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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
2 months
Is Noah's flood in the Quran portrayed as global or local? Here are some arguments defending the idea the Quran portrays a local flood:
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A Talmud/Hadith parallel: the idea that Adam was created very tall can be found in the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Bava Batra (c.450 – c.550 CE) and in the hadith literature. It's interesting that the rabbinic text has Adam at 100 cubits, while the Hadith has him at 60 cubits!
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Ian Cook
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The best paper I have seen on the topic of I’jāz al-Qur’an (inimitability of the Qur’an) from an academic perspective (laying out the doctrine's history and evolution) is Sophia Vasalou's "The Miraculous Eloquence of the Qur'an: General Trajectories and Individual Approaches".
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
4 months
@umichvoter votes will still be counted faster than AZ and NV
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Ian Cook
2 years
@Nate_Cohn huge news if the majority is this narrow
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Ian Cook
9 months
Pretty striking parallel between 1 Clement and the Quran here IMO. Anyone know some other strong parallels between early Church Fathers' writings and the Quran?
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Ian Cook
2 years
@TeachClt @DecisionDeskHQ yeah this is a really big win for election security
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Ian Cook
7 months
@umichvoter @dylan_drews1 WI PA MI AZ (dems have had a long of successs in AZ in the past few cycles as compared to NC and GA). NV is only 6 electoral college votes.
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Ian Cook
3 months
Talmud/Hadith parallel: Decrease of religious knowledge towards the end of times
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Ian Cook
2 years
@HackMorris @daveweigel it’s a joke haha, sarcastic comment bc no one cares about the letter
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Ian Cook
6 months
Very interesting stuff on the r/AcademicQuran AMA with Nicolai Sinai. When asked about how the Quran portrays the Exodus, Sinai writes about Q26:54: "In any case, I would agree with your proposal that this passage implies a "small Exodus"." Full discussion here:
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
2 years
@Politics_Polls another L for Trump
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Ian Cook
1 year
@Olivia_Beavers Jordan should drop out. 20 defections? More than Mccarthy's first round. What a loser
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Ian Cook
8 months
I wanted to study the afterlife in early Vedic religions and texts; famously, Indian religons (Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism) have a reincarnation component to them. BUT I found that some claim the earliest layer of the Hindu scriptures don't clearly have reincarnation.
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
6 months
Black seed/Cumin being used for medicinal purposes is a concept found in both Berakhot 40a (c.450 – c.550 CE) and many authentic hadith traditions.
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
2 months
I'm pretty sure this an incredibly big deal. Romanos the Melodist likely lived and wrote in the 500s and thus, this is a pre-Quranic example of Jesus speaking as an infant. As @shahanSean has said, the Syraic Infancy Gospel likely post-dates and has been influenced by the Quran.
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As, promised yesterday, here is the conversation between Mary and the infant Jesus in Romanos the Melodist's On the Nativity (Mary with Adam and Eve) which is similar to other infancy gospel traditions which have the newborn Christ declaring his salvific mission:
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Ian Cook
7 months
Some notes on the moon splitting story from Uri Rubin's “Muhammad’s message in Mecca: warnings, signs, and miracles":
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Ian Cook
10 months
Tommaso Tesei's new work, The Syriac Legend of Alexander's Gate: Apocalypticism at the Crossroads of Byzantium and Iran, argues that an earlier version of the Neshana was produced during the reign of Justinian I (r. 527-565). I will briefly summarize his points chapter by chapter
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
1 year
@OuttaFuckz @BleacherReport crackstream as well lmao. streameast. all the sites
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Ian Cook
23 days
I realize how little I know about traditional hadith science and so I have been reading Al-Azami's book "On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence" to get into it today and it is a pretty good primer and easy to understand.
