Islam_Origins

There is a new book out on the origins of Islam. It is called: Qur'anic Geography. Independent

I observe the following hadith from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: "There is no sura revealed in

Re Harun al-Rashid Al-Tabari in his history ends each year (with a few exceptions) with a brief

I have just observed that in Fluegel's edition of the Qur'an ayats 22 and 23 of surat 72 were

I have constructed a database of all the chains of precedent in the Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas. I used

On May 4, 12:33 pm, dkleine...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a strong intuition that the latter 32

I think it might be useful to outline my general position about the early days of Islam: It seems to

One of the key facts about Abu Hurayra is the identification and separation, if possible, of the

Abu Hurayra is famous, or perhaps the word is notorious, as being the narrator credited with a very

I have been reading material on the Islamic Awareness web site and I have a mixed reaction. Islamic

I have made a data base of all the isnads in al-Bukhari that have Abu Hurayra as first narrator. It

I observe that somebody preceded me in uncovering the little collection of hadiths from Abu Hurayra

Ahl-al-Bayt (`AS): Its Meaning and Origin Direct Link: http://almujtaba.com/articles/ahlulbayt/000555

Different passages in the Qur'an belong to different categories of discourse. One of these

I posted this to SRI and meant to cross-post but forgot. Having not gotten any response to my query

AlMujtaba Home Page wrote: > Ali: The Voice of Human Justice Direct Link: I hope that this kind of

One of the ways that people use to differentiate between Madinan and Makkan surats is how "wordy

AlMujtaba Home Page wrote: Probably automatically - but why complain. This is a good example of

I think the analysis of Surat 98 I presented is confusing. Here is another treatment of the same

It is possible that the more-or-less historic man called Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr who disputed the

One thing that Qur'anic studies needs is more detailed word studies on the Qur'an. The "

We will probably never know when permanent residence in what is now Makka began. It is my

For a disucssion of the Sahifah of Hammam ibn Munabbih visit pages.sbcglobal.net/zimriel/Islam/hammam

In my opinion history cannot pretend to be fact. I define history as an artful reconstruction of what

Many Muslims appear to feel that any research on the origins of Islam is an attack on Islam. In my

The Qur'an would seem to be a natural object of study for corpus linguistics. But, so far as I

I have collected some statistics about the narrators in the hadiths in Malik's Muwatta. I had

The poetry in Ibn Ishaq gets no respect. I cannot read Arabic well enough to appreciate the poetry,

I assume the reader knows the story about the massacre of the Jewish tribe of the Banu Qurayza at

The 98th Surat (AL BYN@) of the Qura'an is mildly interesting as a late (Madinan - proved by the