to add on to this list (and article), it is good to read this article written in 2009 by Shaykh Husain Kadodia (from South Africa), explaining what the state of commercial publishing was like with regards to Islamic texts, their verification and the cutting of corners:

https://attahawi.com/2009/05/12/understanding-arabic-book-publications-an-enlightening-conversation-with-shaykh-husain-kadodia/

It is for this reason that I disagree with those who say copyright is not applicable in Islamic law (based on this blatant plagiarism).

#IslamicStudies #arabic

For those in the #IslamicStudies field, the following article about the best publishers and editors of Islamic texts in #Arabic will be useful when seeking to purchase copies of various textbooks/texts:

https://islamclass.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/the-best-editions-of-arabic-books/

It is astonishing how many books on the #medieval shari`a address socio-legal questions seemingly only on the basis of normative texts. The result is drastically different intuitions about "what really happened" in law and society, with very little appeal to descriptive evidence. Of course we don't have nearly enough evidence, I know! But we do have some (I think of books by Kristen Stilt and by Lev Weitz as positive examples here), and it could be used more.

#Sharia #IslamicStudies

Now that I'm back in the semester, more teaching will appear, and less text editing.

It always surprises me how textbooks that give excerpts of the Qur'an give such a narrow range of excerpts. (And so predictably, either ethical exhortations to care for the vulnerable or the interreligious polemics, depending on the textbook author's political leanings.) The Qur'an is a very diverse book! I had to create my own selection to show some greater breadth.

What's my teaching goal? Mostly I want students to realize the Qur'an is complex and that before they say, "Well the Qur'an says X" they should stop and read not just an isolated verse or two, and ideally they should engage with the #tafsir (commentary) tradition. I teach against soundbites.

#Islam #Quran #teaching #histodons #IslamicStudies

#introduction

As new people join and if you are looking for like-minded people to engage in, I am Mohamed and I am interested in the following topics:

#islam
#muslim
#linguistics
#arabic
#translation
#Islamicstudies
#NLP
#python
#nim

If you are interested in any of the hashtags above, follow me (and I will follow back if you have a bio too).

I am also the founder of:

https://www.dragomen.org/

A project dedicated to improving Classical Arabic and Islamic Studies.

I really enjoyed Zachary V. Wright's "Realizing Islam" and recommend it to anyone doing research on the early modern period (especially in North Africa) - not only on #Sufism, but on #intellectualhistory and #religion in general.

You can read my short review here: https://readingreligion.org/9781469660820

#islamicstudies #sufistudies #tijaniyya

Nicolai #Sinai's "Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary" (Princeton, 2023) is partially accessible via Google Books. #IslamicStudies #QuranicStudies

#IslamicStudies

I have an issue w.r.t finding an authentic copy of Tafsir at-Tabari that is digitized.

Shamela has 2 copies:

https://shamela.ws/book/43/126
https://shamela.ws/book/7798/179

But both copies have mistakes in comparison to this PDF on archive:

https://archive.org/details/TafsirTabariTurki/

I only reviewed a small piece (basmala) and found 2-3 word errors that alter the meaning. I also cannot tell if the PDF is right or the Shamela versions.

Any guidance on this?

Newly published book, edited by Guillaume Dye:

Dye (Guillaume) ed., Early Islam : The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity ?, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, ("Problèmes d’histoire des religions"), 2023, 282 p. ISBN 978-2-8004-1814-8

Feel free to visit Mehdi Azaiez's excellent personal website for ToC and many more news and events on Early Islam: https://www.mehdi-azaiez.org/?lang=en

#IslamicStudies #Quran #LateAntiquity

#Coran #LeMonde #IslamicStudies

Entretien avec Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi. 🔒

https://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-des-religions/article/2023/01/22/pendant-les-premiers-siecles-de-l-islam-il-existait-plusieurs-versions-du-coran_6158838_6038514.html

Illustrations from the magazine "L'Illustration" for the Exposition coloniale internationale 1931 in Paris.

This issue of the magazine is a great resource that I found in our library and will discuss with my students tomorrow in the seminar on the history of Morocco.

