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My new book, co-authored with Stephen Shoemaker, has has just been released. It's published #openacess but feel free to buy a hardcopy, too!
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Sean W. Anthony
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Sean W. Anthony
@shahanSean
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at 𝕿𝖍𝖊 @OhioState University #GoBucks
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- Not a personal slight to Mr. Anon here, but I find it odd how many Muslims love to boast about not being smart enough to understand the basics of Christian theology.I came across this scene from the movie called “Passion of Christ” and noticed that the Christians can't help themselves but portray their “God” Jesus as seeking refuge in Allah:
- The only people being written out of history here are the Byzantines who actually preserved the Greek originals. [NB there's scant evidence that any *complete* work of Plato was translated into Syriac or Arabic, just fragments and epitomes]The Enlightenment was possible because of Muslim scholarship preserving European texts. Yet Muslims have been airbrushed out of this story. @MehreenKhn Listen to the full discussion with Mehreen Khan here: youtu.be/l0I4D21y24A?fe…
00:00books.google.comHistory of Ancient Greek Scholarship - The 18th surah of the Qurʾan, al-Kahf, speaks of a figure named Ḏū l-Qarnayn, ‘the Two-Horned Man’. Who is he? Most modern historians contend that Ḏū l-Qarnayn is none other than Alexander 'the Great' of Macedon (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, 356–323 BCE). This thread explains why…
- This is a beautiful example of how absurd the numbers given in these sources are. In this case, the numbers probably come from Ibn Ishaq.A visual comparison of Battle of Mu’tah, showing 3,000 Muslim Army facing 200,000 Roman kuffar
Readers added contextThe Battle of Mu'tah was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the First Islamic State. The true size of the armies is considered to be around 10,000 for the Byzantines and 3000 for the Muslims. It ended with a Byzantine victory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…. islam365.io/topics/wars.ht…(perhaps%20by%20ten%2Dto - Replying to @abduallah_aminThis is like saying that the soul cannot be immortal because the body is mortal. I don't believe in the immortal soul myself, but it's very easy for me to see why this is a bad argument.
- The story of how the young Salman Rushdie first encountered at Cambridge the classic story of the so-called "satanic verses" that eventually inspired the novel (published in 1988) is a pretty interesting one that he details in his memoir Joseph Anton (2012) ...
- Prior to the Arab conquests, the Christian rulers dumped the city's trash on the Temple Mount. It was literally just treated as a rubbish heap. One of the first things Muslims did was to build a place of worship there after having slaves clear the garbage away.The temple in Jerusalem, where Jesus spent his final days on this earth, is a Christian holy site that has been visited and venerated by Christians for thousands of years.
- Replying to @shiismstudies and @nasafismNo, I'm talking to you like an equal rather than patronizing you.
- 🧵A 9th-cent. historian of Mecca, Abū l-Walīd al-Azraqī, transmits several stories abt how the Prophet Muḥammad spared an icon (ṣūrah) of Mary and Jesus from destruction when he purged the Kaʿbah of the idols it contained. But if the icon wasn’t destroyed, what happened to it?
- 1/ Recently I’ve been revisiting the issue of the Ḥajj and the Kaʿbah in early Islam, and I started collecting the earliest historical attestations to Muslim reverence for the Kaʿbah and the Ḥajj. Here’s some of the results:
- Sorry, but Muslim scholars did 𝒏𝒐𝒕 write about evolution, let alone natural selection, 1000 yrs before Darwin ... "A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection" vice.com/en/article/ep4… via @VICE
- Forthcoming: Michael A. Cook, A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (May 2024), 960pp press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
- My next book, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, coming out April 2020
