Mehdi Azaiez

Mehdi Azaiez (born 1974) is a French Quranic studies scholar and professor of Islamic studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Biography Mehdi Azaiez was born in Paris in 1974.

Works As author Le contre-discours coranique (The Quranic Counter-discourse) (2015)

As editor Le Coran: nouvelles approches (The Quran: New Approaches) (2013) The Qur'an Seminar Commentary / Le Qur'an Seminar. A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages / Commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques (2017) Le Coran : de la tribu à l’empire. Autour de l’œuvre de Jacqueline Chabbi (The Quran: from tribe to empire. Around the work of Jacqueline Chabbi) (2023) Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis (2023) Itinerant Prophets:Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam (2025) with Rémy Gareil and Iyas Hassan