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What does c14 dating tell us about the Qur'an?

Let's focus on the oldest carbon-dated exemplars, using the most rigorous c14 data.

[Hasnain Mirza @HasnainWizard]

Dr. Zakir Naik is not first person to theorize that Prophet Muhammad is mentioned in Buddhist scriptures.

Cousin of Emperor Babur & ruler of Kashmir in 16th century i.e Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat in Tarikh-i-Rashidi also believed that Buddha had predicted coming of Muhammad.

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What does c14 dating tell us about the Qur'an?

Let's focus on the oldest carbon-dated exemplars, using the most rigorous c14 data.

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Currently diagramming Von Sivers' reconstruction of the religious trends that led to the monotheism of the Arab Kingdom, which eventually led to Islam.

https://t.co/mHdeCGNswL

[Maestro (Al-Kalam.fr) @OrpheeDuNeoulf]

À paraitre : probablement l'un des ouvrages les plus importants de la décennie sur la question des origines de l'islam.

📖 Peter von Sivers, "Islamic Origins: Inhereting the Late Antique Tradition".

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@serbiaireland please unblock @mattcrotts 🙏 Account was promoting your work but was locked, so it looked the same as an account that had blocked you

[Ramon Harvey @RamonIHarvey]

Another excellent new title in Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology. In Before the Qur’an, Süleyman Dost brings extensive contemporary research on pre-Islamic Arabian rock inscriptions into conversation with the Qur’an to explore the scripture’s historical context. https://t.co/OGSUYSUuFK

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#NewPublication
Explorations in Islamic Archaeology
Material Culture, Settlements, and Landscapes from the Mediterranean to Western Asia
eds. Joanita Vroom, Hagit Nol. Brepols 2025
Front Matter PDF
https://t.co/8o5IzQusS3
https://t.co/roEWPgf9Wv

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Mughal and modern Turkish camel wrestling

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thinking bout that camel chic

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A fantastic tour de force. This word isn’t attested in the epigraphy of North Arabia (yet), but let’s see what future finds reveal …

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When experts refer to 'the origins of Islam,' they really do mean origins in the plural.

The road to Islam takes centuries: the amalgamation of innumerable paths, trails, and highways from Ethiopia to Yemen to Persia and more. Many of these paths are still barely visible

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Map of the monotheist inscriptions of Arabia, 400-600 CE.

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The Samaritans conducted several violent revolts in Late Antiquity.

Samaritanism provided the immediate primary context for what zealous revolutionary Levantine anti-Roman reclamation of holy territory looked like before the 7th century CE.

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The close etymological relationship between Jinn جنّ and Jannah جنة may originally been as straightforward as:

'concealed [spiritual] beings' come from the 'concealed Place [of the spirit realm]'

Kind of hard to avoid this conclusion.

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Dr Fred Donner is a great scholar, but his core thesis has a glaring flaw:

He equivocates between the Qur'ānic Mu'minūn (believers) and the self identity of the earliest Arab conquerors, Muhājirūn (emigrants, sojourners).

Why? On what basis?

https://t.co/sG22Pcq5Y1

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Militant revolution was well- patterned in the 6th c by the Samaritans.

After the last failed revolt to cleanse the 'blessed land' of Israel, the seal of the Samaritan prophets, Moses, soon later be recast as a progenitor for the Arab Khatam an-Nabiyyin in a few short decades.

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The Samaritans conducted several violent revolts in Late Antiquity.

Samaritanism provided the immediate primary context for what zealous revolutionary Levantine anti-Roman reclamation of holy territory looked like before the 7th century CE.

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In 572, Justin II reported Samaritan attacks on Christian churches near Mount Carmel. In response, he rescinded rights granted by Justinian. This led to another joint Samaritan-Jewish revolt in 572-573. The uprising further reduced the Samaritans in the region.

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When did the Arabs become known as the Ishmaelites? This #Safaitic inscription records a man, who calls himself the 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔, grieving for his father. Newly updated #OCIANA card, especially the commentary - KRS 294: https://t.co/iFc050v15R