Ana Davitashvili (PhD, University of Bamberg, 2021) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on literary aspects of the Qurʾan, methodological approaches to the study of Muslim traditions, and the comparative study of pre-Islamic Syriac Christianity, the Qurʾan, early hadith and Isrāʾīlīyāt. Her monograph, Von den Huris zu den gläubigen Frauen im Paradies: Ein Beitrag zur Untersuchung des frühislamischen Frauenbildes (Brill/Schöningh, 2024), based on her doctoral dissertation, explores the depictions of the ḥūr ʿīn in the Qurʾan, pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and early Islamic exegesis. Other recent publications include “The Inner-Qurʾānic Development of the Images of Women in Paradise: From the ḥūr ʿīn to Believing Women,” Journal of the International Qurʾanic Studies Association 7 (2022). Ana is currently working on a book project that unearths the affinities of the Qurʾan with pre-Islamic West and East Syrian Christian traditions.

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