The Hadith 🤝 the Midrash
Noah cutting a deal with the devil to share the grapevine

Excited to share a new project that I'm working on: usul.ai

Usul brings the latest advances in AI into Islamic research, giving the ability to query and search entire book collections or eras.

The product is free and open-source.

She's finally in the game!! This character was a huge labor of love in collaboration with SNZ for sculpting and we worked on the concept together with BlueChaos and Rayvell did most of the texturing. More coming soon! #indiegames #indie_anime #UnrealEngine

*ˁiṣ̂- 'tree, wood'
- Akkad. iṣu 'ibd.'
- Arab. عض ˁiḍḍ 'thorny plant'
- Hebr. עץ ˁēṣ 'tree, wood'
- Bibl. Aram. אע ˀāˁ 'tree'
- Old Ethiop. ዕፅ ˁəṣ̂ 'tree, shrub, wood'
(2/2)

Two #Semitic words of the day 🖐🏽🌳
*yad- 'hand, arm'
- Akkad. idu(m) 'arm, side'
- Arab. يد yad 'hand, forleg'
- Hebr. יד yād 'hand, forearm'
- Syriac. ܐܝܕܐ ʔīdā 'hand, arm'
- Old Ethiop. እድ ʔəd 'hand'
- Mehri ḥayd 'hand, arm'
(1/2)

I often get asked if Qira'at (Qur'anic readings) can be explained as different Arabic dialects.
That's not being accurate. Qira'at has linguistic practices which certainly belong to certain Arabic dialects.

An exciting aspect of this course is that as part of my recovery of this early Maturidi tradition, we will read my in-progress edition of the text/translation. This includes sections reconstructed from a commentary on the same manuscript. Student comments will feed into the work.

kadxudā Marijn van Putten Here we are like Egyptian, Urban Hijazi:

sakkīr
ṣiddīq (loan)
ḫanzīr
ʕafrīt
ṣandūg
ʕaṣfūr
I personally say jumhūr but I vaguely recall hearing jamhūr though I'm not sure.

Marijn van Putten On pointing out some examples of his critiques, he stated that this was a contradiction on Ibn Mujahid's hence why 'the scholars did not take his view'. 🤷‍♂️

Marijn van Putten This is really nice, thanks!

A few more examples of *CaCCūC ⇒ CuCCūC in case they’re of interest:

Hebrew/Aramaic šaḥrūr ⇒ Classical šuḥrūr (‘blackbird’)
Egyptian barġūṯ (Syrian barġūṯ al-baḥr = ‘shrimp’!) ⇒ burġūṯ (‘flea’)
Palestinian farfūra ⇒ furfūr (‘butterfly’)

My monograph on Jewish Neo-Aramaic is now out with Brill! 🥳📚The book combines grammar with comparative dialectology and typology (phonology, syntax). It also serves as an entry point into Northeastern Neo-Aramaic for non-specialists.
shorturl.at/jxYZ4

Annemiek is eventjes HE-LE-MAAL klaar met mannen

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'Christoph Luxenberg deciphers Quran' AI results

At Roseberys auction: magnificent Mushaf perhaps from the province of Shumen (Bulgaria). Copied in 1272/1855 by Ali Uthman al-Hilmi, a pupil of the famous Shumen scribe Sayyid Muhammad Nuri. The mushaf’s illumination is a good example of Shumen style [Pr. Ballantyne’s collection]

I think it’s kinda funny that most Mainstream Indo-Aryan languages replaced the inherited Indo-Iranic words for ‘milk’ and ‘water’ — Skt. kṣīrá- & udán- — by (reflexes of) words for ‘(thing which was) milked’ and ‘drinkable (thing)’ — Skt. dugdʰá- & pānī́ya-.

Did you know that madd, pronouncing certain vowels overlong, which is now strongly associated with Quranic recitation, to Ibn Ǧinnī was simply just how you are supposed to pronounce Classical Arabic?

This is even clear from all his non-Quranic examples.
doi.org/10.1163/187846…