Zishan Ghaffar
Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar (born 1986)[1] is a Quranic studies scholar and a professor of Quranic exegesis at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.[2][3]
Biography
Zishan Ghaffar received his master's degree from Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel in 2011, and earned his Ph.D. in Islamic theology at the University of Münster in 2017.[3] He served as a research associate at the Center for Islamic theology in Münster (2012–2016), and later at the Corpus Coranicum project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2017–2020).[3] He was acting professor for Quranic exegesis at the University of Paderborn in 2020 and has held the w3 professorship for Quranic exegesis there since 2020. He also serves as chairman of the Center for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies.[3]
Selected works
As author
- Der historische Muhammad in der islamischen Theologie (2018)
- Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext. Eschatologie und Apokalyptik in den mittelmekkanischen Suren (2020)[4]
As editor
- Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter (2025)
References
- ^ "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek" (in German). Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. 2025-06-30. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ^ "Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar". Pluriel. 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ a b c d "Prof. Dr. Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar". Universität Paderborn. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ^ Reviews of Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext:
- Bitsch, Sebastian (2021). "Zishan Ghaffar, Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext. Eschatologie und Apokalyptik in den mittelmekkanischen Suren, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2020" (PDF). Der Islam. 98 (2): 591–598. doi:10.1515/islam-2021-0039. ISSN 1613-0928.
- Zellentin, Holger (2021). "Review of Zishan Ahmad GHAFFAR, Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext: Eschatologie und Apokalyptik in den mittelmekkanischen Suren". Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association. 6 (s1): 43–58. doi:10.1515/jiqsa-2021-07s105. ISSN 2474-8420.
- Tawfighi, Fatima. (2023). Criticism and introduction of the Book «Quran in the Context of the History of Religion and the History of the World: Eschatology and Apocalyptic in the Middle Meccan Surahs » by Zishan Ghaffar. Ayeneh-Ue-Pazhoohesh, 33(6 (198) ), 249-259.
- Schmitz, Bertram (2021). "Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext: Eschatologie und Apokalyptik in den mittelmekkanischen Suren". Theologische Literaturzeitung. 7: 657–658.