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Emran El-Badawi

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MY LATEST BOOK IS OUT! صدر اليوم بالانكليزية كتابي عن الاله والأنثى في القرآن الكريم، حوار مع الكتاب المقدس والشرق القديم Sample: @Palgrave @SpringerNature @iqsaweb @UHMCL @TarletonState @AARWeb @SBLsite

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

7 months

“We will not accept your apology after the genocide” — Father Munther Isaac, Bethlehem

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"We the Palestinians will recover. We will stand up again from the midst of destruction, as we have always done as Palestinians...But for those who are complicit I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?" Christmas Message from @MuntherIsaac

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I began class today by asking students. How are you? One of my students told me 27 members of his family were k1lled today when their building was destr0yed by Isr @eli air str1ke. Then everyone broke into tears.

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Did you know Arab Muslims built massive churches for Viking Christian kings? After Norman conquest of Sicily 12th C, former Kalbids/Fatimids built Cathedrals of Palermo, Monreale and Cappella Palatina (below!)

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Emran El-Badawi

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3 years

Book manuscript submitted! Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam

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@IDF Correction, targeting journalists is a war crime, just like massacring civilians and children left and right, among your other activities

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Emran El-Badawi

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2 years

So many tempting opportunities these days!

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5 years

Book in press :-)

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Islamic architectural influences on Norman churches in Sicily include: * Mosaics, geometrical & floral designs * Depictions of Jesus’ life & happiness, not his death on the cross * Perso-Andalusian gardens * Arabic text How ethnically, religiously, mixed we all are!

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2 years

#MerryChristmas Did you know scholars increasingly believe Arabia was predominantly monotheistic by 6th C, even Christian? The background of Christian Arabia set the scene for how queens and prophets exercised power, and changed our world.

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Emran El-Badawi

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4 years

When did the last great king of Arabia leave Paganism for Christianity? Who was he & why did he convert? How did this pave the way for Islam? The Syriac & Arabic sources tell us plenty about the: Destruction of al-‘Uzza (Part 1) Check it out!

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Albert Einstein lecture on relativity, Lincoln University, May 29, 1946 largely ignored by the press at the time, this makes for a powerful image today! #BlackLivesMatter

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Emran El-Badawi

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4 years

Did you know the Christian chieftain Zuhayr b. Janab al-Kalbi (d. 564) began a wave of iconoclasm/destruction of Arabian pagan shrines in 6th C? How did it pave the way for Muhammad’s purging of Kaaba idolatry? Behold: Destruction of al-‘Uzza (Part 2/3) Check it out!

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3 years

How to say Happy Ramadan in different Arabic dialects:

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The number and degrees of friendship in the Arabic language درجات الصداقة في اللغة العربية

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#HappyEaster Did you know the earliest Arab Christians worshipped Mary as ‘mother goddess’? Don’t believe me—Check out the influence of Collyridians through HB, church fathers & Qur’an below!

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Emran El-Badawi

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4 years

On Fibonacci whose numerical system carries his name, and Al-Khwarezmi who invented Algebra, and the House of Wisdom library of Baghdad @IslamScienceNet

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Emran El-Badawi

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3 years

I am happy to announce my new position as Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Langauges, University of Houston. I am humbled by the trust bestowed upon me by my predecessor and mentor, faculty and incredible staff.

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Emran El-Badawi

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2 years

Finally, I want to thank the Sicilians and Bengalis throughout Palermo for carrying me all these days, especially when I missed my flight I needed some Comfort food to lift my spirits. Grazie amici 🙏🏽🤲🏽🤗

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Emran El-Badawi

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Want to get MARRIED? Wondering why modern MARRIAGE is so complicated? Behold! There were over 20 MARRIAGE TYPES and conjugal unions in late antique Arabia. Check it out! (forgive preliminary mistakes)

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Emran El-Badawi

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4 years

I'm reading the collection, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, published at the end of Patricia Crone's life in 2016. All polemics aside, scarcely have I read such a heartfelt story of transformation by so serious a scholar! Here are some of her stunning comments...

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5 years

What is Islamic Modernism? From class this week, Fazlur Rahman believed there were four of this historical characteristics that defined the ethos of Islamic Modernism, from Rahman, Islam and Modernity, p. 50 Here goes! Photo: Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905), pupil & newspaper

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Why was Fazlur Rahman critical of Classical Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh)? (from class this week). FR was a typical Islamic Modernist in giving primacy to Philosophy. He was deeply disturbed that "Islamic higher ed" was based on studying Law at the expense of Philosophy...

