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     Reply #11100 - June 03, 2025, 07:33 PM
    Reddit AMA with Sean Anthony

    https://www.reddit.com/r/academicislam/comments/1l2h6bz/submit_your_questions_for_professor_sean_w_anthony/
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     Reply #11101 - June 08, 2025, 01:13 PM
    Holger Zellentin - Jesus’ Miracles in the Qur’an and in Toledot Yeshu

    https://www.academia.edu/129428911/_Jesus_Miracles_in_the_Qur_an_and_in_Toledot_Yeshu_in_Theology_of_Prophecy_in_Dialogue_A_Jewish_Christian_Muslim_Encounter_edited_by_Zishan_Ghaffar_and_Klaus_von_Stosch_Leiden_Brill_2025_21_55
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    In their agglomeration of miracles, these three manuscripts of Toledot Yeshu stand closer to the Qur’an than either the Infancy Gospel of Thomas or the tradition based on the Gospel of Matthew we have seen in the Clementine Homilies.

    The miracles described in the Qur’an therefore combine some motifs preserved in the Christian tradition with others found in the Toledot Yeshu tradition, maintaining, challenging, and reconfiguring aspects of both traditions according to its own prophetological paradigm. I would thus propose that a careful reconstruction of retrievable aspects of the late antique Toledot Yeshu tradition offers a challenging, yet essential method to understand what the Qur’an’s intended audience, and partially also its historical audience, had previously learned about Jesus. In addition to the reports about Jesus’ miracles (and his execution as discussed by Anthony), there are more than a few details of the Toledot Yeshu tradition that would explain how the Qur’an pursues a rectification not only of the Christian but also of the Jewish record. For example, it should be noted that alongside the Clementine Homilies, the Toledot Yeshu tradition is one of the few texts that emphasizes Jesus’ prophethood alongside his messianic status and his partial abrogation of the Torah, if only to deny these claims. Moreover, the depictions of Christians as noṣryn/noṣrym throughout the Toledot Yeshu tradition – and likely throughout the Jewish Middle East more broadly – would solve the long-standing puzzle of why the Qur’an’ would refer to Christians with an Arabic cognate of this term, naṣārā, rather than with any of the terms Christians themselves would have used.

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     Reply #11102 - June 08, 2025, 01:38 PM
    Mohsen Goudarzi - The Qur'an's Cultic Trinity: Marian Piety in Late Antiquity and the Qur'an

    https://www.academia.edu/122016752/The_Qurans_Cultic_Trinity_Marian_Piety_in_Late_Antiquity_and_the_Quran
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    However, the suggestion that Mary was divinized next to Christ is difficult to explain in the light of Christian doctrine. As far as we know, all Christian groups of Late Antiquity viewed the Holy Spirit, and not Mary, as the third person of the Trinity. Why, then, do the above-cited passages from the fifth surah claim that Mary was divinized? And why does no qur’anic text criticize the inclusion of the Holy Spirit within the Trinity?

    This study argues that answers to these questions may be found by attention to the realms of worship and liturgy rather than official theology. The Qur’an speaks of the divinization of Mary, and conversely makes no reference to that of the Holy Spirit, probably because it was referring primarily to the practical worship of its Christian interlocutors, not their abstract dogma. Many Christian communities of the Late Antique Near East endowed Mary with an elaborate cult and made her a central recipient of religious devotion, by constructing churches and monasteries in her honor, bringing offerings to these churches and monasteries, celebrating feast days to commemorate different moments of her life, performing the Eucharist on these feasts, making use of Marian icons, seeking her intercession, and believing in her miraculous protection—a complex of activities that could be seen as de facto divinization of Mary—while the Holy Spirit occupied a less prominent role in their practical, communal piety.

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     Reply #11103 - June 13, 2025, 06:51 AM
    Open access book

    Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter - Editors: Zishan Ghaffar and Klaus von Stosch

    https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/63710?contents=toc-130902
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    This volume examines the Rabbinic, Qur’anic and Christian understandings of prophecy from a historical and comparative theological perspective. The Rabbinic perspectives on the phenomenon of prophecy are analyzed in their historical continuity and engagement with the theological traditions of Islam and Christianity. The examination of female prophecy also occupies a central place here. Similarly, several contributors describe the deep roots of Qur’anic prophetology in the Christian and Jewish traditions of Late Antiquity and the Arabic context. Finally, the anthology attempts to reflect on these different theological traditions of prophecy in the Christian, Jewish, and Qur’anic traditions from a comparative theological perspective and to discuss the possible theological significance of this phenomenon in the modern age.

