Introducing the Qurʾānology Series

The Qurʾānology series is a 20-volume body of scholarly work by Dr. Karim Rastegar, M.D., Ph.D. — neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and retired Associate Professor of Neurophysiology at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Each volume examines a specific domain of the physical and human world through close reading of the Qurʾān, drawing on the latest findings in cosmology, physics, biology, neuroscience, and the social sciences.

The series proceeds from a single methodological premise: that the Qurʾān’s mutashābihāt — its analogical and layered verses — encode empirical truths in the language available at the time of revelation, designed to yield deeper meaning as human scientific knowledge advances. The task of Qurʾānology is to work through that process of retrieval, volume by volume, across the full breadth of the natural world.

The twenty volumes span ten categories: the nature of the Qurʾān itself, the relationship between science and religion, Qurʾānic ontology, physics and cosmology, earth sciences, the life sciences, human sciences including neuroscience and psychology, the social sciences, theology, and eschatology. All volumes are complete in Persian. English translations are being prepared under the auspices of the Quranic Sciences Institute.

The first volume, Fundamentals of Qurʾānology, was submitted to Brill Publishing in April 2026. Explore the full series on our Publications page.