Blog posts related academically to Quran and Islam texts, history, and manuscripts
Nearly one-twelfth of U.S. history is now post-9/11. A fifth of a century ago … how has it been that long? … nineteen young men with apparently bad upbringings and a Wahhabi/Salafi Muslim vision of Muhammad in their hearts threw a tantrum that hurt an enormous number of people and permanently altered millions of lives. …
On June 15, 2020, a new YouTube channel called “Variant Quran” was born. By now, the channel’s thirty videos have been viewed a total of approximately 475,000 times, all over the world and by speakers of many different languages. Ten percent of views to date come from the first video, “Missing Words In A Quran …
The Brubaker home was honored to host Dr. Gerd-R Puin, the well-known German scholar of Quran manuscripts and one-time cataloguer and caretaker of the so-called Sanaa Manuscripts shortly after the time of their first discovery in Yemen. Dr. Puin traveled to Virginia to present a paper on a panel I led at the annual meeting …
A little more than a year has passed since we lost our friend and colleague, Dr. Keith E. Small, on December 8, 2018. Keith was a friend and one of my mentors in my work with Quran manuscripts. I have published tributes to him in more than one place, so will not repeat those here; …
In late 2015, President Obama was seeking to bind the United States to a treaty, the JCPOA, that came to be known as the “Iran nuclear deal,” or just the “Iran Deal.” The Iran Deal, its critics (I among them) argued, would set Iran upon a sure path to a nuclear weapon. Most Americans, in …
Published at the end of May, 2019, my first small book is just a start aimed at satisfying the curiosity of the various people (including a more popular audience) who have taken an interest in my research. The book earned positive pre-publication comment from a number of esteemed colleagues including Gerd-R Puin, Marijn van Putten, …
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