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     Reply #11104 - June 22, 2025, 03:34 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMPYIVhfDTE
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    In this interview I sit down with Dr. Ilkka Lindstedt of the University of Helsinki to discuss his recent work on Arabia at the time of Muhammad. Dr. Lindstedt walks us through the "on the ground" reality of Arabia based on the material, historical, and literary evidence. We discuss things like the advent of Christianity in Arabia, the presence of Judaism, the extent to which Arabia was or was not polytheistic, whether or not there were remnants of polytheism in Arabia, and what that means for the early Islamic movement.

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     Reply #11105 - July 02, 2025, 10:31 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISEciYpkeBA
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    In this episode of the Real Talk Podcast we welcome Dr. Emran El-Badawi to the channel to discuss his two groundbreaking books: Queens and Prophets—and the one we’ll be focusing on mostly—Female Divinity in the Quran.

    Join us as we travel back in time  to the ancient Near East to examine the political and spiritual authority women once held, and discover what was lost—or reimagined—when scriptural monotheism rose to prominence, overshadowing the sacred female deities that had a long history of worship in a Near Eastern context.

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     Reply #11106 - July 12, 2025, 04:57 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjiTlK81tCQ
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    Join us on MythVision as Dr. Ilkka Lindstedt shatters four of the most enduring myths about pre-Islamic Arabia. Using fresh epigraphic and archaeological evidence, he exposes the real picture behind (1) widespread idolatry, (2) the supposed pre-Islamic centrality of the Kaaba, (3) the narrative of female infanticide, and (4) the idea of constant tribal warfare. This myth-busting dive into ancient Arabian society will forever change how you view Islam’s origins.

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     Reply #11107 - August 03, 2025, 08:36 AM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUwqWwIw_3o
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    In this video Gabriel and Hassan give viewers an overview of the most controversial book ever written in Islamic Studies. Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by Michael Cook and Patricia Crone. They give an overview of the book's main arguments, why it is hated by many, the good things that came from the book, and offer insights into how Hagarism is thought of today.

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     Reply #11108 - August 13, 2025, 02:31 PM
    Michael Philip Penn on the earliest Christian writings that mention Muhammad and the Islamic conquests

    https://www.reddit.com/r/academicislam/comments/1moz90m/michael_philip_penn_on_the_earliest_christian/
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     Reply #11109 - August 13, 2025, 04:37 PM
    Abstract only - the article is behind a paywall

    Stephen Shoemaker - “You Pass By Them in the Morning and in the Night”: Lot, Laykah, and the Levantine Qur’an

    https://online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-abstract/9/3/339/212560/You-Pass-By-Them-in-the-Morning-and-in-the-Night
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    A sizeable amount of the Qur’an’s content does not seem compatible with its origins solely within the confines of Mecca and Medina during Muhammad’s lifetime, as the Islamic tradition and much modern scholarship would have us believe. Despite the unwarranted confidence often invested in this traditional narrative, which has rarely been questioned, many of the Qur’an’s traditions are simply not compatible with their presumed provenance in the central Hijaz during the early seventh century. To the contrary, significant portions of the Qur’an, including especially most of its “Christian” content, only make historical sense when understood as emerging within a context somewhere far to the north, in the Levant. To this mounting dossier of traditions, we add in this article the Qur’an’s traditions about Lot and its so-called Straflegenden, a recurring cycle of Punishment Stories set in the Nabataean lands, particularly in the region of Midian. For instance, in its remembrance of Lot, the Qur’an more than once reminds its audience that they live near the remains of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, whose location on the southeastern shores of the Dead Sea near the pilgrimage shrine of Lot’s cave was well-known in Late Antiquity. Likewise, the Qur’an’s Punishment Stories, with which its memories of Lot are intertwined, focus narrowly on other important locations within the ancient Nabataean realm, which also are said to be near the Qur’an’s audience. In these elements of the Qur’an, we meet further evidence that significant portions of the Qur’an appear to take their origins separately from Muhammad, Mecca, and Medina.


