Marijn van Putten
Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer @team18k
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Ik ben blij met dit artikel, maar vind persoonlijk het beeld dat Singor schetst erg problematisch, en gebaseerd op erg tendentieus bewijs. Dit is bovendien een plek waar mijn studi...
@HamzzaAhmed2 @azforeman @Nawwaf_Saleem @zielstrebig06 @AlsulaimanAbd Yeah I don't think that concept existed. They had a teacher, they had other teachers, and part of what they di...
@kwo_vadis @azforeman @Nawwaf_Saleem @zielstrebig06 @AlsulaimanAbd I need an editor, but I don't actually have one.
@kwo_vadis @azforeman @Nawwaf_Saleem @zielstrebig06 @AlsulaimanAbd I think the standard text was written in a scribal workshop. As the tradition suggests. The fact that our only no...
@Nightey04386956 Big questions. All difficult to answer. But a couple of things: Yes I think his highborn status plays a role. It seems that many of his closest companions were lit...
The replies gave a couple of different answers that are all part of the bigger picture. Mini-thread on what's going on. First it should be said that the Uthmanic rasm has الظنونا,...
@ammassinz @regularNAME_ @LlastResort @xruiztru It is not "très simple", sorry. There are issues that need to be addressed to make a convincing etymology in a methodical and lingui...
@SumptuousSadio @shahanSean @Har67280687Hugh @AlanSmith8859 @a_el_shamsy @DrJavadTHashmi @IslamicOrigins I'm not at all putting more weight on external sources. You are putting mor...
@omalam @BholeVenator @therealignis @AlanSmith8859 @bin_ibadh Fair enough, this is also definitely why there is room for things to turn out different. As to Safaitic: I'm not sayi...
@IslamicOrigins @Nightey04386956 Well a good example of correction is Ibn Wahb's Hadith collection, which is one of our earliest literary Arabic documents that we have. It's writte...
How often do the canonical Quranic reading traditions differ between one another? You sometimes see the number '700' thrown around, which would mean less than 1% of the words are d...
@commie_sinbad This would make more sense as a separate tweet rather than a reply to this thread. :-) It's outside of my expertise (and it is also outside of his). Hythem Sidky wh...