Scott Lucas

Associate Professor
  • School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies
  • Religious Studies Program

SCOTT LUCAS is an associate professor of Islamic Studies at the UA whose research explores Islam's legal, theological, and spiritual traditions in the premodern period. He has been working with Arabic manuscripts from Yemen written by scholars in the Zaydi Shi'i tradition. He is also studying two famous Qur'an commentaries from the Sunni tradition and published a two-volume translation of selections from an early encyclopedic Qur'an commentary.

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