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Ian Cook
6 months
@shahanSean Don't you think Paradise in the Quran neccesitates you being happy all the time? So this idea that you will not feel satisfied, or feel bored, etc. is not something that can happen in the Quranic Paradise. Seems you could wish any potential negative mental states away. Q41:31:
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Ian Cook
6 months
Exodus, Ephrem and the Quran all mention the thowing of the staff and the turning into the snake vs Pharoah's magicians. When faced against Pharoah, in the Book of Exodus narrative, Aaron is the one to throw *his* staff
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Ian Cook
7 months
You have got an interesting story of Moses resisting the Angel of Death in both Midrashish sources, such as Sifrei Devarim (200 CE) and the Hadith collections. Both focus on how the Angel of Death failed and retreated, and pay special attention to Moses and his burial.
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Ian Cook
4 months
@InspiringPhilos Yes, it's a crime against humanity for societies to have dress codes. That's why I know you find it very abhorrent that societies have anti-nudity laws! I get very emotional when thinking about all the poor people forced to wear pants :(
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Ian Cook
6 months
Take a look at this talmud/hadith parallel:
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Akiva ben Yosef
6 months
Babil Talmudu ve hadis külliyatı arasında bugün bulduğum bir benzerlik: "Şabat'ta oruç tutan kişi faziletlidir ve onun 70 yıllık cezasını kaldırır." -Berakhot 31b "Kim Allah için oruç tutarsa, Allah onun yüzünü (ateşten) 70 yıllık uzaklıkta tutar." -Sahih al-Bukhari 2840
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Ian Cook
11 months
I barely have to read much before I see parallels between rabbinic literature and hadith @hadithworks @IslamicOrigins @shahanSean
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Ian Cook
1 year
@IslamicOrigins @shahanSean @hadithworks I came across a fascinating parallel between rabbinic literature and a hadith report about the end times, has any work been done on this?
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Ian Cook
9 months
Joseph Witztum's thesis, "The Syriac Milieu of the Quran: The Recasting of Biblical Narratives" is a really in-depth study that I enjoy coming back to again and again. Chapter 7 of the thesis analyzes the story of Joseph in Q12 and Syriac Christian traditions about Joseph.
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Ian Cook
10 months
An interesting parallel between Midrash and Hadith: Adam donating years of his life to David. It should be noted that the Hadith comes from the collection of Al-Tirmidhi (d. 892), and this specifc Midrash comes from the Yalkut Shimoni, compiled between the 11th and 14th centuries
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Ian Cook
3 months
@umichvoter these are terrible numbers
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Ian Cook
2 years
@Nate_Cohn yessirrrr. Dems need this one and one of NV GA AZ
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Ian Cook
9 months
I recently read Charbel Rizk's paper, "The Joseph Story in the Qur’ān and in the Syriac Tradition: Qur’ānic Prophetology as a Counter-Discourse to Christocentric Typology". Here are some of my takeaways from the paper:
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Ian Cook
2 months
In one narration, the Prophet warns about the "Khudh" and "Kirman" who will have be "of red faces, flat noses and small eyes; their faces will look like flat shields, and their shoes will be of hair". Who could these people be? Do we have any record of people w this description?
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Ian Cook
10 months
According to a Sunni hadith tradition, traveling is better at night because the earth is "folded" during the night. This narration seems to use the expression of the earth being folded figuratively.
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Ian Cook
9 months
We have a story about Abraham being thrown into the fire by a king in Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo (6:16-17; circa first or second century CE), Genesis Rabbah (38:13; 300 to 500 CE) and in chapters of the Quran. How did this story emerge?
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
8 months
read this a while back, now rereading...
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Ian Cook
7 months
Joseph Witztum's "The Foundations of the House (Q 2: 127)" analyzes Quran 2:127, which describes Abraham and Isma'il (Ishmael) raising the foundations of "the house" together. Some notes:
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Ian Cook
8 months
Found an early reference of yawning while praying being a sort of negative thing in Berakhot (c.450 – c.550 CE); in both the talmud and the hadith, there is a covering of the yawn with the hand during prayer.
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Ian Cook
3 months
@umichvoter At least Baldwin is running ahead of the ticket
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Ian Cook
2 months
Noah addresses only his own people, repeatedly using phrases like "O my people!" (Q10:71, Q11:28-30). The Quran makes no explicit mention of other nations or populations being impacted.
