Ana Davitashvili 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 and believing women in the Qurʾanic paradise, pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and early Islamic exegesis. Other recent and forthcoming 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) and “Sealing and the Root kh-t-m in the Qurʾan and pre-Islamic Christian Literature: On the ʿSeal of the Prophetsʾ and Disbelievers Having ʿSeals on Their Hearts and Hearingʾ,” Der Islam 2 (2025) (forthcoming). Davitashvili has recently edited the collected volume The Qurʾan and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs (forthcoming with Brill, in its series Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān).

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