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Found a really interesting portion from Philos "On the Confusion of the Tongues", which really closely echoes themes from the Quranic portrayal of the charater of Pharaoh in the narrative of Moses. [1/2]

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In closing: yes there's much to admire in the traditional method of Hadith analysis but its utility for the historian is very limited. There's more to say but I will leave things here.

Balaam Salhum In regards to most narrations, unless proven otherwise, one must take a agnostic apporach – the report isnt authentic unless proven, and the reports isnt inauthentic unless proven otherwise – i.e we cannot fully say to know before, for the corpus is in all its variety so complex.

—Filing a complaint— I complained to the days about how they treat us, but why cry to the one who makes you weep? So the days only made me complain all the more: they just give us complaints and take none away.

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My 2¢ on the ḥadīth scholarship vs. secular scholarship discourse [1] Motzki (et al.) was mistaken to speak of the “authenticity” of the ḥadīth corpus, inasmuch as readers confused how he used authenticity with how ḥadīth scholarship uses words like ṣaḥīḥ, ḥasan, etc...

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It will likely be a couple weeks before I release articles on hadith methodology. In the meantime, here is my first article. Its focus is on the ascription of classical Islamic works. The content isn't particularly novel, but this topic keeps coming up. kerrs.blog/posts/sources/

Philo doesnt seem to have a very positive view on the charater of Pharaoh. These themes found in Philos works, if something, really echoe the themes of the Quranic Pharaoh as the prideful and self exalting person, even to the extent of being a sort of "an anti-thesis of God".

Fringe theories have no academic value. The historical existence of the Prophet is affirmed by all substantial critical authorities. In addition to this, none (perhaps apart from Shoemaker) really doubts that the Quran gives us data about the Prophet.

The HCM does not attack Islam. The HCM, to put it concisely, is a way of doing history without starting with any sort of assumptions about divine and sacred truth, without starting with any norms about what can and cannot be questioned, etc, in order so that religious (and other)

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Did ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib Pay his Muslim Troops with Alcohol? & how later muḥaddiths suppressed this notion. A thread 🧵[1/15]