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Shuaib Ally

Shuaib Ally is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tübingen. His research on classical Arabic literary theory and rhetoric (balāgha) and Qur’an commentary (tafsīr) integrates textual analysis with social-historical contextualization and archival investigation. His first book project is on the Dalāʾil al-iʿjāz (Markers of Inimitability) of ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, the eleventh century founder of the discipline of balāgha; he tells the history of the reception of the Dalāʾil until the modern period through paratextual material found in extant manuscripts of the work. His dissertation (University of Toronto, 2022) on which this project is based received a Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in Middle East Studies: Humanities, Honorable Mention, from the Middle East Studies Association. His work on balāgha and tafsīr has appeared in the Journal of Qur’anic Studies and Asiatische Studien, and is forthcoming in Arabica, Mamlūk Studies Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the Cambridge History of Rhetoric.