My most recently published article
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The Arabs and the Ummah of Muḥammad
This essay starts from a somewhat simple question: What was the ummah of Muḥammad? It has become commonplace in the historiography of early Islam to understand the ummah of Muḥammad as primarily the “...
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Reposted by: Sean W. Anthony
New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 1 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/2 @ucpress.bsky.social @shahansean.bsky.social
Volume 9 Issue 2 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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My most recent article: "The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an," Studies in Late Antiquity 9.2 (Summer 2025)
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The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an
This article revisits a leitmotif of modern Western scholarship on the Qur’an: the historical-critical appraisal of its accounts of the end of Jesus’s earthly mission and its apparent denial of his cr...
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Just how strong is the syntactic impact of translationese on Modern Standard Arabic? Well -
Frequency of indirect speech
Quranic: 0.45%
Classical: 0.30%
MSA: 30.50%
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Frequency of indirect speech
Quranic: 0.45%
Classical: 0.30%
MSA: 30.50%
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The influence of English on Modern Standard Arabic speech reporting styles: A corpus-based study
This paper traces the development of speech reporting styles across historical varieties of Arabic and seeks to explain aspects of such development. T…
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