Walid Saleh

Walid Ahmad Saleh is a scholar of Quranic studies and professor of Islamic studies at the University of
Toronto.[1]

Biography
Walid Saleh attended the American University of Beirut, and graduated with a BA in Arabic language and
literature in 1989. He received a PhD in Islamic studies from Yale University in 2001. He received a
DAAD grant in 1996–1997, and pursued his studies in Hamburg under the tutelage of the late Albrecht
Noth.[1] 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.[1]

Works
In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to Al-Biqa`i's Bible Treatise[2]
The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition[3]

See also
Behnam Sadeghi

References
1. "Walid Saleh" (https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/walid-saleh).
Department for the Study of Religion. 2020-05-25. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
2. Reviews of In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to Al-Biqa`i's Bible
Treatise:
Kueny, Kathryn (2009). "In Defense of the Bible" (https://doi.org/10.35632%2Fajis.v26i4.
1365). American Journal of Islam and Society. International Institute of Islamic Thought.
26 (4): 105–107. doi:10.35632/ajis.v26i4.1365 (https://doi.org/10.35632%2Fajis.v26i4.13
65). ISSN 2690-3741 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2690-3741).
David Vishanoff, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, No. 2 (April–June
2009), pp. 323-325
Dayeh, Islam (2008). "In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to al-
Biqāʿī's Bible Treatise". Journal of Qur'anic Studies. Edinburgh University Press. 10 (2):
101–106. doi:10.3366/e146535910900045x (https://doi.org/10.3366%2Fe14653591090
0045x). ISSN 1465-3591 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1465-3591).
AO Sanni, Ilorin Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2012)
Guo, Li (2011). "In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to al-
Biqā'ī's Bible Treatise (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. Project Muse. 80 (2):
270–271. doi:10.1353/utq.2011.0050 (https://doi.org/10.1353%2Futq.2011.0050).
 ISSN 1712-5278 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1712-5278). S2CID 161529832 (https://a
pi.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161529832).
3. Reviews of The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition:
Rizvi, Sajjad H. (2007). "The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition" (https://doi.org/1
0.35632%2Fajis.v24i3.1537). American Journal of Islam and Society. International
Institute of Islamic Thought. 24 (3): 130–132. doi:10.35632/ajis.v24i3.1537 (https://doi.or
g/10.35632%2Fajis.v24i3.1537). ISSN 2690-3741 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2690-3
741).
BERG, HERBERT (2005). "WALID A. SALEH, The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr
Tradition: The Quran Commentary of al-Thalabi (d. 427/1035), Texts and Studies on the
Quran". International Journal of Middle East Studies. Cambridge University Press
(CUP). 37 (4): 617–619. doi:10.1017/s0020743805242228 (https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs
0020743805242228). ISSN 0020-7438 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0020-7438).
S2CID 163138360 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:163138360).
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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