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In the Quran, God is referred to in three places (Q2:255; Q3:2; Q20:111) as al-ḥayy al-qayyūm "The Living, The All-Sustaining". ʿUmar ibn al-Ḫaṭṭāb , the second Islamic caliph, is attributed

In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḫārī there is an interesting Hadith the claims that the prophet would have prolonged recitation, and an example is given, saying he would prolong bismi llāāh, al-raḥmāān, al-raḥīīm.https://sunnah.com/bukha

I've been reading through the long-awaited new book by Shady Nasser "The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān".There is a lot of marginal transmissions of readings that surprised me, but Šuʿbah

There are several letters of the prophet to several heads of state, which have been recorded in literary sources.There are some documents out there, which are said to be the

One of the canonical readers of the Quran, Ḥamzah, often goes by the name Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt "Ḥamzah the oil salesman". But where did he get that name from?al-ʿAskarī (d. 382

The tenth century Jewish scholar Saadya Gaon is a central figure who established the literary standard of Judeo-Arabic writing with his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible into Arabic. A

So let's talk some more Classical Arabic orthography! Vocalisation. People who learn to read Arabic today generally learn there are three vowel signs: fatḥah, ḍammah, kasra. Write them twice for

So now we've talked about the establishment of the canon of Quranic recitation, some questions arose about pre-Uthmanic recitations and written forms of the Quran arose. What were they like,

Here's a very nice infographic on the development of the canonization of the Quran by @NaqadStudies. In the comments an interesting discussion developed on what "Semi-canonical Qurans" means and how

The @britishlibrary has digitized an absolute treasure trove of manuscripts from Djenné, Mali. This collection contains mostly Arabic manuscripts, generally written in the gorgeous Malinese substyle of the Maghrebi script.One

Arabic is often called Luġat al-Ḍād "the language of the Ḍād". Clearly indicating that this language was considered unique specifically for its pronunciation of this letter. But how was it