Qur’anic Islam

An important 'time out' by a very clear thinker. Much of what Shoemaker claims about the Hijaz on the eve of Islam is conclusively disproved by material evidence, which grows by the year. I have a surprise, too, from my last survey mission (May 2025) between Taif-Mecca and Medina

shorturl.at/8IG8f

#New on #OCIANA - The #Dhofari Script 2 inscriptions documented by Dr. Al-Mashikhi, many thanks for his hard work. DhI 8 is simply remarkable. The Mušrikīn of the Quran state: 'nothing dooms us but Fate (ad-dahr)'. DhI 8 states: 'Dahr, lord of plunder and fear, burned fiercely'.

From the AcademicQuran community on Reddit: Are Saqib Hussain's arguments about the meaning of 'an and what went behind the veil correct? Explore this post and more from the AcademicQuran community

Post I made asking if Saqib Hussain's grammatical argument about the story of Solomon in Q 38 is valid on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Too Many Palestinian (and Certain Israeli) Voices Are Excluded from the U.S. Media By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan We need a media that reflects the full range of voices. Without that, peace, in the Middle East and elsewhere, will remain beyond reach.

"The ongoing suffering of the Palestinians rarely appears in the mainstream U.S. media. It is absolutely essential that people here, the source of Israel’s arsenal, have access to the full breadth of debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

With 83% of its Buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than Money to rebuild By John Tookey, Auckland University of Technology (The Conversation) – The Gaza Strip is a tortured piece of land that is about 40km long and 11km wide. Some 2.3 million souls are crammed into a space of around 360 square kilometres. This is barely larger than central Sydney. People and empires have lived in, built […]

With 83% of its Buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than Money to rebuild

the “disbelievers” (really kuffar) of the Arabs are in doubt about

It isn’t the existence of God, needless to say

Sorry I haven’t checked blue sky for a long time, even though I was intending to “move” here permanently & leave twitter behind

Anyway, to your question

If you have a specific verse in mind let me know, otherwise it is generally the Hereafter, resurrection, reward/punishment that the+

Gaza is Starving and the World Looks Away By Adnan Hmidan ( Middle East Monitor ) – In Gaza, mornings no longer begin with the sound of explosions — but with the quiet, urgent cries of hunger. Mothers wake to infants with no milk. Children search for scraps to ease empty stomachs before the bombs return to flatten what little hope remains. This […]

Gaza is Starving and the World Looks Away

From the AcademicQuran community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the AcademicQuran community

Post asking about what happened to the Ghassanids and Lakhmids after the Islamic conquests on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?

the “forgetful” (or was it “the forgotten”?) respectively

There’s also of course the whole trend of
واضربوهن
being construed to mean “leave them” or “go on strike” or even “strike for them an example (a mathal)

I’ll come back with some examples of the crudeness that I’m thinking of a the arguments around them. Many are just too “ethereal” for me to remember the leaps in logic. Right now I only recall an example of someone saying that “rijal” doesn’t mean men nor “nisa” women but rather forerunners …

in terms of a fundamentals. What comes first? A root meaning for a combination of letters or the words. Originally it seems to me that the first words using a tri-root would have come first & it is thus the early words/usage that impart meaning to root letters rather than root letters to the words

Thanks for this, and yes I certainly agree that it is fundamentally legitimate. Perhaps I should have given examples, bc what I had in mind is instances where far too much “heavy lifting” is being given and then an almost arbitrary very specific meaning to a word is concluded

I was also thinking…

It’s this concept that some have that they can derive the meaning of an Arabic word (Quranic or otherwise) from the “root letters/word” alone, coupled with some understanding of morphology it seems

What would you say to that?

@phdnix.bsky.social
Hi Dr Marijn, hope you are well (& the little one)

Wanted to ask you about something I see a lot among Quranists which I find quite vexing & I’m trying to write something up about it clearly. I don’t know if you yourself see it often or have come across it or something similar

one of the nice things about Quranic studies is that you can make new discoveries unheard of in 1400 years just by thinking in a nonsectarian way

The sign of those engaged in da’wah who just wish to fight and “beat” their opponents (“enemies”) or more than they want to guide and help their fellow humans;

When the opportunity presents itself, whether by the behavior of their “opponents” or not, they give reign to their jahl over their hilm

Juan with his new book, "Rethinking the Qur'an in Late Antiquity," De Gruyter 2025 at the last AOS in Boston www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Well, that's disappointing. @bsky.app started banning accounts complying with Turkish government demands. Not the safe haven those who migrated from X was seeking, it seems.

YouTube video by From the Periphery Khartoum is Free, But the War Rages On

There is nowhere near enough discussions on Sudan, where the humanitarian situation is being described as the worst in human history. I sat to talk with two brilliant Sudanese commentators @bsonblast.bsky.social and @dalliasd.bsky.social to talk about war and more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuB...

Master Thread

One thread to rule them, one thread to find them, yadda, yadda, et cetera, et cetera …

bsky.app/profile/qura...

Post featuring some comments on the early Greek translation of the Quran (possibly the earliest done in a European language) on AcademicIslam a growing community dedicated to studying and discussing Islam from an historical critical perspective:

www.reddit.com/r/academicis...

In his most recent work Rethinking the Quran and Late Antiquity, @jricole.bsky.social speculates that the story of Moses and the servant of God in Sura 18 may have had Babylonian Jewish origins on the basis of Middle Persian vocabulary used in the story:

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed war on Yemen.

While much of the media is focused on a leaked national security group chat, the victims of U.S. warfare on Yemen are gravely overlooked.

10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen Democratic lawmakers are calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz to resign, after they discussed bombing Yemen in a group chat that also included journalist...

10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen

Amid outrage over a group chat in which senior Trump administration officials planned an attack on Yemen, there is almost no scrutiny of the deadly bombing campaign at the heart of the scandal. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/26/si...

“Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets...

"Kidnapped": 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk

I've been working on recent Qur'an translations. A common feature here is the desire to defend Islam against attacks. What struck me today is that, contrary to what many (including Muslim translators) would intuitively assume, this did not start on September 11, 2001. It started on January 16, 1991.

Macklemore has been a vocal advocate for Palestinian rights and critic of U.S. foreign policy since the start of Israel's war on Gaza.

“It's my moral obligation,” says Macklemore. “I'm not going to stop.”