    https://xcancel.com/shahanSean/status/1955102848846381170#m
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     Reply #11110 - August 14, 2025, 07:54 PM
    Stephen Shoemaker - Method and Theory in the Study of Early Islam

    https://www.academia.edu/106119010/Method_and_Theory_in_the_Study_of_Islamic_Origins
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    Even as Islamic studies has begun to move more fully into Religious Studies, problems with method and theory remain, especially with respect to earliest Islam. Formative Islam still has yet to be investigated using the well-established historical-critical approaches deployed – with much success – in the study of early Christianity and Judaism. Thus Wansbrough’s observation to this effect over thirty years ago still rings true today: “As a document susceptible of analysis by the instruments and techniques of Biblical criticism, [the Qur’ān] is virtually unknown.” To be sure, the Qur’ān is a very peculiar sort of text, seemingly a kind of late antique religious miscellany, and likewise our sources are much more plentiful and diverse for the emergence of Christianity, for instance. Nevertheless, the fact remains that very little work has been done to date that would qualify as serious historical-critical study of the Qur’ān. Instead, scholars have largely preferred to concentrate on the received Islamic interpretation of the Qur’ān according to the various early tafsīrs, or to read the Qur’ān in tandem with the early biographies of Muhammad, the sīra tradition, in order to reconstruct the history of Muhammad’s prophetic activities in Medina and Mecca.

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     Reply #11111 - August 25, 2025, 06:42 AM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKbPCpwkBF0
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    In this episode of the Real Talk Podcast, Terron and Roxanna sit down with Dr. Ilkka Lindstedt to discuss his article “The Qurʾān and the Putative Pre-Islamic Practice of Female Infanticide.”

    The Qurʾān criticizes the practice of burying infant daughters alive, but how much historical evidence do we actually have that this was widespread in pre-Islamic Arabia? Was this a lived social reality, or part of a broader Late Antique moral narrative?

    Dr. Lindstedt walks us through the Qurʾānic verses, early Arabic poetry, and later Islamic-era sources, questioning the traditional interpretation of waʾd al-banāt (female infanticide). We also explore how this narrative fits into Jewish and Christian discourses on infanticide, how classical exegetes shaped its meaning, and what this reveals about the construction of Arabia’s pre-Islamic past.

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     Reply #11112 - September 04, 2025, 09:28 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeaQIRg24xI
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    Derek is launching a new series unpacking the *myths, legends, and folktales* woven into the Qur’an—showing how many stories reflect the *Late Antique storytelling world* rather than a verbatim dictation from an angel. We’ll trace parallels to Jewish midrash, Christian apocrypha, and regional folklore: the *People of the Cave**, **Dhul-Qarnayn* (Alexander romance), **Harut & Marut**, **Solomon and the jinn**, **Mary under the palm**, and **Jesus speaking as an infant/clay birds**. Clear, evidence-based, and respectful—no polemics, just sources and context...

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     Reply #11113 - September 06, 2025, 07:17 AM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgqbXO4e-o
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    In this video I introduce you to my new book: Christianity and the Qur'an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia. Challenging the dominant narrative about the history of the Qur’an and the emergence of Islam in a predominantly pagan context, I present the Qur’an as a text born within a largely Christian culture. The book examines the ways the Qur’an engages with Christian traditions—not only those of the New Testament but also those of late antique Christian literature—and with Christians themselves, I also draw on recent scholarship on pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions suggesting that monotheism, Christianity in particular, was a significant presence in the pre-Islamic Hijaz, the region in which Muhammad preached.
     
    This study re-situates the Qur’an as a text thoroughly concerned with Christianity, not just in the longer narratives of individuals such as Mary and Jesus but also passages that do not mention Christians explicitly. The Qur’an’s stance toward Christianity is on occasion controversial, aiming to advance Islamic theology and undermine Christian apologetical arguments, yet the Qur’an is not always polemical. At times, the text makes use of the audience’s knowledge of the Bible to advance its own vision of God and God’s relationship with humanity.


    https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Quran-Islam-Christian-Arabia/dp/0300281757

    https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300281750/christianity-and-the-quran/
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     Reply #11114 - September 12, 2025, 10:09 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPBTKrjLHk
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     Reply #11115 - October 04, 2025, 07:41 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8YMDTBMio
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    In this video Hassan and I discuss the first Hijra to Ethiopia relayed to us in early biographies of Muhammad and later Muslim tradition. We discuss the story itself, whether it is historical or not, and the importance of this story for subsequent discourse between Christians and Muslims.

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     Reply #11116 - October 05, 2025, 07:55 AM
    Podcast: Fred Donner on the history of early Islam

    https://shwep.net/podcast/fred-donner-on-the-history-of-early-islam/
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    In this interview, Professor Fred Donner gives us a superb introduction to the earliest decades of the movement which would become known as Islam.

