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1/ (Revised) thread on ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in medieval Muslim memory. The 19 and 21 of Ramadan holds special significance for Shiʿi Muslims, marking the death of ʿAlī in

The authentic-chasing camp mischaracterise the medieval Muslim debates on epistemological certainty, apodictic knowledge, and historical truth. The ḥadīth scholars of early Islam understood the nuances of this debate -- unlike

I finished editing this wonderful and short treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī on the Faith of Pharaoh. A short thread on the centuries-old problem in medieval Islam. Did Pharaoh die

There's renewed interest in ʿIlm al-Kalām al-Jadīd (علم الكلام الجديد) among academic colleagues. While I am in awe of the medieval masters and their penetrating insights in a range of

1/al-Kāfī is a ḥadīth compendium held in high regard in Shiʿism. Its status in Shiʿi Islam is comparable to Bukhārī in Sunni Islam. Regrettably, Kāfī is insufficiently studied in Arabic,

1/The author, @Ed_Husain, made a string of errors and specious arguments in this piece. The analysis of medieval Islamic history and philosophy on display is not only outdated, but quite

1/Following up on an interesting point raised by Jonathan AC Brown about Avicenna & wine-drinking, I'd like to offer a few cursory remarks. One: Avicenna drank wine. His penchant for

1/The N-Poem (نونيات) is a genre of medieval Arabic literature in the form of a lyrical stanza. A favourite of mine is that of al-Qaḥṭānī al-Andalusī (d. 10th C). The

1/Next month I start my fellowship at Cambridge University. The project is about the quranic "pagans," picking up where Patricia Crone left off. In the main I will investigate the

Long before Christoph Luxenberg, medieval Muslim authorities compiled lists of foreign vocabularies in the Quran. The Quran contains words from Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Turkic, Nabatean, Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and

(1) In 1978 John Wansborough published his Sectarian Milieu, arguing that most of Quranic material characterise a text that crystallised over 2 centuries, and largely outside confines of Arabia. To

Can Muslims smoke while keeping the fast in #Ramadan ? A thread on the legal debates around smoking, including shisha, during the #RamadanKareem2019 In Shi’i legal discussions, debates around smoking