Jabal al-Lughat

A strong contender for the most obviously ridiculous etymology in Jeffery's The Foreign Vocabulary of The Quran is his attempt to deriv...

The Qur'ān is not intended as an account of events. Rather than being organised around narratives, it typically brings up apparently fa...

A long time ago, I posted some rather speculative musings on the minor mystery of the allegedly Ethiopic word qaswarah قسورة in the Qur...

Phoenix has started posting a rather interesting series on the orthography of the Qur'an and the linguistic features it reflects . Such...

The Qur'ān contains many Arabic words obscure enough that even the earliest commentators (eg al-Ṭabarī ), at a time when Arabs still na...

( Attention conservation notice : This post is probably only of interest if you're reading The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy .) ...

My description of Khalaf's reading in the previous post applies to all readings transmitted from Ḥamzah ibn Ḥabīb al-Taymī of Kūfa: K...

(Warning: This post assumes some knowledge of Arabic, although you should be able to follow the argument even without it.) Everyone knows ...