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Walid Saleh studied Arabic language and literature at the American University of Beirut, earning a BA in 1989, before completing his PhD in Islamic studies at Yale University in 2001. He is a specialist in the Qur'an, the history of its interpretation (Tafsir), the Arabic manuscript tradition, and Islamic apocalyptic literature. Professor Saleh authored the book 'Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition' (Brill, 2004), which offers a detailed study of al-Thalabi's influence on the history of Qur'an commentary. He also published 'Defense of the Bible' (Brill, 2008), which investigates al-Biqa`i’s treatise on the permissibility of quoting Old Scriptures in the Islamic religious tradition. He has received several prestigious fellowships, including the New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation in 2014 and the Konrad Adenauer Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany in 2017. He has obtained grants from the SSHRC and the Kluge Foundation at the Library of Congress. Professor Saleh serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and the Journal of Qur’anic Studies, and teaches courses on Islam, the Qur'an, and the Tafsir tradition. His research includes dozens of articles on various topics related to the Qur'an and Islamic literature.
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