Research Papers
Long-form academic papers on Qur'anic studies, hadith studies, and early Islamic history — fully cited and subject to internal editorial review before publication, but not formally peer-reviewed.
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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
How do you tell Islam itself apart from the cultures that grew up around it? This essay tests inheritance law, national governance, elder care, and charitable giving against the Qur'an's own text, and asks a harder question too: can a country call itself Islamic on population alone, or should it also be judged by how well it reflects the Qur'an's own ethical demands?
Revert Way Research Team
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Islam: History, Authority and the Development of Islamic Tradition
A historical-critical review of the Qur'an and Hadith as sources of religious authority in Islam, distinguishing established fact, scholarly consensus, majority and minority opinion, disputed claims, and theological interpretation at every step.
Revert Way Research Team
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Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice
A historical-critical review testing whether practices commonly described as Islamic requirements for women — segregation, face-veiling, travel guardianship, exclusion from mosques and public office — rest on the Qur'an itself or on later hadith, jurisprudence, dynastic custom, and regional practice.
Revert Way Research Team
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The Sana'a Palimpsest and Qur'anic Variant Readings
What the erased lower text of the Sana'a palimpsest does, and does not, tell us about variation in the earliest written transmission of the Qur'an.
Revert Way Research Team
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The Dome of the Rock Inscriptions and Early Islamic Identity
What the 72 AH Dome of the Rock inscriptions can and cannot tell historians about the state of the Qur'anic text and Islamic religious identity at the end of the first Islamic century.
Revert Way Research Team