A Novel Critical Approach to the Leiden Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān (EQ)

In this article, after briefly introducing the Leiden Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān, where we mention the strengths and merits of this work on the Qurʾān, its structural and methodological problems are first addressed. Subsequently, the most important problems with the content of this encyclopedia are deliberated and discussed in a logical manner with complete references and documentation. In this way, through the use of descriptive and analytical methods, the shortcomings and methodological errors in Islamic and Qurʾānic studies are identified and explained.In this article, after briefly introducing the Leiden Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān, where we mention the strengths and merits of this work on the Qurʾān, its structural and methodological problems are first addressed. Subsequently, the most important problems with the content of this encyclopedia are deliberated and discussed in a logical manner with complete references and documentation. In this way, through the use of descriptive and analytical methods, the shortcomings and methodological errors in Islamic and Qurʾānic studies are identified and explained.