📚 Book: The Qur'an And The Aramaic Gospel Traditions | ✍️ Author: Emran El-Badawi | Episode 11

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📚Book: "The Qur'an And The Aramaic Gospel Traditions"
📚Genre: History / Religion / Christianity / Islam
✍️ Author: Emran El-Badawi
🎧 Episode info:
Professor Dr. Emran El-Badawi of the University of Houston speaks about his 2013 book "The Qur'an And The Aramaic Gospel Traditions."
🖍 Episode highlights:
✅ The author's early history and Bengali heritage
✅ What body of literature does 'The Aramaic Gospel Traditions' refer to?
✅ What is the period of "Late Antiquity"?
✅ The Christological Debates
✅ Is "Dogmatic Re-Articulation" a polite word for polemics?
✅ Question from Professor Dr. Gabriel Said Reynolds
✅ Question from Barrister Yasser Latif Hamdani
✅ A book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime
✅ Other writing projects: "Communities Of The Qur'an & "Queens and Prophets"
✍️ Author's bio:
Dr. Emran El-Badawi is an academic program director and professor, writer and consultant, focusing on the the culture, economics and history of the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.
Dr. El-Badawi has contributed to Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor and numerous other publications.
He has published in English as well as Arabic and has made dozens of national as well as international media appearances, including for The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, and Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne (ARTE). His professional work and scholarship have won several awards. These include honorable acclaim by the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. His current research projects explore the origins of Arab liberalism and Islamic culture.
His principle areas of consulting are in Law, Government and Business (DrEl-Badawi.com)
He has management expertise in education, publishing and IT. His strengths include academic program management and development, utilizing interdisciplinary, global models that are profitable and progressive. He has received awards and honors from government, academia and private organizations.
Dr. El-Badawi speaks four languages and has lived and studied in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the US. He has a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University and he received his Ph.D. with honors in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.
📚 Book Review by Omar Nizam:
A book whose very title conjures up a sense of unbridled excitement for all who are interested in History, Theology, Religious History, and the Arabic & Aramaic languages.
Emran El-Badawi's dissertation is a fascinating and long overdue study that examines the "conversation" between the Arabic Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects.
The book examines the history of religious movements in the Late Antique Middle East period, arguing that the Qur'an can be historically viewed as a response to the disunity and sectarianism that was prevalent in the Aramaic-speaking Churches.
The study shows how the Qur'an re-purposes and dogmatically re-articulates the Aramaic Gospel traditions to fit it's own theology that comprises of a strict monotheism, a post-Rabbinic anti-clerical stance, and a heavily Apocalyptic worldview.
Emran El-Badawi's apprenticeship under other renowned personalities in the field - including Sidney Griffith, Fred Donner, and Gabriel Said Reynolds - has led to a final scholarly outcome of a book that can only be thought of as par excellence.
As such, it is well deserving of full marks (with great distinction).
My Rating: 5/5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (with great distinction)

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