Dr Karen Bauer (PhD, Princeton) is an Associate Professor in ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Studies at the Äñ´ó´óÓ°Ôº. Dr Bauer’s research centres on the Qur’an and its reception history, the history of emotions in Islam, and gender in Islamic history and thought. Dr Bauer is currently pursuing a cultural history approach to the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²ÔMuslims believe that the Holy ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of 23 years in the early 7th century CE. More.
Dr. Bauer’s most recent book, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô: a Patronage of Piety (with Feras Hamza; Oxford University Press, 2023), applies a historical-critical method to the study of women in the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô. It highlights the importance of the late antique social structures of households and patronage for the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô’s moral worldview. This book also shows how ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic doctrine on women and sexual morality was central to the identity of the emergent Muslim community. Her other publications include: An Anthology of ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Commentaries, Volume 2: On Women (ed. with Feras Hamza, Oxford University Press/Äñ´ó´óÓ°Ôº, 2021), which comprises annotated translations of ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic commentaries and extensive introductory materials, including a chapter on women in the Qur’an; Gender Hierarchy in the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which traces the history of Qur’anic interpretation (tafsir) through interpretations of verses on women; and Aims, Methods, and Contexts of ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Exegesis (2nd/8th – 9th/15th centuries) (ed., Oxford University Press, 2013).
She has published articles on subjects as diverse as emotion and emotional rhetoric in the Qur’an, women’s right to be judges in Islamic law, and the audiences of tafsir. Dr Bauer is an active member of the International ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Studies Association (IQSA) and is co-series editor, along with Joseph Lowry and Shawkat Toorawa, of the book series ISIQ (IQSA studies in the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô), published by De Gruyter. She is on the team of the KITAB project at the .
