1/21 Thread on the composition and canonization of the Qurʾānic materials.
2/21 The Islamic tradition transmits a number of diverse accounts about the “collection” of the Qurʾān. According to the most widely accepted account, the
collection would have happened during the reign of the third caliph ʿUṯmān.
Jun 6, 2019 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
Thread on militant piety in the Qur'an
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One of the most difficult knots to untie in modern Muslim-Christian-Jewish relationships concerns militaristic understandings of the Qur’anic notion of jihad.
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Qur’anic passages that incite to religious violence are frequently brought into analysis of Islamic terrorism and discussion about global security, often giving rise to the fallacious idea that militant piety is a historical peculiarity of Islamic societies.
