Sunday, December 27, 2020

The Qur'an and the Secrets of Egypt

My friend Abu Zakariya of ManyProphetsOneMessage has just released this high-quality video, based partly on research I have gathered here on this blog—though I have learned several new things from it myself. I highly recommend checking it out, along with his other videos and resources. 



Note: There is one inaccuracy that should be pointed out, which is that the Qur’anic hāmān and the Egyptian ḥm-‘mn do not phonetically correspond, since the former has /h/ (Arabic ه) and the latter has /ḥ/ (equivalent to Arabic ح). They therefore cannot be related.

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Excellent resource on ring composition in the Qur'an

It has been a long time since I have posted here! I wanted to give a shout out here to Munir Eltal's blog https://heavenlyorder.substack.com. He is doing an excellent service by trying to collect everything together on symmetry, chiasmus, or ring composition in the Qur'an into one place. I have shared some examples here on my blog—but see his for many, many more.