ANDREW RIPPIN 
Professor of Islamic History Specialist in the Qur'an and the
history of its interpretation
Department
of History
University
of
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