Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (d. 465/1072) is a pivotal figure in the development of the Sufi tradition. The articles that comprise the present issue of the Journal of Sufi Studies propose to shed new light on understudied areas in Qushayrī’s thought, corpus, and posthumous reception.

The need to confront issues of race and white supremacy in our teaching of religion is critically important, but through the pedagogical convention of naming, we take the first step in inviting our students to understand the hows and whys of it. I will explore the ways that Charles Long's theory of signification and counter‐signification can be pedagogically deployed to incorporate intersectional interventions in the teaching of religion in America, specifically in the case of an Islam in America course.

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Objective This study aims to describe the trends in community incidence, community prevalence, mortality, overnight hospital admission rates and average overnight inpatient length of stay (ALOS) for anorexia nervosa (AN) amongst young females aged 15-29 in Australia, between 1998–2018. Methods Hospitalisation and ALOS data was obtained from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare principal data cubes. Epidemiological data relating to community-level incidence, community-level prevalence, disability adjusted life years (DALY) and mortality were obtained from the Global Health Data Exchange. We analysed the community and hospital rates for AN in 3 female age groups, 15-19, 20-24 and 25-29. Results Overnight hospital female admission rates for AN have substantially increased over the past two decades, with a higher rate increase between 2008-2018 for 15-29 age groups. The largest absolute increases were seen in the 15-19 female age group. Community prevalence and DALYs increased slightly, whilst community incidence has remained relatively stable. During the study period, mortality rates and the average hospital inpatient length of stay for AN declined for females 15-29 years. Conclusion Overnight hospitalisation rates for AN particularly increased amongst young females (15-29) in Australia over the past decade. Less substantial increases in community incidence, community prevalence and DALYs, and declining mortality were also observed.

The Sunni tradition developed an array of strategies for interpreting the Qur’an, which were discussed and refined across a number of genres of hermeneutical literature. This chapter focuses on ʿulūm al-Qurʾān or the ‘sciences of the Qur’an’. Special attention is paid to the historically significant ʿulūm al-Qurʾān treatises composed by Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥabīb (d.406/1016), al-Zarkashī (d. 794/1392), and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505). The other genres of relevant literature and scriptural issues covered herein include the arrangement and chronology of the Qur’an, occasions of revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), abrogation (naskh), lexicography, and variant readings (qiraʾāt).