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So I promised to follow up this thread with 10 articles that changed my shifted my thinking in the last 10 ten years. This was a terrible idea b/c it's just too short of a list. [And, yes, I'm sticking to articles in English, although I'm happy to do other languages per request.]
In chronological order:
1.Patricia Crone's "The Religion of the Qur'ānic Pagans: God and the Lesser Deities," Arabica (2010) [and all its follow-ups put together in a single volume here: google.com/books/edition/…]
2. Stefan Heidemann, “The Evolving Representation of the Early Islamic Empire and Its Religion on Coin Imagery” The Qur’an in Context (2010) google.com/books/edition/…
3. Omar Hamdan, “The second Masāhif-Project. A Step towards the canonization of the Qur’anic Text,” ibid. (2010)
4. Shawkat Toorawa, “Q Raḥmān 55, Q Aʿlā 87, and Q Balad 90. Translations in Cadenced Rhyming English Prose,” Journal of Quranic Studies doi.org/10.3366/jqs.20…
[Like our friendship, this article radically transformed how I approach A>E translation, of the Qur'an in particular.]
5. Behnam Sadeghi and @MohsenGT's “Ṣan‘ā’ 1 and the Origins of the Qur’ān,” Der Islam (2012) doi.org/10.1515/islam-…
6. @krisrich's “Blue and Green Eyes in the Islamicate Middle Ages” Annales islamologiques (2014) journals.openedition.org/anisl/3051
7. Stephen Shoemaker, “‘The Reign of God Has Come’: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam,” Arabica (2014) doi.org/10.1163/157005….
8.Walid Saleh, “End of Hope: Sūras 10-15: Despair and a Way out of Mecca,” Qurʾānic Studies Today (2016) google.com/books/edition/…
9. I'm going to cheat again. A few years ago I encountered @Safaitic and @PhDniX work simultaneously & will never view Arabic and the Qur'an the same again, so here's two articles by them (though you should read everything!)
9a. @Safaitic's "The Arabic of the Islamic conquests: notes on phonology and morphology based on the Greek transcriptions from the first Islamic century" BSOAS (2017) doi.org/10.1017/S00419…
9b. @PhDniX "The Feminine Ending -at as a Diptote in the Qurʾānic Consonantal Text and Its Implications for Proto-Arabic and Proto-Semitic", Arabica (2017) doi.org/10.1163/157005…
10. Deborah Tor, "The Eclipse of Khurāsān in the twelfth century," BSOAS (2018) doi.org/10.1017/S00419…
The first article to really get me to think about how climatological research and historical research can intersect.
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