The Words of Jesus and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Qur’an Ghaffar, Zishan Qur’an John 20:17 Scriptural hermeneutics Words of Jesus Intertextuality ddc:200 This article examines the most frequently attributed statement of Jesus in the Qur’an, namely, ‘God is my Lord and your Lord’ (Q 19:36; Q 43:64; Q 3:51; Q 5:72; Q 5:117). It investigates the extent to which this formula is connected to Jesus’s words to Mary Magdalene on Easter morning in John 20:17. The analysis aims to show that the Qur’an critically engages with the Christian interpretive tradition surrounding this statement as recorded in John’s Gospel and adapts it – both contextually and verbally – within its own theological framework. As in the Christian tradition, this Qur’anic engagement also generates a broader discourse on the hermeneutics of scriptural interpretation. Routledge 2026 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/66707 Ghaffar Z. The Words of Jesus and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Qur’an. <i>Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations</i>. Published online 2026:1-17. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0959-6410 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1469-9311 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess