Modern texts on women in the Qurʾān published in the last quarter of the twentieth century in Euro-American languages are unparalleled in any other period since the late eighteenth century. This proliferation of texts in English and other European languages immediately raises the question of language as a determinant of scholarship on modern interpretation of women in the Qurʾān. In attempting to categorize the plethora of literature on this topic – whether in Asian or Euro-American languages – …