• Michael Sells, Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations, White Clouds Press, 2007

• Jane Dammen McAuliffe (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 

• Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al. (ed) The Study Qur’an, HarperOne, 2015

• Alfred Guillaume, “The Life of Muḥammad: A Translation of Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīrat Rasūl Allāh”, Chapter on the beginning of revelation

• Arthur Jeffery, “Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’ān”, Introduction

• Christopher Melchert, “Ibn Mujāhid and the Establishment of Seven Qur’anic Readings”, Studia Islamica, Vol. 91 (2000), pp. 5-22

• Fazlur Rahman, “Major Themes of the Qur’ān”, Chapter 3: Man in Society, Chapter 8: Emergence of the Muslim Community

• Fred M. Donner, “The Qur’ān in Recent Scholarship: Challenges and Desiderata” in The Qur’ān in its Historical Context (ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds), pp. 29-50.

• G.W. Bowersock, “Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity”, Chapter 1: Byzantium, Ethiopia, and

the Jewish Kingdom of South Arabia

• Gabriel S. Reynolds, “Introduction: Qur’ānic Studies and its Controversies” in  The Qur’ān in its Historical Context (ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds), pp. 1-26.

• Jalāl al-din al-Ṣuyūṭī, “al-Itqān fī ʿUlūm al-Qur’ān (The Perfection in the Qur’ānic Sciences)”, tr. Hamid Algar et. al, Vol. I, Author’s Introduction

• Michael Pregill, “The Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an: The Problem of the Jewish Influence on Islam”

• Reimund Leicht, “The Qur’ānic Commandment of Writing Down Loan Agreements (Q 2:282)” in The Qur’ān in Context (ed. Angelika Neuwirth et al.), pp 593-614

• Th. Nöldeke and F. Schwally, “The History of the Qur’ān”, tr. W. Behn, pp. 315-368. and pp. 369-388.