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Sean W. Anthony
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My next book, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, coming out April 2020
ucpress.edu/book/978052034…
See also my earlier books: *The Expeditions*, published in 2015, which is my annotated translation of the Kitāb al-maghāzī by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid (d. 770 C.E.), one of the earliest works on the life of the Prophet Muhammad
libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/97814798…
And my short monograph: *Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle: Umayyad Crucifixion in Its Late Antique Context*, published in 2014
eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/9…
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I’ve been enjoying reading Kenneth Wolf’s new translation of the corpus of Eulogius (d. 859), the notorious leader of the Córdorban Martyrs, beheaded for blasphemy under the Umayyads of Spain. Full of fiery polemic, he often notes Muslim beliefs. Commenting on the Virgin Mary ...
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Sean W. Anthony
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One of the greatest poets of pre-modern Arabic literary canon is al-Mutannabī (d. 965 CE). He has quite a curious name: “al-Mutanabbī” means “the would-be prophet”. Why would he have a name such as this? Here’s a brief account …
His actual name was Abū l-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, and he was born in southern Iraqi city of Kūfah in 915. Later in life he was said to be quite coy about the origin of his famous epithet “al-Mutanabbī”.
Another famous belletrist and friend, al-Tanūkhī (d. 994), asked him about it when he met him in Ahwāz in 965, shortly before al-Mutannabī’s death. “That was from my youth; a certain childishness brought it about (كان في الحداثة أوجبته صبوة),” he replied.
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Sean W. Anthony
@shahanSean
The structure of Sūrah al-ʿAṣr (Q. 100) has often struck me as lopsided because of the lengthy third verse, which even seems to undermine what precedes it. There's interesting evidence that suggest that it was truncated and emended ...
First the textus receptus:
[1] By the declining day,
[2] humanity is in loss
[3] except for those who believe, do good works, and urge one another to pursue truth and to endure.
[1] wa-l-ʿaṣr
[2] inna ’l-ʾinsāna la-fī ḫusr
[3] ʾillā ’llaḏīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ’l-ṣāliḥāti wa-tawāṣaw bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-tawāṣaw bi-l-ṣabr
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