Marijn van Putten

"Is the Quran (perfectly) preserved?" is a question I get a lot. I'm never sure how to answer this, or why I am considered the person to ask. This is obviously a question of faith, not something that can be known as an absolute truth. Against better judgment, a small thread.

Ozzy Forever!

#New on #OCIANA: a #Dhofari inscription from east Oman discovered by Prof. al-Jahwari. The text seems to give the name and lineage of an individual. If this is correct, then Dhofari 𝒉𝒍 would seem to correspond with Arabic ʾahl 'family'. Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

Seaweed from Hell? A Qur'ānic hapax legomenon in a modern Arabic dialect lughat.blogspot.com/2015/08/seawee…

#New on #OCIANA: a remarkable Dhofari text by a sick man on the move who makes an offering in hopes of respite. The translation is provisional as we learn more and more about this new language … See: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

My 2¢ on the ḥadīth scholarship vs. secular scholarship discourse [1] Motzki (et al.) was mistaken to speak of the “authenticity” of the ḥadīth corpus, inasmuch as readers confused how he used authenticity with how ḥadīth scholarship uses words like ṣaḥīḥ, ḥasan, etc...

Aɣundu. اللبن المخوض (Ibn Tunart). [aɣu+ndu] مخيض البقر ويعرف بالبربرية "أغو ندو" ومعناه لبن مخيض Ibn Baklariš. MS arcadian libr (MC). Aɣɣu-aneddu. (Lait battu).(Ayt Sadden).(Basset.1963:78). (Ḥdid). Aɣu neddu. (Lait battu).(Azdoud: 119). Aɣu inda. (Le lait est battu).(DST:34).

This is a travesty — the entire campaign is rooted in a bad faith reading of @JonathanACBrown 's original tweet that also ignores his subsequent statements. Georgetown should be defending his academic freedom rather than placating and cooperating with an opportunistic witchhunt

The clip from our podcast with Dr. @YasirQadhi is being blown out of proportion by the usual suspects. The one accusation that I think is the biggest stretch (and honestly a projection) is that what he said somehow demonstrates an inferiority complex toward the Western academy…

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#New in #OCIANA: A remarkable prayer in #Dhofari in praise ℎ̣𝑚𝑑 of a deity called ʾ𝑦𝑙. Is ʾ𝑦𝑙 a local pronunciation of the pan-Semitic father deity, ʾilu? The deity seems to be later in the text called ℎ̣𝑦 'living'! See the commentary here: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/4…

Andrew West inspired new generations to study the long dead writing systems and langauges of Asia and I'm forever grateful for his research and resources. ᢀᠣᠸᠠ ᠮᠠᢏᢈ ᢒᠠᢑᠮᠧ ᢀᠾᠤᠤ

10 июля умер Эндрю Вест - один из лучших людей, которых я знал. Честный, прямой, верный, мудрый, ранимый. Лучший знаток древних письменностей, создатель множества шрифтов, точно имеющий дар слышать мысли их создателей, давно ушедших. Теперь ушёл и он. babelstone.co.uk

I am utterly shocked and saddened by the news of Andrew West‘s untimely passing. He was a huge inspiration, an impressive scholar, and a kind and generous person. FAMA PER ORA VOLAT SPIRITUS ASTRA TENET

this is why Moses was lost there for 40 years

if I had a nickel for every time an Arabic dialect rotated the cardinal directions 90 degrees clockwise for some reason, I'd have two nickels (for northern Sinai and eastern Mauritania), which...

Guess where I am now..

My New Paper, published in @alusuralwusta! Arya Tabibzadeh (2025): 'Masʾalatun or Mas'ʾalatun? That Is the Question! The Implications of Traditional Persian Metrics for Classical Arabic Stress, journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alus… @MideastMedieval

When the patient lies down, he says, "I repent." Until he is healed, He commits sins more serious than those before.