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Emran El-Badawi

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2 years

Arrived 🤓 @OneworldNews @UHMCL @iqsaweb

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8 months

Check out this new “picture of the Qur’an’s audience,” by Saqib Hussain! #IQSA2023 #AARSBL23

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Emran El-Badawi

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7 months

As we bid farewell to a bloody and painful 2023, we pray for justice and liberty in 2024

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5 years

When the Qur'an appeared there were no Muslims. So how do we understand a term like imam? What was its relationship to the authority (sultan) vested in ancient scripture (kitab) and hierarchies of holy men (rahbaniyyah)? We need to go back to the Syriac churches of Arabia...

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Emran El-Badawi

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4 years

I am writing about Zenobia (Aram. batzabay), Empress of the East (d. ca. 274), and the outcast church father, Paul of Samosata (d. 275). They form a completely new link between Roman Arabia and Muhammad’s Arabia. Check it out!

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Emran El-Badawi

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7 years

Syriac Christian mss Mar Behnam/Mosul saved from ISIS. St Simeon & St Thomas depicted ما اجمل مخطوطات سريانية أعيدت من قبضة داعش في الموصل

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“If two men in a world of more than 7 billion people can provide €300million to restore Notre Dame, within six hours, then there is enough money in the world to feed every mouth, shelter every family and educate every child “

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Emran El-Badawi

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For many years the heart of the Latin speaking world was north Africa!

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I visited the Syrian Monastery (Deir al-Suryan) in Egypt last week, took pictures & gazed upon this mural of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob in Paradise. This image reflects the convergence of the West Syriac church, late antique art history & the Qur'an. Check it out! @iqsaweb

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Emran El-Badawi

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6 years

I generally try to avoid mixing politics w/sports but when both Swiss goals against Serbia are scored by two eagle baring Albanians-- Xherdan Shaqiri & Granit Xhaka--it reads like a story of poetic justice #SRBSUI

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Emran El-Badawi

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Stuck at London Gatwick airport. All flights grounded after Microsoft crashes worldwide.

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5 years

*Key texts of Islam, including Korans, collections of hadiths... Sufi... *Works of the Maliki school of Islamic law *Texts representative of the ‘Islamic sciences’, *Original works from the region, including contracts

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Emran El-Badawi

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5 years

Selling looted Qur’an manuscripts to the highest is a crime that needs to stop!

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5 years

A leaf from the famous “Blue Qur’an” will be auctioned this month at Sotheby’s.

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Emran El-Badawi

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3 years

#HappyValentines How did the Romans and Arabs of late antiquity settle their conflict? With a Love Story! The 1st Arab-Roman marriage in recorded history saved the empire & birthed Christian Arabia. It's also a lesson in Diversity going back almost two millenia Check it out!

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3 years

After beating the Roman-Byzantines on the battlefield. The defender of Arabia—Queen Mavia (d. 425; Mawiyah bt. ‘Afzar, malikat al-‘arab)—enacted a peace agreement with Emperor Valens (d. 378). She was now bound to Constantinople by peace treaty (Cf. Lat. foedus).

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Emran El-Badawi

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4 years

What are the ancient Near Eastern origins of the famous "Night of Destiny/Power" (ليلة القدر) believed come about during the last ten days of Ramadan? And what are its connections to Female Power, Syriac Christianity & ancient Sumeria? Check it out!

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Emran El-Badawi

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9 months

700 murders in one night !?!?!

More than 700 killed in overnight Israeli attacks, Gaza officials say

Health Ministry says it is the highest number of deaths in Gaza a 24-hour period since Israeli assault began.

www.aljazeera.com

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Emran El-Badawi

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5 years

* WHAT is the nature of the Qur'an? * WHO are its MODERN believers? * Just HOW diverse is 1.6B ppl? * How do Shariah & Human Rights MIX? A THREAD on my book || COMMUNITIES OF THE QUR'AN: Dialogue, Debate and Diversity in the 21st Century || now in print! @QasimRashid

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10 months

My next book - with @Palgrave @Springer_Shop

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Emran El-Badawi

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2 years

As of today, Queens and Prophets is for sale in North America! يسرني ان ابلغكم بان كتابي، ملكات وانبياء، متوفر الآن للبيع في شمال امريكا (الخريطة من منتجات Ruman LLC)

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Emran El-Badawi

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New Book: Qurʾānic Studies: Between History, Theology and Exegesis Ed. by: Mehdi Azaiez & Mokdad Arfa-Mensia W/ Contributions in English, Francais & العربية

Qurʾānic Studies

Over the last twenty years, the rise of Qur'anic studies has been one of the most remarkable developments within the wider framework of Islamic scholarship. This evolution can be viewed from three...

www.degruyter.com

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Nothing typifies the relationship between Syriac and the Qur’an quite like PARADISE. But why? What is the connection between Qur’anic paradise (جنة/فردوس) and Syriac Christian paradise (ܓܢܬܐ)?

