Marijn van Putten
Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer @team18k
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@arabic_bad @A70717948 @ExMuslimsMN @RamonIHarvey @DrJavadTHashmi Nope absolutely not! There were four master copies of the Uthmanic text made, sent to Kufa, Basra, Syria and one s...
@arabic_bad @A70717948 @ExMuslimsMN @RamonIHarvey @DrJavadTHashmi People just have a very twisted idea of what an "oral tradition" entails. The fact that al-Kisāʾī's reading looks...
This thread by Bayt Al Fann is doing the rounds about the early collection of the Quran. It presents the traditionally accepted Islamic narrative. But how does modern scholarship t...
The Quran was canonized around the year 650. After this standard was established, the text underwent no real changes. Any manuscript is word-by-word identical to the other, save fo...
"How many variants are there in the Qirāʾāt?" is a question I get sometimes. Some spectacular numbers float around on the interner, ranging from a mere 700 to over 90.000 (distribu...
Now that my monograph that I've worked on for the past years is finally out (and free for anyone to download!: https://t.co/rF76Sv0UZV). I thought it would be nice to do a series o...
A strange bit of misinformed apologetics has been making the rounds on Twitter that claims the Dead Sea Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaª) (Is. 42:1) mentions ʾAḥmad (traditionally understood...
Some of the controversy about @MMetaphysician feeling not feeling he was the right person to defend the grammar of the Quran, appeared on my timeline after this conversation. http...
Sūrat Maryam (Q19) is well-known among scholars of the Quran for having a highly conspicuous passage (https://t.co/y4qok5xeHw) which must be an interpolation. The question however...
The name of God in the Quran is Aḷḷāh, that much is clear. We also know that the Quran explicitly equates its God with the God the Christians and Jews follow. Today Arabic Christia...
The consonantal dotting of the Arabic script is something about which quite a bit of confusion exists, from its origins, application in manuscripts, quranic or otherwise and finall...
The لا lām-ʾalif is an interesting letter of the Arabic alphabet, due to its shape, it is not always clear which part is the lām and which one is the ʾalif. In this series of: "ort...