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Reply #1440 - April 15, 2017, 04:40 PM

That's right ... Sinai often uses similar language, but he is much more theoretically sophisticated than some of his colleagues in the conservative 'German' school.

Actually I am not at all sure that the Medinan surahs weren't composed in Medina. It is plausible. The question is more when, by whom, and from what, for what purposes.

It is the Meccan terminology that is much more problematic in its implications.
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Reply #1441 - April 17, 2017, 10:26 AM

Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/iandavidmorris/status/853857760819195904
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Someone on a Facebook group points out that Qur’an 18:23–4 echoes James 4:13–5, but it hasn’t attracted much notice.

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Reply #1442 - April 19, 2017, 11:35 PM

New book

Shahab Ahmed - Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674047426
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One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today—of all sects—deny that the incident of the Satanic verses took place. But as Shahab Ahmed explains, Muslims did not always hold this view.

Before Orthodoxy wrestles with the question of how religions establish truth—especially religions such as Islam that lack a centralized authority to codify beliefs. Taking the now universally rejected incident of the Satanic verses as a case study in the formation of Islamic orthodoxy, Ahmed shows that early Muslims, circa 632 to 800 CE, held the exact opposite belief. For them, the Satanic verses were an established fact in the history of the Prophet. Ahmed offers a detailed account of the attitudes of Muslims to the Satanic verses in the first two centuries of Islam and traces the chains of transmission in the historical reports known as riwāyah.

Touching directly on the nature of Muhammad’s prophetic visions, the interpretation of the Satanic verses incident is a question of profound importance in Islam, one that plays a role in defining the limits of what Muslims may legitimately say and do—issues crucial to understanding the contemporary Islamic world.

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Reply #1443 - April 20, 2017, 05:59 PM

Aaron Hughes - The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon

https://www.academia.edu/8963453/the_Formative_Period_of_Islam_and_the_Documentary_Approach_A_Prolegomenon

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Reply #1444 - April 21, 2017, 10:53 PM

Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/iandavidmorris/status/855436118044659712
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Yesterday @DerMenschensohn brought up a Samaritan source whose mention of Mecca was discussed in a brilliant but flawed book, ‘Hagarism’.

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Reply #1445 - April 30, 2017, 10:08 PM

Marijn van Putten - The development of the triphthongs in Quranic and Classical Arabic

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/47177/AEN_3.4final.pdf?sequence=3

Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/phoenixnl/status/858770320274194432

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Reply #1446 - May 01, 2017, 12:38 AM

From van Putten:
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... the وه and يه in words like صلوه’ prayer’ and تقيه’ precaution’ point to /ōh/ and /ēh/ respectively.

Implication for Middle Persian studies: where we see the ويه- ending in names like "Shirawayh", "Mardawayh", "Sibawayh" perhaps we should be transcribing it -ōë.
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Reply #1447 - May 01, 2017, 07:19 PM

Interesting lecture from T. Holland, also on Mecca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQh2nk8ih4
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Reply #1448 - May 13, 2017, 02:34 PM

Tom Holland take care to say (as if it was not granted by his discourse) that Muhammad has existed whereas his discourse show in a way that "islam" did not need him to emerge.
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Reply #1449 - May 24, 2017, 04:21 PM

Gabriel Said Reynolds - Biblical Background to the Qur'an

https://www.academia.edu/33156481/_Biblical_Background_to_the_Quran_Wiley-Blackwell_Handbook_of_the_Qurʾān_Oxford_Blackwell_2017_303-19

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Reply #1450 - May 27, 2017, 09:50 PM

Averil Cameron - Patristic Studies and the Emergence of Islam

https://www.academia.edu/14924957/Patristic_studies_and_the_emergence_of_Islam
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cYIGNXHlxE

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Reply #1451 - May 28, 2017, 10:30 PM

Gerald Hawting - "A Plaything for Kings" A'isha's Hadith, Ibn al-Zubayr and Rebuilding the Ka'ba

