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Jan 21, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Some instances citations of Q. 112 from the Umayyad period below ...
P.Berol. 12825 (CPR III, no. 43), ca. 705-708
P. Br. Mus. 1515 (1) (CPR III, no. 35), 88ah/706+ad
P.Cair. Bibl. Ked. (CPR III 38), 708-9ad
P.Cair. Bibl. Ked. (CPR III 67), 709-10ad
PER Inv. Ar. P. 3976 (CPR III 65) 716-711 ad
PER Inv. Ar. P. 4004 (CPR III 73), undated
google.com/books/edition/…
Reform coinage of 'Abd al-Malik minted 77ah/696ad
jstor.org/stable/25769690

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Jun 5
In Q Ḥašr 59:23, God is called: al-muʾmin al-muhaymin. The first name, muʾmin|مؤمن, usually means “believer” but in this context probably means, “faithful,” or “granter of safety (ʾamn).” But what about the second term, al-Muhaymin? https://corpuscoranicum.de/en/manuscripts/32/page/56v?sura=59&verse=23
If you've studied Aramaic, the answer seems pretty straightforwoard: al-muhaymin is easily recognizeable as mhaymen|ܡܗܰܝܡܶܢ|מהימן.
It means the exact same thing as al-muʾmin, i.e., “believer” or “faithful”. https://www.dukhrana.com/lexicon/RPayneSmith/page.php?p=232
Theodore Nöldeke (1836-1930) noted the Aramaic background to al-Muhaymin, but surprisingly he did not find the word to be suitable adjective for the divinity, saying "there is not meaning in Aramaic which may be applied to God." https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.286210/page/27/mode/1up?view=theater
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Mar 12
This is not the original quote of Hitler AFAIK, but the original does have an interesting history behind , and it's key for understanding the Battle of Poitiers in modern Western historical imaginary ...
Hitler’s "Tabletalk" (Tischgespräche) – ranting monologues given at the Führer headquarters from 1941-44 – were recorded and transcribed, and this is the source of such statements. In a monologue from 28 Aug 1942, he bemoans Charles Martel’s victory at Poitiers in 732 and ... Image
Chrisianity's hold over Europe. He then fantasizes about how Islam would have enabled the German race to conquer and subjugate the world. The English translation by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens of 1953 appeared long before the German edition, ed. by W. Jochmann in 1980. Image
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Dec 21, 2024
As noted by @IraniRoxanna, Khamenei is quoting one of the more misogynist passages from Nahj al-balāġah here, in Arabic: al-marʾah rayḥānah wa-laysat bi-qahramānah.
Personally, I don’t think ʿAlī actually uttered these words...
Why?
[1] It's strange forʿAlī to employ a word like qahramānah, a word borrowed into Arabic from Persian typically used in the Abbasid era to referred to an enslaved stewardess of a harem.
[2] The saying is attributed to other, later figures:
The one worth considering most seriously is Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, one of the fathers of Arabic literary prose. He’s a key figure for the transmission of Persian and Indian gnomologia into Arabic literature. See the excerpt from Ibn Qutaybah’s ʿUyūn al-aḫbār below.https://archive.org/details/UyoonAkhbar/%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-03/page/n271/mode/1up
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Dec 10, 2024
Reading a new essay by Devin Stewart, "Ignoring the Bible in Qur’anic Studies Scholarship of the Late Twentieth Century" (2024). It's on the history of qur'anic studies scholarship in the 20th century and the place of biblical literatere therein. Some thoughts ...
Really it's an autopsy of what went wrong why the topic stagnated in qur'anic studies after WW2. He gives this example of Watt's revisions of Bell's Intro to the Qur'an as primary example of what changed. The language of the ToC speaks volumes.
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I think people are too harsh on Watt, but his approach does strike me as minimizing and even censoring the rigorist, comparativist approach of older orientalist philology in favor of practicing scholarship as a way of making nice: For Watt (an Anglican priest) ...
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Apr 24, 2024
Ehrman's right ofc, and the axiom isn't "hidden"
The Qur'an is a human text: it's written in a human language and as such ought to be analyzed as a product of humanity.
Ratifying a fideist "special pleading fallacy" as the foundation of your hermeneutic is against free inquiry
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that it does not bow to or support grand claims about metaphysics or apodictic declarations about god, which its ardent detractors want to impose on the rest of us.
But seriously consider -- what new things have those infallible™ types told us about the ancient world ...
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Epigraphy can be dangerous! A quick tall tale from the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (d. 1229) about how an epigraphic discovery in Palmyra led to fall of the Umayyad caliphate…
The story is told by a grandson of Khālid al-Qasrī named Ismāʿīl. He recounts ... Aerial photo of Palmyra, A. Poidebard (1934)
how he accompanied the last Umayyad caliph Marwān II to defeat the rival claimant, Sulaymān ibn Hishām. He says:
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