"The matter of the Prophet of God is that which unbelievers inherit for implausible points of criticism and monotheists inherit for custody over the truth." - Ibn al-Rawandi, quoted by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.

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Today I delivered this paper (based on research for a forthcoming book) at the 2025 BRAIS Conference. It was well-received at our Cambridge Muslim College panel. Afterwards, myself and colleagues had a good discussion on the formation of Hanafi and Hadith schools in 3rd/4th centuries.

Analytic Islamic Epistemology: Critical Debates, edited by Saf Chowdhury and myself, will be published next month! Pre-orders are available at a 40% discount. Our book engages with Islamic thought, comparative religion and analytic religious epistemology. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-analytic-…

This is a pioneering and highly significant contribution to the much-needed dialogue between contemporary analytic philosophy and Islamic philosophy and rational theology. Sincere thanks!

It was an honour to present my book at an online research seminar for the Imam Maturidi International Scientific Research Center (Tashkent) with senior academics in Uzbekistan. This highlights increasing co-operation between the Center and Cambridge Muslim College. moturidiy.uz/en/news/detail…

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I think it's perfectly possible to establish hadith reports as credible historical sources within academic disciplines, and to use much of traditional Hadith methods in that. But it needs a level of cross-tradition scholarly engagement from both "sides" that we haven't seen yet.

Funny Valentine I think we need to have a nuanced understanding of what "definitive" means when reporting history from 1500 years ago. Muslim scholars were quite comfortable with the category of non-definitive (zanni). The question of these "flaws" also needs better understanding in academic

Funny Valentine I disagree that it is a circular method. The early critics wrote the rijal (i.e. biographical) literature (e.g. al-Bukhari with his Tarikh). These encoded narrator ratings but were not the initial source of those ratings. That was based on an appraisal of the accuracy of

I’m happy to announce that Sajjad Rizvi (Sajjad Rizvi سجاد رضوي) and I will be the editors in chief of the new Brill journal Taḥqīq: 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. The journal publishes articles, reviews, and notes on all aspects of Islamic

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RESEARCH | Dr Salman Younas presented his paper 'A Historical Analysis of the Emergence of Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyya: The Hanafi School in the 3rd/9th-4th/10th centuries' at a conference in 🇹🇷 hosted by Dar al-Fuqaha on Qawa'id Fiqhiyya (legal maxims). (1/2)

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Interesting article naming pattern.

After six years and 150,000 words, the volume is finally complete! Now on to typesetting. It’s been a journey full of lessons, and I hope this open access work will serve as a valuable resource for students around the world.

ICMA is still in its infancy, in my opinion we just recently transitioned from a revisionist/skeptical model to a more neutral model. It also doesn't help that some aspects of the revisionist aspect still survives an example being Pavlovitch's treatment of Single Strands.