@jonathanwyrtzen has based his chapter 2 in "Making Morocco" on the structure of the Moroccan pavilion - very interesting reading, very well done! Looking forward to the discussion in the seminar!

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501704253/html?lang=de

@histodons @islamicstudies #islamicstudies #colonialhistory #moroccanhistory #frenchhistory

Illustrations from the magazine "L'Illustration" for the Exposition coloniale internationale 1931 in Paris.

This issue of the magazine is a great resource that I found in our library and will discuss with my students tomorrow in the seminar on the history of Morocco.

@jonathanwyrtzen has based his chapter 2 in "Making Morocco" on the structure of the Moroccan pavilion - very interesting reading, very well done! Looking forward to the discussion in the seminar!

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501704253/html?lang=de

@histodons @islamicstudies #islamicstudies #colonialhistory #moroccanhistory #frenchhistory

PhD position at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in #Muenster, Germany

PhD project: "Arabic-Ottoman translations of works of Qurʾanic exegesis (Tafsīr) as an expression of the inner-Islamic transfer of knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1400–1750"

Deadline for applications: 9th February 2023

Affiliation with the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Processes in the Eastern #Mediterranean (1400–1750)

https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/call/index.html

#quranicstudies #islamicstudies #translapt #arabic #persian #turkish #ottoman @islamicstudies @religion @phdlife @phdstudents

CC @gloqur

#introduction I am Associate Prof of Islamic Studies at the University of Nottingham and currently Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies (through summer 2024). I work on postclassical Islamic intellectual history—mainly the theology of Ibn Taymiyya and his heirs—and Christian-Muslim Relations. I also have interest in Salafism and the modern Arab Middle East. I am here to connect with fellow scholars. #islamicHistory #IslamicStudies #IbnTaymiyya #Salafism #Syria #Lebanon #Beirut #Egypt #Cairo

Welcome to Professor @jonhoover, a well-known expert in @islamicstudies, here in the Fediverse.

cc @religion
#islamicstudies #quranicstudies #arabic

I've redeployed an Islamic academic instance at:

https://beta.dragomen.org

For anyone involved in #Islamicstudies

#islam #muslim

12 PhD positions in #IslamicStudies in #Sweden - New Graduate School for Islamic Studies
https://lnu.se/en/research/PhD-studies/religion/graduate-school-in-islamic-studies/

@religion

https://twitter.com/RyadUmar/status/1612145524735451138

#oneabstractaday #justpublished

The diversity of #modernities that can be observed in our world is linked to the claim of living in a global #modernity, in a world society. The book underpins this claim with numerous excursions into Islamic history. It criticises the view that #modernisation can be equated with westernisation and considers different projects of specifically Islamic modernities as integral parts of world society.

From this perspective, the study contributes to the "provincialisation" of European history in contemporary social scientific thought. Contrary to the theories of #postcolonialism associated with the call for the provincialisation of Europe, however, this book adheres to essential traditions of classical sociology. It thus aims to make a contribution to the social theoretical discussion on modernity.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-39954-2

@islamicstudies @sociology #globalhistory #islamicstudies #sociology

12 PhD positions in Islamic Studies in #Sweden

In December 2022, the Swedish Research Council granted SEK 24.8 million in partial funding for salaries for doctoral students in a new graduate school in Islamic studies.

Linnaeus University coordinates the graduate school, in which also Lund University, University of Gothenburg, Stockholm University, Södertörn University, Uppsala University, and Umeå University take part as equal parties. Doctoral students within the graduate school will be admitted to one of these universities.

Depending on the higher education institution, the doctoral students will be admitted within one of the following research subjects: Religious Studies, History of Religions, Subject Didactics and Systematic Theology.

https://lnu.se/en/research/PhD-studies/religion/graduate-school-in-islamic-studies/

@islamicstudies @phdlife @religiousstudies

#islamicstudies

#oneabstractaday

This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law.

Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/doubt-in-islamic-law/3F33884C01782919E73DC857A504D434#fndtn-information

@islamicstudies #islamicstudies #islamiclaw #evidence #doubt #truth