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6 years

I’m happy to announce the release of A Qur’ānic Apocalypse, by award winning author Michel Cuypers, the first book published by @iqsaweb !

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5 years

Did you know??? "The [Qur'an] declares that its believing audience – the very first community of the Qur’an – was not Muslim, nor Arab, nor one religion. It states, rather... @OneworldNews @iqsaweb

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4 years

@_SJPeace_ Call, fire and imprison! 😡

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Emran El-Badawi

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7 months

Congratulations to my sister Eman El-Badawi, new Mayor of Cranbury, NJ & 1st Egyptian/Muslim American Mayor of New Jersey! Sworn in by Assemblywoman Dr. @SadafJaffer (1st Muslim woman mayor in the US!) Accompanied by husband Dr. Omar Mobin-Uddin @CAIRNational @Arab_America

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🇺🇸Congratulations to Eman El-Badawi as she is sworn in by Assemblywoman @sadafjaffer as Mayor of Cranbury, NJ! First Muslim Mayor in Cranbury & First Egyptian Mayor in NJ ! #Cranbury #NJ #EmanElBadawi #Mayor #MayorElBadawi #MuslimMayor #InspirationalWoman #Muslim #Egyptian

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“The Prophet Muhammad has been represented in Islamic paintings since the 13th century… art historians such as my colleagues and me, both Muslim and non-Muslim, study & teach these images regularly. They form part of the standard survey of Islamic art”

Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad are an important piece of history – here’s why art...

An art historian describes the two historical representations of Prophet Muhammad that led to a controversy at Hamline University.

theconversation.com

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Emran El-Badawi

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5 years

"Orientalism failed to identify with human experience, failed also to see it as human experience.” If the “global war on terror” has taught us anything over the last seventeen years and more, it is that the road to barbarism begins with this failure"

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Emran El-Badawi

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3 years

Decades of intense academic study of the Qur'an have ensured that we are not limited to the perspectives of 'medieval Islamic tradition. Here is my latest article on "Readings of the Qur’an from outside the tradition"

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3 years

"Archaeologists say foundations excavated in Tiberias are of a mosque built in about AD670"

Remnants of mosque from earliest decades of Islam found in Israel

Archaeologists say foundations excavated in Tiberias are of a mosque built in about AD670

www.theguardian.com

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9 months

10,000 civilians in 4 weeks!

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5 years

So what was Fazlur Rahman’s problem between the Qur’an & medieval Islamic Tradition? We discussed this in our first class back this fall, while reading his “Islam and Modernity: transformation of an intellectual tradition” Here goes!

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Did you know the final ARABIAN GODDESS WAS BLACK? Read the finale: "Destruction of al-‘Uzza" (Part 3/3) Check it out!

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I had the honor of speaking about Islamic Diversity & Communities of the Qur’an at #jalsausa @alislam @Ahmadiyya the oldest Islamic annual convention in the USA @UH_News @uhclass @iqsaweb

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@_SJPeace_ These men did this police officer favor. Private citizens keeping a young man (a cop!) out of trouble!

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8 years

Tonight #BernieSanders put his country before himself at #DNCinPHL #DemsInPhilly

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Emran El-Badawi

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5 years

I visited the @Princeton University Chapel this week. Among its stunning iconography is this window featuring the Persian Arabic philosopher & physician, Zakariyya al-Razi d. 925 CE & his magnum opus, Kitab al-hawi fi al-tibb (comprehensive study of medicine)—so cool!

