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Inventing Ḥarām and the Case of Alcohol: Text, Language, and Reason

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Text, language, and reason—without tradition, without dogma.

“Do not say, according to the falsehood your tongues utter: ‘This is lawful and this is forbidden,’ so as to invent lies about God. Truly, those who invent lies about God will not succeed.”

(Qur’an, an-Naḥl 16:116

Ayyāman Maʿdūdāt

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“Ayyāman Maʿdūdāt”: Linguistic, Textual, and Intertextual Analysis of the Qur’anic Concept of Limited Days

Method: lexical analysis + internal Qur’anic usage + intertextual comparison (Torah / Tanakh / Jubilees). No appeal to later Islamic tradition as an interpretive authority.

Covenant vs. Progressive Revelation

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Covenant vs. Progressive Revelation: A Textual Q&A (Torah, Acts, Qur’an, Kolbrin)

Why this matters: People often mix two different categories—(1) laws inside an established covenant and (2) guidance for peoples outside that covenant. When those are confused, “progressive revelation” is used to justify replacing prior commandments. This post separates the frameworks using text-based criteria.