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Is there a relationship between the common-link and madārs? A thread 🧵

The fastest debate in history😆 Fakhr al-Din al-Razi entered one of the mosques of Samarkand to pray. There, he found the mosque’s shaykh explaining his books incorrectly. When al-Rāzī corrected him, the shaykh became upset and agitated, and demanded a debate in front of-

@MayShaddel On the topic of Q30, do you have any thoughts on Ehsans Roohis recent attempt to revive the apocalyptic reading originally by Tesei of Q30? This is the link to the paper: academia.edu/165241226/The_…

the land in Q 30:2-6 is short for the Holy Land (cf. Q 21:105) & its nearer part (adnā) Palaestina III/Salutaris. That's where Roman allies defeated (ghalabat) Muslims at Muʾta. What follows is more of a promise than a prophecy: that they'll in turn be defeated (ghulibat) soon.

All attempts to read a Byzantine prophecy in Q 30:2-6 are flimsy & untenable, to put it extremely politely. One can't postulate intertextuality between two texts merely on the basis of a victory-defeat parallelism, which happens all the time, everywhere. My opinion:

To learn Arabic yourself, start with: 1. Arabiya Bayna Yadayk 1 2. Madinah Arabic 1 3. Arabiya Bayna Yadayk 2 4. Madinah Arabic 2 5. Madinah Arabic 3 6. Arabiya Bayna Yadayk 3 7. Madinah Arabic 4 8. Arabiya Bayna Yadayk 4 If I had to start again, I'd follow this accordingly.

@dmontetheno1 Especially when innocent research is turned into Anti-Islamic apologetics and vice versa.

@dmontetheno1 I think it has to do with the fact that much of the "doubts" muslims face today are related to Western Academia, because of the lack of such interactions from the traditional side, people quickly fall into confusion and despair.

This is indeed a serious crisis, and it’s even worse to see it take shape irl within our communities. We need to do better at engaging with youth intellectually and socially and inviting them to the masjid! It requires sincere effort and creativity!

@ha_elyon We will add it!

@UniversalS314 a readme.md would be very helpful to let users know what it does and how it can be used

We made a website that allows you to add each narattor with its Matn, detected and colour codes any changes, and creates a spider chain: github.com/AcademicCresce… academiccrescent-spec.github.io/Isnad-builder-/

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Eid Mubarak!

@ThisIsTheNaiad This is the best tweet that I saw today

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A good thread on tilliers work as well as some of his recent discoveries.

🧵 THREAD: What do rock inscriptions tell us about the authenticity of ḥadīth? islamiclaw.blog/author/mathieu…

Some Western Qur’an scholars argue the Qur’an assumes the ruins of Noah’s Ark survived in Arabia. I don’t find that plausible. The argument often hinges on “ها” in Q 29:15, but in Arabic a pronoun can refer to an entire event or story, not exclusively a physical object.

A good blog post by him and a paper by him as well (french): shs.hal.science/halshs-0328656… And: islamiclaw.blog/author/mathieu…

A bit suprised nobody is talking about Mathieu Tillier work on the relashionship between epigraphy and the Hadith, he says that there seems to be a large amount of material in the corpus that has parallels to epigraphy even from the 1st century!

@dmontetheno1 Ibn Masud or Uthman or Ali or maybe all of them 😂

If you could sit down for a conversation and a cup of chai with any companion of the Prophet ﷺ, who would it be and why?

🧵Many people who take interest in Western academic discussions about Syriac and the Qur’an remain unaware that the subject already long existed within Islamic intellectual history. Classical scholars explored Syriac intertextuality in many different ways. (1/25)

Al-Jallad's critiques are fair and I share them but I'd say most of Dost's intervention survives them. That is, what Dost says about Sabaic and Ethiopic contexts is true; likewise his destruction of the Syriacizing revisionists and of geographic revisionism is sound. The only site of criticism is that he goes too far in detaching the Middle Hijaz from the north

@jricole @chonkshonk1 Any thoughts on Dost’s monograph regarding the "Idols of Arabia" and to what extent does it shift our understanding of Arabian polytheism when viewed alongside Lindstedt’s findings?

Lets talk a closer look at Al-Jallad's new paper just released yesterday, "Excavating the Quran", to better understand where Al-Jallad agrees and disagrees with Suleyman Dost's new book, Before the Quran.