Bellamy has been an important scholar in the
textual criticism of the
Quran, even being described as the "doyen" of its
emendation, and one of the few to practice emendation since
Ignác Goldziher and
Theodor Nöldeke. In a series of articles from 1973 to 2002 in the
Journal of the American Oriental Society, Bellamy proposed a number of conjectural emendations to the standard text of the Quran. Bellamy described textual criticism as like an "addiction" to him. He gave a succinct description of his job as "the correction of errors in texts." Bellamy's approach makes him a representative of the
Revisionist School of Islamic Studies. ==Select publications==