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Samuel J Ro

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ID4618770
NAMESamuel J Ro
GIVEN NAMESSamuel J
FAMILY NAMERo
SIGNATURERO S J
AFFILIATIONSTexas Christian University
ORCID0009-0006-7595-6770
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0
  • What Were the Most Popular tafsīr s in Islamic History? Part 2

    Open Access•Samuel J Ro•ARTICLE•Journal of Qur'anic Studies•2025

    Part 1 of this article (JQS 25:3) shared the results of a multi-year project to convert the most important union catalogue of Arabic tafsīr manuscripts, al-Fihris al-shāmil, into a searchable database. The paper used this database to identify the most longitudinally popular commentaries on the Qur’an and assess the extent to which academic scholarship had previously studied them. The present article (Part 2) seeks to provide a preliminary profile…

  • What Were the Most Popular tafsīr s in Islamic History? Part 1

    Open Access•Samuel J Ro•ARTICLE•Journal of Qur'anic Studies•2023

    Hitherto, the field of tafsīr studies has been beset by several challenges that have hindered its ability to produce a reliable historical outline of the genre. These challenges include: (1) the voluminous nature of our sources, both in terms of the sheer number of works and their individual length; (2) the fact that the overwhelming majority of works continue to be available only in manuscript form; (3) the tendency of previous scholarship to fo…

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  • What Were the Most Popular tafsīr s in Islamic History? Part 1

    Open Access•Samuel J Ro•ARTICLE•Journal of Qur'anic Studies•2023

    Hitherto, the field of tafsīr studies has been beset by several challenges that have hindered its ability to produce a reliable historical outline of the genre. These challenges include: (1) the voluminous nature of our sources, both in terms of the sheer number of works and their individual length; (2) the fact that the overwhelming majority of works continue to be available only in manuscript form; (3) the tendency of previous scholarship to fo…

  • What Were the Most Popular tafsīr s in Islamic History? Part 2

    Open Access•Samuel J Ro•ARTICLE•Journal of Qur'anic Studies•2025

    Part 1 of this article (JQS 25:3) shared the results of a multi-year project to convert the most important union catalogue of Arabic tafsīr manuscripts, al-Fihris al-shāmil, into a searchable database. The paper used this database to identify the most longitudinally popular commentaries on the Qur’an and assess the extent to which academic scholarship had previously studied them. The present article (Part 2) seeks to provide a preliminary profile…

Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Arabic (1 work)

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