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chonkshonk
@chonkshonk1
Interested in Quranic studies, Islamic origins, hadith studies, the study of pre-Islamic Arabia. Moderator at r/AcademicQuran.
Jul 21, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I disagree with this take. It is true that if we base this solely on our prior expectations, then yes, we have a pattern where only local peoples are destroyed in response to their rejection of a prophets warnings. However, when it comes to Noah, the
Quran breaks its own symmetry in terms of the divine response to the rejection of the prophets warnings and describes the resulting punishment as global. Q 11:40; 23:27 says that Noah took on the ark a pair of "every kind" of living thing. Q 37:77 says only Noah's descendants
Apr 8, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Im often asked about Brannon Wheeler's comments on the Dhu al-Qarnayn story, in his book Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis, 2002, pp. 16–19, and his paper "Moses or Alexander? Early Islamic Exegesis of Qurʾān 18: 60-65". 🧵 The first observation worth making is that Wheeler was writing before the current spree of academic literature on the subject, which began with Van Bladel's 2008 paper "The Alexander Legend in the Qur'an 18:83-102". His work is therefore severely outdated, to say the least.
Mar 30, 2024 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
A thread of the questions given to Nicolai Sinai and his responses from the AMA we just had with him on r/AcademicQuran.🧵
(due to thread limitations, I could not include all questions. see the original: )reddit.com/r/AcademicQura… The Quranic representation of Jewish and Christian religion Image
Dec 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Some of the most interesting developments in Qur'anic & Islamic studies of 2023 (my opinion, order is random). Julien Decharneux's new book Creation and Contemplation: The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background. First monograph on Quranic cosmology. Also, check out our AMA with Julien Decharneux back in August: reddit.com/r/AcademicQura…
Nov 30, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
What is "Western" Quranic studies? Is Quranic studies "Western" and, if so, what does that mean? I'm skeptical of the idea that it is appropriately called "Western" and I wanted to lay out my reasoning around this. When some people call Quranic studies "Western", they might mean one of several things (or a combination of them). I tried to come up with several ideas as to what this might mean: