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Sean W. Anthony

@shahansean.bsky.social

Professor, historian, specialist in Mashriqī Studies at 𝕿𝖍𝖊 Ohio State University

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The Arabs and the Ummah of Muḥammad This essay starts from a somewhat simple question: What was the ummah of Muḥammad? It has become commonplace in the historiography of early Islam to understand the ummah of Muḥammad as primarily the “...

My most recently published article
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03.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Volume 9 Issue 2 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 1 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/2 @ucpress.bsky.social @shahansean.bsky.social

09.05.2025 15:52 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an This article revisits a leitmotif of modern Western scholarship on the Qur’an: the historical-critical appraisal of its accounts of the end of Jesus’s earthly mission and its apparent denial of his cr...

My most recent article: "The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an," Studies in Late Antiquity 9.2 (Summer 2025)
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08.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The influence of English on Modern Standard Arabic speech reporting styles: A corpus-based study This paper traces the development of speech reporting styles across historical varieties of Arabic and seeks to explain aspects of such development. T…

Just how strong is the syntactic impact of translationese on Modern Standard Arabic? Well -

Frequency of indirect speech
Quranic: 0.45%
Classical: 0.30%
MSA: 30.50%

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