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Karimi-Nia uploaded his article that has just come out in the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. It's a spectacular standard Quranic manuscripts which, however, originally had the Surah order of Ibn Mas`ūd's Mushaf.
https://t.co/RFsvViAG93
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
This is one of the books that inspired me to pursue a master's degree in development economics.
I remember being consumed by it during breaks in a summer job I had in 2009 in Tromsø, my hometown. Sometimes I even hid in remote bathrooms just to read a little more.
Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology
This figure, by political scientist Colin Hay, gets it right.
Methods are very important.
But we should not delink our discussions about methods from a consideration of ontological and epistemological questions.
#OpenAccess
Games of History
Games and Gaming as Historical Sources
Apostolos Spanos. Routledge 2021
https://t.co/qCyTRs8RuS
https://t.co/kCNX6Lr6A3
PDF
https://t.co/DNg3MsYvyX
#OpenAccess
Medieval Arabic Historiography
Authors as Actors
Konrad Hirschler. Routledge 2006
https://t.co/iYZgzbDBew
https://t.co/5Oa0AUaT5C
PDF
https://t.co/aoR2fD9a9g
To better understand the historical depth of this systematic colonization, read Hafsa Kanjwal’s Colonizing Kashmir—a powerful account of how the Indian state has used development and democracy as tools of domination.
Is an Islamic state possible today, or is the very form of the modern state structurally un-Islamic?
Enter the bifurcation of the very concept of a state into its content (mutable) and its form (enduring and ontological).
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#Theology#Religions
Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism
A Sourcebook
eds. Björn Bentlage et al. BRill 2016
PDF is available on editor's Academia
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https://t.co/iKeOuUUllK
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Thread: How to Solve an “Isnād Puzzle” Using the Isnād-Cum-Matn Analysis?
The study of Hadith is one of the most difficult fields in Islamic studies. In addition to the significant bias that Hadith scholars must deal with due to deeply rooted scepticism towards Hadith, researchers also face problems related to the chain of transmission. I am unsure which of these deters more researchers from studying Hadith in academia 😃. Here is an excellent example: