image001.jpg    ANDREW RIPPIN           HIST_box_506C.jpg

Professor of Islamic History Specialist in the Qur'an and the history of its interpretation

 

Department of History

University of Victoria
PO Box 3045 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 3P4
Canada

Phone 250 721 7382 (History departmental office)
FAX 250 721 8772
Email: arippin@uvic.ca

 

My textbook, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices, has appeared in a new 4th edition (2012) and has a new accompanying website:

·         http://www.routledge.com/cw/rippin

 

I am editor of two series of books. Please contact me if you have a book you’d like to propose:

 

I am Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies

 

 

I am featured in some video material, if you prefer to learn about me that way:

 

* in discussion with Abdul Karim Soroush at AAR 2011

 

* in the University of Victoria series “Faces of UVic Research

 

* at Bibliotheca Alexandrina “Heritage Continuity” May 2010, lecturing on the Qur’an (currently offline)

 

* appearing very briefly in Decoding the Past - Secrets of the Quran from the History Channel and slightly more expansively in Apocalypse.When? from Vision TV

 

* giving a lecture at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, “Interpreting interpretation”

 

* giving a lecture at UCLA, “Making Biblical prophets Islamic” (podcast only)

 

* giving a lecture at the SOAS Qur’an conference 2011 on “The reception of Euro-American scholarship on the Qur’an and tafsir” (unofficial video)

 

 

Some online interviews and articles about my work include:

 

            * Andrew Rippin and Abdur-Rahman Abuo-Almajd in dialog about Qur’anic studies

           

            * “Contribution of Andrew Rippin to the Qur’anic Studies” and “Important Works on Qur’anic Studies in 21st Century” both by Tauseef Ahmad Parray in Kashmir Images

 

 

I occasionally (well, hardly ever, if the truth be told) update my non-academic blog “Rippin’ Musings”, in case you want to learn more about me: arippin.blogspot.com 

 

If you’d like to know more about life in Victoria and surroundings, highlighting things I do to keep busy beyond my academic life, the following blogs are well worth a visit:

 

My wife’s Bird of the Day

 

My sister’s Truffles and Turkey Tails (on mushrooms)

 

My friend’s Oceanpax paddle run