the comparative study of pre-Islamic Syriac Christianity, the Qurʾan, early hadith and Isrāʾīlīyāt. Her monograph, Von den Huris zu den gläubigen Frauen im Paradies: Ein Beitrag zur Untersuchung des frühislamischen Frauenbildes (Brill/Schöningh, 2024), based on her doctoral dissertation, explores the depictions of the ḥūr ʿīn and believing women in the Qurʾanic paradise, pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and early Islamic exegesis. Other recent and forthcoming publications include “The Inner-Qurʾānic Development of the Images of Women in Paradise: From the ḥūr ʿīn to Believing Women,” Journal of the International Qurʾanic Studies Association 7 (2022) and “Sealing and the Root kh-t-m in the Qurʾan and pre-Islamic Christian Literature: On the ʿSeal of the Prophetsʾ and Disbelievers Having ʿSeals on Their Hearts and Hearingʾ,” Der Islam 2 (2025) (forthcoming). Davitashvili has recently edited the collected volume The Qurʾan and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs (forthcoming with Brill, in its series Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān).
Ana Davitashvili's Book:
https://brill.com/display/title/64311?language=de&srsltid=AfmBOorFf4KHmtpV33rm-pFjXTqgAC1gifQRBn8bo9h-sq3oexHCGomO
Her article on the images of women in Paradise:
https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/143192?show=full#:~:text=Women%20appear%20in%20the%20qur%CA%BE%C4%81nic,are%20treated%20as%20moral%20agents
https://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jiqsa/article/view/526 (the official link)
Her entry on women in Paradise (EQ online)
https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EQO/EQCOM-059271.xml
Her most recent article:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/islam-2025-0017/html