RQR | Review of Qur’anic Research Shari Lowin, Editor rqr@iqsaweb.org www.iqsaweb.org 10.5913/rqr2022v8.01 Review of Qur’anic Research, vol. 8, no. 1 (2022) In this compact book, Martin Whittingham presents the historical beginnings of Muslim attitudes to the Bible. Billed as the first of two volumes, this installment takes us from the Qurʾān and its position on the scriptures of the “People of the Book” to the turn of the fifth century AH / eleventh century CE, i.e., up to and including the writings of Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456/1064) and some of his contemporaries, whom Whittingham sees as marking a watershed in the way Muslims have viewed and approached the Bible. The planned second volume will continue the story to the present day (1). While previous studies have focused on key Muslim thinkers or specific aspects of Muslim scholarly use and/or critique of the Bible, 1 the present work ranges far broader in its scope, seeking to present a chronology of evolving attitudes 1 Most notably, see Camilla Adang, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From lbn Rabban to lbn Hazm (Leiden: Brill, 1996), and Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Intertwined Worlds: Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992). Martin WHITTINGHAM A History of Muslim Views of the Bible: The First Four Centuries Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021 Pp. xvi + 214 Hardcover £79.00. ISBN 9783110334944