-Madīna al-falasṭīniyya fī l-adab wal-fann. Baqa al-Gharbiyya: Al-Qasemi Arabic Language Academy, 1438/2017, pp. 17-96.
  • “Ḥalaqāt al-iqrāʼ fī bilād al-ʿIrāq fī ḫilāfatay al-Fārūq wa-Ḏī n-Nūrayn” [English title: “The Qurʾān Academies of Iraq in the Time of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb and ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān”]. Al-Majmaʿ 12 (1439/2017), pp. 157-187.