Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau is Associate professor in History of Muslim Worlds at the University of Strasbourg and Director of the ‘Islamology’ programme of the Labex RESMED, which promotes the development of academic studies on the Koran, its interpretation and the texts and practices relating to the construction of the Mahomet character as a Prophet, in particular by means of an international summer academy (June 2017). She has taught at the universities of Groningen (the Netherlands) and Aix-Marseille. Her fields of research are classical Islamology, the Koran, other founding texts of Islam (hadith, tafsir), Arabic philology, the history of the beginnings of Islam. The first two parts of her thesis are published in the book The Koran by herself. Vocabulary and Argument of Koranic Self-Referential Discourse, Leiden, Brill, 2014, 432 p. The last part, concerning the chronology of the Koranic text, will appear at the end of 2017. For this thesis, she received the IISMM Young Researchers Award 2010-2013, and the Iranian ‘Islamic Book of the Year Award’ in 2015.
- Le Coran par lui-même. Vocabulaire et argumentation du discours coranique autoréférentiel Leiden, Brill, 2014, 432 p