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Ian Cook
6 months
How did Moses part the Red Sea? In the Book of Exodus (14:15-18) Moses raises his staff and stretches out his hand to divide the sea. In Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses, Gregory has Moses *striking the sea with his rod (staff)*, allowing for the split to occur.
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Ian Cook
2 months
lmao
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Ian Cook
6 days
There is no censorship of questions one considers to be silly on r/AcademicQuran (or r/AcademicBiblical for that matter). Questions about fringe and unacademic theories are asked and responded to with academic sources. What's the problem?
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Interesting, Firas. So, why did you leave out the part where all the Academic Quran subreddit users commenting on this crackpot theory, are actually refuting it?
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Ian Cook
2 months
The Quranic account consistently refers to the flood as an event involving Noah and his people specifically. For example, Q11:25 states: "And we had sent Noah to his people (saying): 'I am to you a clear warner.'"
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Ian Cook
2 months
Nicolai Sinai in his "The Christian Elephant in the Meccan Room: Dye, Tesei, and Shoemaker on the Date of the Qurʾān" examines Shoemaker and Dye on the Nativity Pericope in Sūrah 19 and proposes an alternative explanation of the data.
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Ian Cook
7 months
Additionally, you find in a few Hadith reports that when people enter paradise, they will be very tall (Adam's height). In the rabbinic texts however, this future height extension that will occur will seemingly be on Earth:
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Ian Cook
7 months
Just to add an additional point, on page 264 in Shoemaker's book, "Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study", Shoemaker references an interview Neuwirth did in 2015 where she was asked "who wrote the Qur’an" and she "replies by naming God—in addition to Muhammad..."
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7 months
We finally got the Neuwirth inimitability clip, after pushing for it that began on r/AcademicQuran. Here's a translation of the discussion by one user (followed by a brief exchange) and then my own comments on the context we now have.
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Ian Cook
5 months
This is an interesting start, and I appreciate the attention given to this topic of potential ex eventu prophecies in the Sunni hadith literature. A few comments:
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5 months
The Hadiths about Bedouin Arabs Building Tall Buildings - UAE/Saudi Arabia Prophecy? Or a Common-Link Fabrication?
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@IanCook321
Ian Cook
2 years
@Landrew89048139 @Nate_Cohn exactly. if the majority was lopsided dems wouldn’t have a chance in 24. if it’s close, they have chance to flip it next time
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Ian Cook
3 months
The Book of Revelation and Hadith traditions have the Euphrates River drying up close at the end times. However, I have yet to find the element of a mountain of gold being found in pre-Hadith texts. I have tried looking at a few Late Antique Christian apocalypses but no match.
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Ian Cook
7 months
The Qumran community (the Dead Sea Scrolls cult) believed that the messianic age where evil would be defeated and judgment would come in would be 40ish years after the death (the "gathering in") of the Teacher of Righteousness
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2 years
@sydrasmith @JakeSherman same exact margin, 222-213
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Ian Cook
3 months
1 Enoch has Noah praising God seemingly immediately after he was born @Rurouni_Phoenix
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8 months
@atrupar she can still win, if only mike pence has some courage!!
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Ian Cook
1 year
@Olivia_Beavers What's so funny Gym? Did you or did you not vote to overturn the election results for 2020?
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Ian Cook
7 months
By the way, I tried to find the earliest mention of this in rabbinic literature. There are other places Adam's height is mentioned:
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2 years
@_Ryan246 @Politics_Polls @nytimes yeah NC should have more D money spent than FL and OH moving forward
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4 months
@RamonIHarvey @chonkshonk1 When it comes to western/critical islamic studies, the language barrier is also a huge issue that can come in to play here. It is clear that a traditionally trained student of knowledge has far better Arabic skills than many western academics.
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@umichvoter Although "judge" is too harsh of a word, I would prefer they vote due to the fact that a strong popular vote victory and better state margins would be a healthy sign that the American populace more strongly rejects the anti-democratic movement in the US.
