title: Walid Saleh
text: # Walid Saleh
  
  Walid Ahmad Saleh is a scholar of Quranic studies and professor of Islamic studies at the University of Toronto.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Walid Saleh attended the American University of Beirut, and graduated with a BA in Arabic language and literature in 1989. He received a PhD in Islamic studies from Yale University in 2001. He received a DAAD grant in 1996–1997, and pursued his studies in Hamburg under the tutelage of the late Albrecht Noth. Saleh has received numerous honors and fellowships. He was awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the Mellon Foundation in 2014, and the Humboldt Foundation in Germany has made him a Konrad Adenauer Fellow (2017). Additionally, he has received funding from the SSHRC and the Library of Congress' Kluge Foundation.
  
  ## Works
  
  * In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to Al-Biqa`i's Bible Treatise
  * The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition
  