    We begin our discussion with the sīra literature, what it is (a body of written accounts of the life and times of the prophet Muḥammad, starting from a century or so after his death and continuing thereafter) and how reliable it is as historical documentation (not very – that ever-elusive grain of truth has got to be in there, but it’s finding exactly where it is that’s the problem). We then ask similar questions of the Qur’ān, and get a more positive answer; for Donner, the Qur’ān is a genuinely-early document, although there are open questions as to how long a period of development it underwent, what exactly happened when ‘Uthman decided to standardize the ‘text’, and a host of other matters. Nevertheless, this is one place to look for solid evidence of what the early Believers were believing. The other place to look is a fascinating text known as the ‘Constitution of Medinah’ or ‘Umma Document’, a treaty, preserved in multiple, slightly-different forms among the sīra and other works, between Muḥammad, his followers, and the various groups present at Yathrib, better known as Medina. This work really is a window onto the earliest political manifestation of the Believers’ movement. We then turn to the first few decades of the ‘Islamic’ or ‘Arab conquests’ (neither term seems to be quite right), discussing the weird silence in our sources about what went on, precisely, and how we can interpret around these sources.

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     Reply #11117 - October 15, 2025, 10:20 AM
    Podcast: Khododad Rezakhani on the rise of Islam

    https://shows.acast.com/the-ancients/episodes/rise-of-islam
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    In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Khododad Rezakhani to explore the emergence of Islam from the ashes of Rome and Persia’s great struggle for supremacy. Together they discover how the early Islamic polity took shape, why the Arab conquests were so swift and decisive, and how they reshaped the politics, culture, and religion of West Asia. From the fall of the Sasanians to the dawn of a new empire, this is the story of how Islam rose to dominate the world of late antiquity.

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     Reply #11118 - October 23, 2025, 06:54 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istW5tYv_2o Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam! | Dr. Sean W. Anthony
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     Reply #11119 - November 11, 2025, 06:11 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQJWFVYeu8
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    Ana Davitashvili is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on literary aspects of the Qurʾan, methodological approaches to the study of Muslim traditions, and the comparative study of pre-Islamic Syriac Christianity, the Qurʾan, early hadith and Isrāʾīlīyāt. Her monograph, Von den Huris zu den gläubigen Frauen im Paradies: Ein Beitrag zur Untersuchung des frühislamischen Frauenbildes (Brill/Schöningh, 2024), based on her doctoral dissertation, explores the depictions of the ḥūr ʿīn and believing women in the Qurʾanic paradise, pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and early Islamic exegesis. Other recent and forthcoming publications include “The Inner-Qurʾānic Development of the Images of Women in Paradise: From the ḥūr ʿīn to Believing Women,” Journal of the International Qurʾanic Studies Association 7 (2022) and “Sealing and the Root kh-t-m in the Qurʾan and pre-Islamic Christian Literature: On the ʿSeal of the Prophetsʾ and Disbelievers Having ʿSeals on Their Hearts and Hearingʾ,” Der Islam 2 (2025) (forthcoming). Davitashvili has recently edited the collected volume The Qurʾan and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs (forthcoming with Brill, in its series Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān).

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     Reply #11120 - November 11, 2025, 09:10 PM
    Islamic origins, and a career between tradition and revision | Prof. Sean Anthony
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkybqiiRLg8
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    This is a conversation with Professor Sean Anthony of the Ohio State University, one of the world's leading historians of late antiquity and early Islam. He discusses his scholarly journey and the difference between studying history in the secular academy versus in a religious seminary context.

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     Reply #11121 - November 13, 2025, 11:51 AM
    The Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts, edited by Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver, and Tommaso Tesei

    https://almuslih.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mortensen-The-Study-of-Islamic-Origins.pdf

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     Reply #11122 - November 13, 2025, 12:34 PM
    From that volume

    Gilles Courtieu and Carlos A. Segovia - Q 2:102, 43:31, and Ctesiphon-Seleucia New Insights into the Mesopotamian Setting of the Earliest Qur’anic Milieu
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    In conclusion, the study of the Qur’ān’s material culture’s additionally supports the idea of a Mesopotamian background for Q 43:2–45, and thereby too the hypothesis that the setting of the earliest Qur’anic milieu must be searched for in the environments of Ctesiphon-Seleucia, the administrative capital of the Sassanian empire.

    Is it possible that Q 43:2–45, while being about Ctesiphon, was, however, written elsewhere, somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula, maybe even Mecca? It is not impossible, of course. But why keep a non-Mesopotamian setting at whatever price – the passage’s vivid fascination with Ctesiphon’s richness, the close comparison of the Qur’anic prophet with a man from Ctesiphon? Must one not be sensitive to the warm blood running through the aforementioned examined verses. Besides, what could require such caution – a sense of conformity, despite all, to the grand narrative of Islam’s origins, a sense of scholarly custom or habit? It would be easy to evoke, say, Muhammad’s informants – like in the early days of the study of the Qur’ān. We have opted to follow a different path. From the infinite combinatory options one could venture apropos the interpretation of the passage in question, we have set forth a possible combination: the one we feel to be more methodologically sound and historically plausible; the one that proves more fascinating.