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يستخدم د هيثم صدقي علم ستيمولوجي والاحتمالية لتأسيس "خطاب شفهي حي" للقراءات يعود إلى زمن تدوين القرآن Dr. Hythem Sidky uses stemmology & probability to establish "living oral tradition" of qira'at back to canonization w/fascinating visuals! #IQSA2020 #sblaar2020 @therealsidky

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Why is Suras Al-Falaq & Al-Nas (Q 113,114) so utterly different than the rest of the Qur’an & excluded by Ibn Masud? I propose a possible connection to 4th C Greco-Egyptian amulet from Beirut & Arabs in Jordan/Syria. #AARSBL23 #iqsa2023

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اقدم مخطوطة للقرآن (مصحف صنعاء) من خلال صور ابيض اسود و جودة عالية و فوق البنفسجي The Sana’a palimpsest is the oldest Quran manuscript in the world, he shown in BnW, HQ and UV #IQSA2018 #IQSA18 @iqsaweb with Dr M Goudarzi

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My next book manuscript has been submitted! @OneworldNews @iqsaweb @DrArjana @AARWeb @rezaaslan @mwecker @JEKever @UH_News @IslamScienceNet @MuslimIQ @Ahmadiyya @BahaiUS @CAIRHouston @QuranWiki @islamic @IsmailiGnosis @GabrielSaidR @mizan_project @BoniukInstitute @WACHouston

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3 years

Congratulations to my sister Eman El-Badawi who won her election to become the first American of Arab, Muslim origin and woman of color on the township committee of Cranbury, New Jersey. حازت أختي على اغلبية الاصوات لتحصل على كرسي في مجلس بلدية كرانبيري في ولاية نيو جرسي USA

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1 year

Perpetually raining destruction. Even after an earthquake. With impunity.

Joshua Landis

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Israel bombs Damascus, #Syria . This is Mazraa, neighborhood where I lived for a year.

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More on that in the Destruction of al-‘Uzza (Part 2)…& my upcoming book on female power in late antique Arabia. See you all later!

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"القدس فلسطينية عربية إسلامية" — محمد عساف في الولايات المتحدة / @MohammedAssaf89 declares “Jerusalem is a Palestinian city” in Houston TX

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The sky above Medina, Arabia in summer 610 CE by Saqib Hussain !

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4 years

“coffee was first discovered in the Islamic world, in fifteenth-century Ethiopia to be precise, and first used by Sufi Muslims in Yemen as an aid for prayer and worship “

The Islamic History of Coffee

Why is there always one crucial historical fact left out of the story?

www.notesfromthemargins.com

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3 years

New Book: A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook By Stephen J. Shoemaker

A Prophet Has Appeared

Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic...

www.ucpress.edu

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6 years

The entire Cairo Genizah (1/2 Million documents) has been scanned & uploaded.

From Cairo to the Cloud

The most extraordinary saga of Jewish discovery you’ve never heard of. In 1896, Solomon Schechter entered the sacred storeroom of an ancient synagogue in Cairo and discovered a vast treasure trove of...

www.cairotothecloud.com

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What are the origins of Arabian Jews...Palestine, Babylon, Ethiopia, somewhere else? What traces, if any, did they leave in the Qur’an and medieval Islamic Lit. Check it out! (From my Jewish-Muslim Relations class last week).

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“The Nabataeans were desert-dwelling nomads turned master merchants, controlling the incense and spice trade routes through Arabia and Jordan to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Syria and Mesopotamia.”

Hegra, an Ancient City in Saudi Arabia Untouched for Millennia, Makes Its Public Debut

The archaeological site, now open to tourists, offers clues about the mysterious empire that built it and its more famous sister city of Petra in Jordan

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5 years

Non-canonical readings (قرآت) of the Qur’an with @PhDniX @iqsaweb #IQSA19 #aarsbl2019

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To find out you have to read my book! Queens and Prophets How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam @OneworldNews

Queens and Prophets | Oneworld

‘A genuinely paradigm-shifting work by one of the most exciting and innovative scholars in the field… compelling and powerful…’ Reza Aslan Arab noblewomen of late antiquity were instrumental in...

oneworld-publications.com

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My final & longest mtg was with Prof Christian Robin, renowned expert on Arabian epigraphy, esp South Arabia. His has 200+ publications including Le Judaïsme de l’Arabie Antique. He is now working on a bk about king Abraha (d 556?570?) who shaped 6th C Arabia

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“The reason we don’t know much about them is because we don’t have books or sources written by them that tell us about the way they lived and died and worshipped their gods” — Laïla Nehme

Ancient Saudi Arabian City of Hegra Opens To Public After 2,000 Years

Would you want to visit this incredible ancient city?

mymodernmet.com

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تم وبحمد الله ترجمة كتابي الأول عن القرآن وتقاليد البشارة الآرامية إلى اللغة العربية على يد الدكتور صلاح إدريس My first book on The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions is finally out! @iqsaweb

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On historical study of the Qur’an, Keynote Address by Fred Donner #AARSBL23 #iqsa2023

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Church fathers bemoan worship of al-‘Uzza-Aphrodite by the Arabs. One can appreciate, then, once her most bloodthirsty champion, the Lakhmid king of al-Hirah (made infamous by al-Mundhir III, d. 554), abandoned al-‘Uzza to embrace Christianity.

