Every time I come across one of those annoying AI info channels with an AI Avatar with a fake AI backdrop I literally feel like going Butlerian Jihad on it
01.11.2025 16:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@rurouniphoenix.bsky.social
Independent Researcher. Founder and chief moderator of r/AcademicQuran. I study the Bible and the Quran in their cultural contexts from an academic perspective.
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01.11.2025 16:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This looks like a decent book for anybody interested in the contemporary study of how Evangelical Christianity in the 21st century has reacted to Islam:
01.11.2025 16:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post asking what the earliest non-Islamic reference to the splitting of the Moon is on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
01.11.2025 16:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post asking about late antique attitudes towards musical instruments on academic Quran The source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
01.11.2025 13:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0AI slop art is ugly. Fundy Christian AI slop art is a sin
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Post asking about the pre-Islamic deity Dhu-Khalasa and the purported 19th century revival of his worship on AcademicQuran / the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
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Religion for Breakfast discusses one of my favorite topics in Christian art history: why the heck is Jesus carrying a stick?
31.10.2025 16:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post asking if there are academic treatments for the origin of Rawdah Riyad al-Jannah on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
31.10.2025 16:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This alternate timeline posits that if Christianity had not taken root in the west Islam would have. The problem with this alternate history is that if it was not for Christianity, Islam would not exist. Ditto if Judaism was a marginalized faith
31.10.2025 16:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post by @chonkshonk.bsky.social announcing Raymond Farrin's upcoming book on the early Quran in Mecca on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
30.10.2025 16:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post asking for academic resources on the archeology of Najran on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
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Turns out in the Mahabharata there's similar story to the episode of the crystal floor in Solomon's Palace in Targum Sheni Esther and the Quran, though the exact connection if any is unclear.
(Source Geybels and Van Herck, Humour and Religion, pp. 38-39)
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Post speculating that the quran's story of the death of Solomon is reconfiguring Talmudic legends on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
29.10.2025 16:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sahih Bukhari (3409, 4736 and 6614; cf. Sahih Muslim 2652 A-D)
records an exchange between Moses and Adam which seems reminiscent of a late antique Jewish Aramaic poem (ShBM 40).
Source: Laura Suzanne Lieber, Jewish Aramaic Poetry pp. 147-149
That long-awaited post I talked about a few months ago about parallels between the Hadith and a Jewish Aramaic poem that records dialogue between Moses and Adam will drop tomorrow at 12:05 p.m. EST
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Post asking if there were Christian saints whom the pre-Islamic Arabs venerated on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
27.10.2025 18:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post I made asking Redditors their opinion about a paper arguing that Dhul Qarnayn is Solomon on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
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Got a repost to AQ about a paper arguing DQ is Solomon dropping tomorrow. Figured you guys would like to read it and argue about it
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Post asking who the Mahdi is on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:
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Retellings: The Septuagint of Exodus
https://open.substack.com/pub/intertextualbible/p/retellings-the-septuagint-of-exodus?r=2rbf1a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false