Marijn van Putten
Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer @team18k
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I've been interested recently by the question of where the asseverative particle la- in Quranic sentences is supposed to go. This is more complex than one would think. https://t.co...
If you look in a printed muṣḥaf today, and you're familiar with modern Arabic orthography, you will immediately be struck that many of the word are spelled rather strangely, and no...
Last year I was asked to give a talk at the NISIS Autumn School about the textual history of the Quran. Here's a thread summarizing the points of that presentation. Specifically th...
I made some diagrams of al-Dānī's ʾisnāds to the seven eponymous readers in the Taysīr. I thought it'd be nice to go through them, and give a couple of comments about them. So here...
A summary thread of Hythem Sidky's new article: "Consonantal Dotting and the Oral Quran". I don't usually thread's on other people's publications, but this article is really impor...
A little chart I made that tries illustrate what kinds of different readings there are. There are two main categories: 1. Uthmanic readings (which follow the Uthmanic text) 2. Non-...
What renders a qirāʾah (Quranic reading tradition) sound, and what renders it šāḏḏ (anomalous). The Islamic science of qirāʾāt has had a clear answer to this question for centuries...
@Nightey04386956 @jricole @shahanSean Poetry: absolutely. Shoemaker uses the "veda elephant in the room" to argue that the pre-islamic poetry are Abbasid era recompositions that ha...
@jricole @shahanSean There's a real issue with the vedic corpus that historians seem to not quite grasp, and is really notable to linguists... shoemaker in his latest book comments...
@bnuyaminim @Jorrit_Kelder @BartFunnekotter @nrc Met mijn voeten in zowel taalkunde en quranic studies/geschiedenisachtige dingen met mijn onderzoek verbaas ik mijn geregeld over h...
@Nightey04386956 @shahanSean I would count my own work, especially my Grace of God article, to be part of that trend. But I would also say the ways the potential ways that the Isna...
The Basran reciter Sallām (teacher of the canonical Yaʿqūb) has an interesting variant reading at Q6:142. Instead of the quran admonishing people not to follow the footsteps of Sat...