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     Reply #11123 - November 13, 2025, 12:52 PM
    Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories, edited by Carlos Segovia

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Remapping-Emergent-Islam-Ideological-Trajectories/dp/9462988064
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    This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study Islam's beginnings - taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. The intersections of these domains need to be examined afresh in order to obtain a clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that collectively enabled both the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and also the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries.

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    1. Introduction - Carlos A. Segovia,Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background, 2. South Arabian Judaism, Himyarite Rahmanism, and the Origins of Islam - Aaron W. Hughes, 3. The Absence of the Messiah in the Qur'an and the Evidence of Jewish Eschatology - José Costa,An Encrypted Manichaean/Messalian Matrix?, 4. The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Redemption, The Solar Salvation: Manichaean Cosmic Soteriology in the Qur'an's Archaic Surahs (Q 84, Q 75, Q 54) - Daniel Beck, 5. Binitarianism, Messalianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Early Quranic Milieu - Carlos A. Segovia, Measuring the World's Timeline= and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?, 6. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Original Islamic Calendar - Basil Lourié, 7. The Persian Keys to Quranic Paradise - Gilles Courtieu,Conceptual Quicksands, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts, and their Marginalia, 8. Extremist Shi'ism and Muhammad's Alleged Message - Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, 9. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'an - Tommaso Tesei, 10. What Do We Mean by the Qur'an? On Palimpsests, Collections, and Inter-Narrative Identity - Emilio González Ferrín|Multidisciplinarity, innovative and theoretically sophisticated scholarship. Challenges the more conservative strands of scholarship within the historiography Situates the rise of Islam within the world of Late Antiquity.


    Read Carlos Segovia's introduction: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Remapping-Emergent-Islam-Ideological-Trajectories/dp/9462988064?asin=9462988064&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
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     Reply #11124 - November 13, 2025, 04:00 PM
    Carlos Segovia - Reimagining the Early Quranic Milieu

    https://almuslih.org/wp-content/uploads/Library/Segovia%2C%20C%20-%20Reimagining_the_Early_Quranic_Milieu.pdf
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    But is there any verse in the Qur’ān that may help us to place the early quranic community in Sasanian Iraq, where Messalianism was widespread, Manichaeism had – so to speak – its headquarters, and it is reported that several Arab-Bedouin groups linked to the Ḥiǧāz in the Arabian Peninsula regularly camped – especially in the surroundings of al-Ḥīra, the capital of the Nasrid kingdom, near present-day Naǧaf (Toral-Niehoff 2010; 2013; Fisher and Wood 2016), which in my view represents too the most plausible geographic setting for the early quranic community on either the eve or the wake of the Byzantine-Persian war of the 7th century?

    I do think so. I am currently working, in collaboration with Gilles Courtieu (Courtieu and Segovia forthcoming 2019), on the possible background of Q 43:2-45, a passage with Messalian overtones, as I have already suggested, and whose enigmatic allusion to the “two cities” in the dual form (اﻟــــﻘـﺮﯾــــﺘـﯿـﻦ al-qaryatayn, v. 31) we interpret as a reference to Ctesiphon-Seleucia, the Sasanian capital – which was relatively close to al-Ḥīra. If our hypothesis is correct, moreover, this is the only occurrence in the Qur’ān where the community behind the quranic prophet is alluded in the context of prophetical polemics and theological counter-discourse – Ḥirā’ (with a slightly different spelling, therefore) being also the name of the cave near Mecca where the Islamic tradition has Muḥammad receiving his very first revelations. But I shall not reveal anything else on this puzzling matter for now…

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     Reply #11125 - Today at 12:55 PM
    Early quranic inscription from Mecca

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1ow1iz1/what_is_the_translation_of_this_rock_inscription/
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    This is basically Q38:26

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    "Uthman b. Wahran wrote it in the year 80." [...] There are three well-known inscriptions all done by the same guy, all citing the Quran in a not-quite canonical form. [...] I think these are genuine inscriptions and among some of the earliest Quranic passages encountered outside of the Mushaf. [...] I don't think any of the variants that he has in his inscriptions are known from literary sources, though they are typogically quite similar to some companion variants.

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     Reply #11126 - Today at 01:08 PM
    Marcus Wilwright - The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions

    https://almuslih.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Milwright-M-–-The-Dome-of-the-Rock-.pdf

    Page 154 has photos of two of the Uthman b. Wahran inscriptions, described as being from "near Mecca".
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