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I have been told by some that the tall buildings prophecy in the hadith literature is actually more specific and not general in its descriptions because we have reports that state where the tall buildings will be built (Mecca) and how tall they will be (talller than mountains):
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Ian Cook
8 months
I read "Portrayals of Kings in Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity" by Richard Kalmin, very interesting stuff: Palestinian rabbinic sources tend to whitewash King David's sins and portray him as a saint who did not commit the moral transgressions described in the Bible.
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Ian Cook
7 months
An article by Walid Saleh, "End of Hope: Suras 10-15, Despair and a Way Out of Mecca" discusses a group of six surahs (chapters 10-15) in the Quran that to Saleh seem to reflect a crisis period in the prophetic career.
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Ian Cook
10 months
Michael E. Pregill's new paper (which he will send to you if you request it, though I happened to obtain it from someone else), “From the Mishnah to Muḥammad: Jewish Traditions of Late Antiquity and the Composition of the Qur’an" has some interesting insights:
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Ian Cook
2 years
@travpress @Politics_Polls @nytimes oh yeah for sure, i think dems should have focused a bit more on this one tbh
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Ian Cook
2 months
When describing the fate of those who rejected Noah's message, the language suggests a specific group. Q7:64 says: "But they rejected him and We delivered him and those with him in the ark, and we drowned those who rejected Our signs. They were indeed a people who were blind."
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Ian Cook
3 months
@umichvoter Biden should drop out, he's playing with our democracy
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Ian Cook
3 months
TIL Jacob of Serugh wrote and sent a letter to the Christian community of Najran in South Arabia. From "Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East: A Study of Jacob of Serugh" by Michael Forness
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Ian Cook
2 years
@JakeSherman lmaooo he’s bleeding votes 😭😭
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Ian Cook
6 months
I'm beginning to read "When the Son of Man Didn't Come: A Constructive Proposal on the Delay of the Parousia" by Christopher M. Hays. This is a masterful work and has me thinking about Hebrew Prophecy in general in ways I did not before.
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Ian Cook
10 months
Christopher B Zeichmann's 2017 paper, "The Date of Mark’s Gospel Apart from the Temple and Rumors of War: The Taxation Episode (12:13–17) as Evidence" IMO is one of the most exciting developments in the discussion surrounding dating the Gospel of Mark:
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Ian Cook
2 months
Pavel Pavlovitch in "The Formation of the Islamic Understanding of Kalāla in the Second Century AH (718–816 CE)" on Sunni kutub al-rijāl, kutub al-ʿilal, and other prosopographical literature and reasons to be careful about using them as independent sources of information:
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2 months
Does the Quran state all of humanity stems from Noah? The Quran's description of the survivors as successors seems to be framed in the context of Noah's specific community:
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Ian Cook
5 months
@muslimcritiques yeah lol, this guy is going up against a strawman. Who seriously thinks the NT material was fabricated in like the 200s or 300s lol
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Ian Cook
2 years
@Politics_Polls @AP it's likely never going back to warnock
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Ian Cook
1 year
@PhDniX this type of blatant lying and misrepresentation should be a terms of service violation on online platforms or something. I still can't believe these videos got the amount of views they got...
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Ian Cook
2 months
I feel that while the Quran identifies some groups as descendants of those on the Ark, it does not claim all humanity descends from them. Q17:1-5 indicates that the Children of Israel were descendants of Noah for example.
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Ian Cook
4 months
The "Young Earth Creationism" movement is a recent phenomenon and brings with it new elements not widely accepted by early Christian thinkers. However, it should be stated that the idea of using biblical texts to come up with an age of the world isn't new or unique at all:
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Ian Cook
1 year
@Olivia_Beavers lmao she was trying to have her moment by waiting til the end.
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Ian Cook
4 months
@BanjoAtheist It bothers me so much that people just go around saying "Jesus said" instead of the "The Markan Jesus said", etc.
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Ian Cook
5 months
Over the past few weeks I have been getting into the academic study of the early LDS Church. It has got to be one of the most interesting things I have gotten into in my life.
