In Midrash Tehillim 1.10, Rabbi Chiya states the opinion that God prevented Noah from siring a child who would be a descendant of the generation of the flood and would therefore die with them. This seems to call to mind the story of Noah’s lost son in the Quran (Q 11:36-49):

An interesting interplay of orality and written transmission of the Quran that I recently ran into going through the Taysīr, at Q37:123 al-Dānī has a curious statement about the recitation of وان الياس... let's dive in!

Post by @chonkshonk.bsky.social featuring Imar Koutchoukali's observations on the development of henotheism in First - 3rd century CE Arabia on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history: www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

Post by @chonkshonk.bsky.social chronicling academic views regarding the Quran's knowledge of earlier religious texts in its elliptical style on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history: www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

Ibn Muǧāhid is widely regarded as the canonizer of the seven reading traditions, but if you actually look at the ʾIsnāds through which people trace the readings he barely visible. How come? 🧵

NEW PUBLICATION: I was asked to write for the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān the entry on Solecisms in the Qurʾān. I used the opportunity to talk about something other than the same tired old verses (Q4:162; Q6:70; Q20:63) doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_EQO_EQCOM_062347

Joshua Little on where biographical information in rijal literature comes from islamicorigins.com/revisiting-t...

Muriel Debié's arguments for a 6th century dating of the Song of Alexander (page numbers are lacking, but this begins at the section entitled "the dating and environment of composition in this text")

Similarities and differences between Muslim and Mormon views on scripture. (Grant Underwood, "The Prophetic Legacy in Islam and Mormonism" in New Perspectives in Mormon Studies, University of Oklahoma Press 2013, pp. 104–106)

Important new addition to the r/AcademicQuran bibliographies—containing popular videos related to the field, important PhD theses, notable lectures posted online, and some classic publications in the history of the field. new.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

This is gonna be a good read bsky.app/profile/ghaf...

Are people familiar with Sebastian Brock? Probably one of the most prolific historians alive right now, and much of that effort going into studying the Syriac tradition. It's remarkable.

Rurouni shares five must-read works about Syriac Christianity www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

Fascinating. bsky.app/profile/adam...

It looks like Volume 9 of the Journal of International Quranic Studies Association is finally fully out: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

We're getting more posts by Joshua Little and Im here for it bsky.app/profile/isla...

If you are into academic Islamic/Quranic studies, you owe it to yourself to follow @chonkshonk.bsky.social . He's my partner in crime on r/AcademicQuran and always has a lot of excellent insights and reblogs cool stuff. Follow him, or I'm going to go to your house and make you feel unsafe. Loljk

Legal passages in the Quran and their pre-Islamic parallels. (Joseph Lowry, "Quranic Law and Its ‘Biblical’ Intertexts", Appendix)

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