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Quraysh and confederacy

March 26, 2014 9 Comments

The name of Muhammad’s tribe, as reported in the Arabic sources, is Quraysh. It’s a word of no certain origin, and the medieval scholars offer a number of speculative and conflicting etymologies, none of which is very plausible. That’s normal… Continue Reading →

Etymology, Syriac

Early Sources for Abu Bakr bin Abi Quhafa

March 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

Guest post by Richard Heffron, doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and an experienced Arabist. He collects here the earliest Syriac sources for Abū Bakr, which are, as far as I know, the earliest dated sources in any language… Continue Reading →

Abu Bakr, Guest post, Sources, Syriac

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