Sohaib Saeed د. صهيب
Scottish Azhari. Purveyor of ḍād jokes and Great Exegesis. Director @IbnAshurCentre
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Salam everyone! I don’t often do fundraising, but.. 📣 People sometimes ask how they can support my work, and I haven’t had an answer before now. So if you’ve benefited from any o...
I was struck by this awkward rendering of بكلمة منه اسمه المسيح and found that a few others besides Adil Salahi did this, inc. M. Ali, M. Asad, T.B. Irving. Most translators and ex...
We’re doing something a little different this month at https://t.co/qzy05BnIUg – I’d love for you to join us as we reflect on one Quranic parable* each day (with a little help from...
It’s here! My paper “Fights and Flights: Two Underrated ‘Alternatives’ to Dominant Readings in tafsīr” is now live and #openaccess in the latest Journal of Qur’anic Studies. Go dow...
Come on now, my Arabic etymology tweets are too silly to be true.. except the ones that are true!
@YasirQadhi Let's start with some data. Jonas Svensson used computational methods to assess similarity between translations, and concluded that there isn't particularly high resem...
Who told you guys to replace “Remember me in your du’as” with “your ad’iyah”? It sounds strange.
Two responses to nasihah… I saw a job advert from a prominent Muslim college that said “Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.” That means others will be ghosted. Apparen...
Reasons I haven’t given Ebussuûd Efendi enough attention until now: (1) I read Alusi’s tafsir religiously and he incorporates almost everything from him. (2) The edition I had wasn...
🧵 I’m always fascinated by ayat that have been read by some exegetes as depicting a ‘supernatural’ occurrence, and others a ‘natural’ one. I’m interested in what motivates particu...
Interesting question! First, we’re assuming “He it is who named you Muslims” (22:78) means that God has given this name (some understood the pronoun to be for Abraham). Second, the...
“Spooked zebras”? An enquiry into the language, readings & translation of Q. 74:50 كأنهم حمر مستنفِـَرة https://t.co/tWTMJdC2Xg