Simon Loynes
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: simon.loynes@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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2.27 (Jan-June '24)
19 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Background
Simon is currently undertaking a 3-year research project that investigates the relationship of the Qur’an to pre-Islamic poetry. He has previously worked as a Research Editor at Harvard University’s Project in Islamic Law and at the Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book project at the Aga Khan University.
He is a specialist in the Qur’an and is particularly interested in its literary aspects, its relationship to early Arabic poetry, and its place in Late Antiquity. His research applies Digital Humanities methodologies to the study of the Qur’an, and he is interested, more broadly, in the digitisation of Arabic texts and the challenges presented by building large-scale digital corpora.
His first monograph, ‘Revelation in the Qur’an’, investigates the Qur’anic concept of revelation through the roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y. It was published in early 2021 in Brill’s Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān series.
He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh (2019) and a MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2014).
Undergraduate teaching
The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book (IMES10086)
Postgraduate teaching
The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book (IMES11078)
Current project grants
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2026)
Past project grants
Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities PhD Studentship (2015-18)