Reposted by chonkshonkRurouni_Phoenix @rurouniphoenix.bsky.social · 14/05/2025In Midrash Tehillim 1.10, Rabbi Chiya states the opinion that God prevented Noah from siring a child who would be a descendant of the generation of the flood and would therefore die with them. This seems to call to mind the story of Noah’s lost son in the Quran (Q 11:36-49): 121
Reposted by chonkshonkMarijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 08/02/2025An interesting interplay of orality and written transmission of the Quran that I recently ran into going through the Taysīr, at Q37:123 al-Dānī has a curious statement about the recitation of وان الياس... let's dive in! 1133
Reposted by chonkshonkRurouni_Phoenix @rurouniphoenix.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Post by @chonkshonk.bsky.social featuring Imar Koutchoukali's observations on the development of henotheism in First - 3rd century CE Arabia on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history: www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...reddit.comFrom the AcademicQuran community on Reddit: Imar Koutchoukali on South Arabian henotheism from the 1st to 3rd centuriesExplore this post and more from the AcademicQuran community 021
Reposted by chonkshonkRurouni_Phoenix @rurouniphoenix.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Post by @chonkshonk.bsky.social chronicling academic views regarding the Quran's knowledge of earlier religious texts in its elliptical style on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history: www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...reddit.comFrom the AcademicQuran community on Reddit: Academic views about knowledge of Jewish, Christian, and biblical tradition in Muhammad's audience based on the allusive style of the QuranExplore this post and more from the AcademicQuran community 011
Reposted by chonkshonkMarijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Ibn Muǧāhid is widely regarded as the canonizer of the seven reading traditions, but if you actually look at the ʾIsnāds through which people trace the readings he barely visible. How come? 🧵 2223
Reposted by chonkshonkMarijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 05/12/2024NEW PUBLICATION: I was asked to write for the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān the entry on Solecisms in the Qurʾān. I used the opportunity to talk about something other than the same tired old verses (Q4:162; Q6:70; Q20:63) doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_EQO_EQCOM_062347doi.orgSolecisms in the Qurʾān"Solecisms in the Qurʾān" published on by Brill. 1144
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Joshua Little on where biographical information in rijal literature comes from islamicorigins.com/revisiting-t... 021
Reposted by chonkshonkRurouni_Phoenix @rurouniphoenix.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Muriel Debié's arguments for a 6th century dating of the Song of Alexander (page numbers are lacking, but this begins at the section entitled "the dating and environment of composition in this text") 111
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Similarities and differences between Muslim and Mormon views on scripture. (Grant Underwood, "The Prophetic Legacy in Islam and Mormonism" in New Perspectives in Mormon Studies, University of Oklahoma Press 2013, pp. 104–106) 000
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Important new addition to the r/AcademicQuran bibliographies—containing popular videos related to the field, important PhD theses, notable lectures posted online, and some classic publications in the history of the field. new.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...new.reddit.comr/AcademicQuranA forum for the discussion of academic Quranic studies, including questions about the Quran's formation, interpretation, historical context, manuscripts, etc. Topics including pre-Islamic Arabia & lat... 022
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This is gonna be a good read bsky.app/profile/ghaf... 000
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Are people familiar with Sebastian Brock? Probably one of the most prolific historians alive right now, and much of that effort going into studying the Syriac tradition. It's remarkable. 110
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Rurouni shares five must-read works about Syriac Christianity www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...reddit.comReddit - Dive into anythingIn this article Philip Michael Forness lists five essential reads for anyone interested in the study of Syriac Christianity: 000
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024It looks like Volume 9 of the Journal of International Quranic Studies Association is finally fully out: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...degruyter.comJournal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association Volume 9 Issue 1Volume 9, issue 1 of the journal Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association was published in 2024. 001
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We're getting more posts by Joshua Little and Im here for it bsky.app/profile/isla... 010
Reposted by chonkshonkRurouni_Phoenix @rurouniphoenix.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If you are into academic Islamic/Quranic studies, you owe it to yourself to follow @chonkshonk.bsky.social . He's my partner in crime on r/AcademicQuran and always has a lot of excellent insights and reblogs cool stuff. Follow him, or I'm going to go to your house and make you feel unsafe. Loljk 022
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Legal passages in the Quran and their pre-Islamic parallels. (Joseph Lowry, "Quranic Law and Its ‘Biblical’ Intertexts", Appendix) 001
chonkshonk @chonkshonk.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Hello all! Lets see how active this platform is... 110