This new issue of Philological Encounters opens with a research article by Claire Gallien, who studies the interconnections between philosophy and theology in Ibn Ṭufayl’s (d. 581/1185) life and the references to the Qurʾān and to Islamic theology in his Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, before tracking the engagement with the Qurʾān and Islamic theology in the early-modern Latin and English variants of the tale.

In the second article, Markus Messling commemorates the philologist and editor Maurice Olender (1946–2022), who was a member of the advisory board of Philological Encounters.

The third article is a Philological Conversation with the cultural historian Dilip M. Menon, conducted by Mahmoud Al-Zayed and addressing topics such as the decolonisation of knowledge, oceanic history, and the idea of paracoloniality.