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Join @RezaAslan , Paula Sanders, Ali Asani, Lien Fina & others at BOOK LAUNCH of COMMUNITIES OF THE QUR'AN: Dialogue, Debate & Diversity in the 21st C. Nov 22 12-1 PM CC-25B (Upper Level E.) @iqsaweb @oneworld @boniuk @AARWeb @SBLsite @NewBooksIslam @ingridmatt @GabrielSaidR

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Full house at the opening of the International Qur’anic Studies Association conference at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London #iqsa2024 @iqsaweb @ismaili_studies @GabrielSaidR @AndrewOco

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RIP Walter Kaegi (1937-2022) It was my honor to study under such a renowned Byzantine historian, learn from his seemingly endless insights (and sense of humor!), as well as enjoy his hospitality. life truly goes by like a blink..

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Just arrived! New Trends in Quranic Studies, Ed. @MunimSirry looks to be an awesome book! @iqsaweb @GabrielSaidR @NewBooksIslam

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This Eid I share the most important page of my next book!

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Keynote address by Ahmad Al-Jallad at #iqsa2024

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“This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in P @lest1ne has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous P @lest1n1an life in P @lest1ne .”

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3 years

Final chapter complete of my book on female power and male prophecy in late antique Arabia! تم وبحمد لله كتابة آخر فصل في كتابي عن سلطة المرأة و نبوة الرجال بين العرب في أواخر العصور القديمة

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3 years

#HappyEaster Did you know the first Roman Emperor was Arab, and that he celebrated Easter? Check it out!

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Did you know the medieval Church commemorated their dead in Muslim & Jewish languages? In 1148 Anna, mother of Norman priest Grisanto, died. The inscription crafted in her memory is a masterpiece of religious tolerance, racial diversity & high culture. Photos: Valerie Gonzalez

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Emran El-Badawi

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محاضرة مثيرة حول أهمية مناهج دراسة الأخبار والحديث من ناحية، وجدل حول ظهور القرآن من خلال نص المخطوطات أم الرواية Fred Donner discusses usefulness of Hadith isnad-cum-matn analysis but debates Qur'anic transmission in textually vs. orally based on Mss (w/h/t @PhDniX ) #IQSA2020

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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What happened to Jews & Muslims who fled the Spanish Inquisition 1492? Did they leave any traces behind in Spanish or European cultures? (from my Jewish-Muslim relations course this week)

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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Happy to announce my upcoming book is under contract and will appear with @OneworldNews Queens and Prophets: The Making of Late Antique Arabia Interested in reading? Sample this thread:

Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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I am writing about Zenobia (Aram. batzabay), Empress of the East (d. ca. 274), and the outcast church father, Paul of Samosata (d. 275). They form a completely new link between Roman Arabia and Muhammad’s Arabia. Check it out!

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Emran El-Badawi

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and the Life of Sabrisho‘ told by Peter the Solitary (d. after 604). They condemn the chief pagan al-‘Uzza as a demon, idol & star. King al-Nu‘man toppled or melted down an opulent golden statue of al-‘Uzza in the form of Aphrodite & surrendered it to the church in repentance.

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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Why is it important to study Culture, Religion, Language, Texts, and various disciplines in the Humanities? I had to share with you an email from one of my finest students in Qur'an as Literature. I am humbled. Meanwhile we need to build these bridges!

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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New Book: Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age A Sourcebook by Nimrod Hurvitz (Editor), Christian C. Sahner (Editor), Uriel Simonsohn (Editor), Luke Yarbrough (Editor) @ucpress

Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under their...

www.ucpress.edu

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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New Book: Structural Dividers in the Qur'an By Marianna Klar @routledgebooks @iqsaweb

Structural Dividers in the Qur'an

This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur’anic surahs. Recent academic studies of the Qur’an have taken an increasing...

www.routledge.com

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Emran El-Badawi

@emrane

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NEW BOOK: In Search of Ali Ibn Abi Talib's Codex: History and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qur'an, by Seyfeddin Kara @iqsaweb

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Emran El-Badawi

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New Book: The Devotional Qur’an - Beloved Surahs and Verses Translated by Shawkat M. Toorawa @iqsaweb

The Devotional Qur’an

A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur’anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over Muslim de...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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