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Ian Cook
2 months
Q11:44 states: "And it came to rest 'alaa'l juwdiyyi." While this is often translated as "on Mount Judi," the Arabic preposition "'alaa" can also mean "at" or "near." Just as the phrase "'alaa baabihi" means "at his door" rather than "on top of his door," we can understand...
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Ian Cook
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I'm going to listen to a traditionalist's response to Dr. Joshua Little's 21 reasons why historians are skeptical of Hadith. Interestingly, this response is also 3 hrs long, just like Dr. Little's original video!
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Ian Cook
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Q10:73-74: "And they denied him, so We saved him and those who were with him in the ark and made them successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. Then see how was the end of those who were warned. Then We sent after him Messengers to their people..."
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Ian Cook
2 months
@umichvoter Well Garcia, Pocan, Huffman are all on the Progressive Caucus together, but i don't think Veasey is
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Ian Cook
8 months
Very interesting connection between a Hadith and rabbinic text found by @yosef_akiva
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Akiva ben Yosef
8 months
Peygamberin büyük ihtimal beni (akiva ben yosef) övdüğü hadis varmış lan. “(...)(sizden önceki ümmetlerden bir adamın) eti ve kemiği demir tarak ile taranırdı. Fakat bu yapılanlar yine de onu dininden döndüremezdi.”(sahih-i buhari) +
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In the middle of listening to this episode right now, give it a listen if you are interested in the subject! I really want to thank Sképsislamica for doing these videos with academics, it really is a great service. Like the video and subscribe to their channel!
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Mr. Terron Poole
9 months
In this episode of the Real Talk Podcast with Terron and Roxanna, we discuss with Dr. Tommaso Tesei the contents of his latest monograph on the Neṣḥānā d-Aleksandrōs, titled "The Syriac Legend of Alexander's Gate: Apocalypticism at the Crossroads of Byzantium and Iran." Dr.
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@JoshuaLWatson Yeah, Ecclesiastes often comes to mind. I think someone should make a graphic of different afterlife views in the bible, something to help guide the discussion on the evolution of belief in afterlife stuff
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@Gypsy_heart8 @iftiswelt plus, some of these ideas seem to stem and emerge in the period of no prophetic revelation. Like if the material is found in sources 3rd to 6th century for the first time, there are no prophets per islamic theology giving these inspired details
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5 months
What do you mean by this? The majority of secular scholars believe that the Quran is more or less the message of the Prophet Muhammad and provides insight into the early Islamic movement.
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Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️
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One of my conclusions from my shallow wades into Early Islamic Studies is that we can confidently say less about the historical Muhammad, his early movement, pre-Islamic Arabia and the Quran than is often presumed by almost everyone.
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Ian Cook
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An interesting Early Christian text: Epistula Apostolorum (The Epistle of the Apostles) It is is a 2nd century Christian text that portrays a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples after the resurrection. The text presents a proto-orthodox view against docetism.
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Ian Cook
2 years
@Politics_Polls @nytimes any votes counted after this is FRAUD!
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Ian Cook
8 months
Paula Fredriksen titles Chapter 5 of her book "Paul: The Pagans' Apostle" as "Christ and the Kingdom", and speaks in some depth about Paul's eschatological beliefs. Here are some notes:
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4 months
@muslimcritiques It's so sad. I think it really stems from cultural superiority in a way. If something doesn't conform to normative western values some people get so repulsed and unable to understand.
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2 years
@HartehankUnion @Nate_Cohn nah i don’t believe that’s going to happen
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Ian Cook
1 year
@NoorMuhammadiya “the prophet had appeared, coming with the Saracens” is just such a legendary line
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5 months
@shahanSean Paul is a great insight into the early Christian movement, it would be a great tragedy if we didn't have his letters for whatever reason.
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Ian Cook
2 months
Wow, look how similarly the Huns are described here:
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Ian Cook
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In one narration, the Prophet warns about the "Khudh" and "Kirman" who will have be "of red faces, flat noses and small eyes; their faces will look like flat shields, and their shoes will be of hair". Who could these people be? Do we have any record of people w this description?
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