Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social

Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at @nccu1927 | DPhil from @UniOfOxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia

[Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social @IslamicOrigins]

*MASTER THREAD*

A catalogue of all of my threads on Hadith, early Islamic history, and related matters.

[Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social @IslamicOrigins]

The talk explores an aspect of the research that subsequently appeared in part one of my JIQSA series on the canonization of the Qur’an, available here:
https://t.co/QbqKq30VbH

[Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social @IslamicOrigins]

“The Book of the Cow: A Modern Myth of a Proto-Qur’an” [TALK]
https://t.co/KPVvsnm3dn

[Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social @IslamicOrigins]

A recording of a talk that I gave last year for the Sufi Studies Network last year. The SSN is part of the Ibn Arabi Interreligious Research Initiative at my old alma mater, Monash University:
https://t.co/Gkvs7v6itR

[Ahmad Qadri @the_qadrii]

https://t.co/LH0271WKrN

Enjoyed hosting @HistPhilosophy on our @oasis_wisdom channel. We covered topics like the utility of philosophy, whether miracles are believable and the sincerity of al-Ghazali. Also, see till the end if Adamson puts Ibn Taymiyyah in his top 10 thinkers.

[Hasan Adnan @Hasan6747]

Here are some of the scheduled talks for the upcoming Paganism in Late Antique Arabia: Dead or Alive at the Rise of Islam? Workshop at Pembroke College, University of Oxford @ccsahner

[chonkshonk @chonkshonk1]

New study by Joshua Little on methods for reaching beyond the common link in hadith.

Case study on a cluster of hadith surrounding Q 5:3. The CL died c. 738, but his was already a heavily elaborated version of a hadith that emerged in the early 8th century.

[Mr. Terron Poole @Terodotus]

📚 In this conversation with Dr. Harry Munt, we look at the overlooked world of local history writing in early Islam and what it reveals about scholarly authority, regional identity, collective memory, and the formation of the ulama.

[Meleteon @Meleteon]

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[Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social @IslamicOrigins]

Comments by @OborneTweets (on @DoubleDownNews) on the latest wave of pro-imperialist whitewashing, propaganda, and bias in the UK media.

I expect it; yet somehow, I'm still amazed by the brazenness when I see the side-by-side comparison of headlines.

https://t.co/iE5ubuuLBL

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

It’s either going to be very good or terribly bad. I can’t tell yet. I do know one thing: it will be offensive—that’s why I preface with the Book of James. Anyhow, 6200 words. Maybe another 4000 words before I decide to call it a day and submit.

[May Shaddel @MayShaddel]

Problematising the notion of 'origin', in this article Ahmad Al-Jallad takes issue with Suleyman Dost's over-emphasis on South Arabia as a source of the Quran's religious vocabulary, argues for borrowings of indigenous Arabian concepts & terms by the Quran
https://t.co/3ruK5xN54b

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

They bombed “freedom tower” to free us.

[Centre for Islamic Thought and History @lu_cith]

Registration is now open! Please apply!

Graduate School of Islamic Humanities: Approaches to the Study of Islam

To be held in Leiden, Netherlands.
13-17 July 2026

Open to all PhD candidates in Islamic studies and early career scholars.

[May Shaddel @MayShaddel]

This paper presents an edition and study of five early Abbasid monumental inscriptions from Mecca. Comparing the contents of three of these inscriptions which are from the Masǧid al‐Ḥarām to juridical discussions of pilgrimage rites, it argues that,
https://t.co/02r0FZ5F4j

[Mr. Terron Poole @Terodotus]

Real Talk interview with Dr. Sulayman Dost on his recent publication, scheduled for March 30 on Sképsislamica 🎙️📚✨

[Marijn van Putten @PhDniX]

New Open Access article: Finding Dūrī: Communal Transmission of Abū ʿAmr among the People of ʿIrāq

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The proofs still had the title's pun working in Spanish, but between final proofs and publication someone who didn't get it, changed it. :-(

https://t.co/54zkUo4zmY

[chonkshonk @chonkshonk1]

Reminder to everybody that we have a megapost up on r/AcademicQuran collecting ~40 contemporary references showing that the consensus in academia is that Muhammad was a historical figure. https://t.co/R9qBgNHw53

[Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ @abhistoria]

📣 Call for Papers!

Two-day conference

The Sage of Medina: The Thought, Life, and Teachings of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq.

📍Leiden University, Netherlands
📆: 2-3 December 2026
Abstract deadline: 15 April 2026 https://t.co/ZR3octptjz

[Marijn van Putten @PhDniX]

So my translations of al-Dani's Taysir is out! So what is this text about?

It is a description of seven canonical reading traditions of the Quran authored by the Andalusi polymath ʾAbū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Saʿīd al-Dānī (371/981–444/1053).

[Elon ⚪ @hadithworks]

Ghazali (d. 1111) records an "Isra'iliyyat" report about a pious believer learning that his companion in heaven will be a seemingly "simple" person. The believer sets out to find this person & figure out why the person is so special

Jewish variants of this report are well known