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LtzzDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Reply #1452 - June 11, 2017, 09:24 PM

8th Nangeroni meeting starts tomorrow - 'new perspectives and contexts in the study of Islamic origins'

http://www.4enoch.org/wiki4/index.php?title=New_Perspectives_and_Contexts_in_the_Study_of_Islamic_Origins_/_8th_Nangeroni_Meeting_(2017_Florence),_conference

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Reply #1453 - June 13, 2017, 06:32 PM

8th Nangeroni meeting starts tomorrow - 'new perspectives and contexts in the study of Islamic origins' : The paper (draft) of Guillaume Dye is available : https://www.academia.edu/33138609/Mapping_the_Sources_of_the_Quranic_Jesus
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Reply #1454 - June 15, 2017, 06:48 AM

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In response to an email, asking about the idea that ‘Muhammad’ is an epithet for Jesus.

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Reply #1455 - June 15, 2017, 06:57 AM

Marijn van Putten - The *ʔ in the Quranic Consonantal Text

https://www.academia.edu/33433562/The_ʔ_in_the_Quranic_Consonantal_Text_-_Presented_at_NACAL45_9-11_June_2017_Leiden_

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Reply #1456 - June 15, 2017, 07:03 AM

Marijn van Putten and Phillip Stokes - Case in the Quranic Consonantal Text

https://www.academia.edu/31416066/M._Van_Putten_and_P.W._Stokes_-_Case_in_the_Quranic_Consonantal_Text

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Reply #1457 - June 15, 2017, 05:25 PM

Ahmad Al-Jallad - The Arabic of the Islamic Conquests: Notes on Phonology and Morphology based on the Greek Transcriptions from the First Islamic Century

https://www.academia.edu/24938389/The_Arabic_of_the_Islamic_Conquests_Notes_on_Phonology_and_Morphology_based_on_the_Greek_Transcriptions_from_the_First_Islamic_Century_draft_submitted_for_review_

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Reply #1458 - June 15, 2017, 05:46 PM

Ahmad Al-Jallad - The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification

https://www.academia.edu/18470301/Al-Jallad._The_earliest_stages_of_Arabic_and_its_linguistic_classification_Routledge_Handbook_of_Arabic_Linguistics_forthcoming_

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Reply #1459 - June 15, 2017, 11:41 PM

From Ian Morris' twitter
Quote from: Marijn van Putten @phoenixnl
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M7md exists. No sign of either m7mdh or m7mdtm.

In Syriac (and later Hebrew), which is where the best first-century evidence is, the begadkepat aspiration rules kick in. So if you read "m7md" (i.e. mḥmd) you must pronounce it m-ḥ-m-dh. Ian Morris himself has alluded to this, to explain why Syrians may have had to transliterate Arabic mḥmd into mḥmṭ.

So every Syriac spelling of m7md is, in fact, a spelling of m7mdh - albeit perhaps against the author's will.

This is why I am not fond of Twitter - personally. I have a hard enough time not screwing up in here. Twitter makes it too easy to screw up.

ADDENDUM 11 PM MST - unless she means m-ḥ-m-d-h? again, Twitter makes it hard to go back and say "oh wait, I need to clarify -".
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Reply #1460 - June 16, 2017, 04:57 PM

Nangaroni bombshell?

Zuhayr inscription seems to be fake... No difference in patina of so called ancient Zuhayr inscription http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/kuficsaud.html
and the 3 additional lines seen in fig.2 of http://www.academia.edu/3576977/The_Inscription_of_Zuhayr_the_oldest_Islamic_Inscription_AH_24_AD_644_ now proven to be modern.

Does anyone know how to post pictures directly? Would make it more clear...
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Reply #1461 - June 16, 2017, 10:39 PM

Graffiti are easy to forge, since they're on a rock surface above ground, so not bound to a layer of sediment. I am surprised that there are not more of these.
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Reply #1462 - June 17, 2017, 04:41 AM

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Reply #1463 - June 17, 2017, 02:32 PM

Quote from: mundi on June 17, 2017, 04:41 AM
Knowing that the famous Zuhayr inscriptions are most probably at least ~~partially~~ fake, .............................

that sounds better mundi.... fake.....total fake....

Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything
I renounced my faith to become a kafir,
the beloved betrayed me and turned in to a Muslim
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Reply #1464 - June 18, 2017, 01:03 AM

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Reply #1465 - June 28, 2017, 06:22 PM

Gabriel Said Reynolds - Noah's Lost Son in the Qurʾān

https://www.academia.edu/33670324/Noahs_Lost_Son_in_the_Qurʾān
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In Kor 11 (Hūd), 42-47 the Qurʾān has Noah address one of his sons and plead with him to enter the ark. Noah’s son refuses to do so, explaining that he plans to seek refuge from the flood on a mountain. When the son is lost in the flood, Noah turns to God in order to ask that his son be forgiven. In the present article, I discuss the relationship of this Qurʾānic episode with larger themes in the Qurʾān—seen also in the material on Abraham and his father—regarding the believer’s proper disposition towards unbelievers, and unbelieving family members in particular. After a study of earlier theories about this passage, I propose that the account of Noah’s lost son (not found in the Bible) has a particular relationship to Ezekiel 14, a passage which speaks hypothetically of an unrighteous son of Noah. In conclusion, I argue that this passage is an important example of how the Qurʾān applies, and transforms, earlier traditions in order to advance its particular religious arguments.

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Reply #1466 - June 28, 2017, 06:29 PM

Quote from: mundi on June 16, 2017, 04:57 PM
Nangaroni bombshell? Zuhayr inscription seems to be fake...

I suppose one question here is whether this is accepted by other scholars or if it's just one person's argument. Is there discussion of the claim anywhere?

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Reply #1467 - June 30, 2017, 11:29 PM

Forthcoming book

Asma Hilali - The Sanaa Palimpsest The Transmission of the Qur'an in the First Centuries AH

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-sanaa-palimpsest-9780198793793
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This volume provides a new annotated edition of the two layers of the 'Sanaa palimpsest', one of the oldest Qur'an manuscripts yet discovered, together with a critical introduction that offers new hypotheses concerning the transmission of the Qur'an during the first centuries of Islam. The palimpsest contains two superimposed Qur'anic texts within two layers of writing, on thirty-eight leaves of parchment collectively numbered MS 01-27.1 in the Dar al-Makhtutat (lit. 'the House of Manuscripts') in Sanaa, Yemen. The palimpsest's lower text, which has been dated to the first century of Islam (seventh century CE), was subsequently erased and the parchment was later reused for writing another Qur'anic text, which remains visible in natural light. This upper text is thought to date from the second century of Islam (eighth century CE). The two layers were imaged in 2007 by a French-Italian mission.

Both Qur'anic texts are fragmented and present aspects of work in progress. In its lower layer, the manuscript offers the oldest witness of a reading instruction in a Qur'an text and perhaps even in any Arabic text. Such peculiarities offer rare evidence as to how the Qur'an was transmitted, taught and written down in the first centuries of Islam. In this book, Asma Hilali presents an annotated edition of the texts, together with a critical introduction. These contextualise the volume within the field of Qur'an manuscript studies, and engage with the historical and institutional contexts of transmission of the Qur'anic passages. The volume also makes systematic reference to previous studies and partial editions of the same manuscript.

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Reply #1468 - July 01, 2017, 09:07 PM

Ursula Lindsey reviews Hela Ouardi's Les Derniers Jours de Mohamed: Enquete sur la mort mysterieuse du Prophete

http://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2016/06/a-new-perspective-on-the-last-days-of-the-prophet/

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Reply #1469 - July 03, 2017, 11:26 PM

IQSA 2017 international meeting, Carthage

https://iqsaweb.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/program-book-final-digital-read.pdf

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