Marijn van Putten (@PhDniX)

Several people called me out in my thread, saying I was wrong to say that Juynboll said that Nāfiʿ the Quranic reader was fictitious. He doesn't say it in so many words but, he suggests pre-d. 200 AH, Medinan Nāfiʿ's *but* Ibn ʿUmar are "fictitious". So also Nāfiʿ al-Qāriʾ. <span class="quote-car...

The Lower text of the Sanaa Palimpest is exciting to researchers, because its lower text is a non-Uthmanic version of the Quran. When the wording differs between the Palimpsest and the Uthmanic text, how do we decode which one is more original? A thread on a variant at Q19:26 🧵 ...

The story of Lot and his people in the Quran recurs strikingly often throughout the Quran (Q11:77-83; Q15:51-77; Q26:160-75; Q27:54; Q37:133-8; Q51:24-37; Q54:33-9; Q80:33-42), and finds clear parallels with the story as told in Gen. 19. A thread on a specific reading variant. 🧵 ...

Ibn Muǧāhid is widely regarded as the canonizer of the seven reading traditions, but if you actually look at the ʾIsnāds through which people trace the readings he barely visible. How come? 🧵...