Phil Dorroll
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Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
...and is the contemporary iteration of what was called scientism or positivism in the late 19th/early 20th century.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
...and is the contemporary iteration of what was called scientism or positivism in the late 19th/early 20th century.
! Anything special about the Mar Saba Method?
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
! Anything special about the Mar Saba Method?
That's a great question; in my experience, its more flexible/writer-dependent in classical texts. And iirc, this construction is also particularly common in the fusha used by Chalcedonians in S. Palestine (esp. Mar Saba monastery), which has a few of its own peculiarities:
A Grammar of Christian Arabic Based Mainly on South-palestinian Texts from the First Millennium, Fasc. I: Ss 1-169 (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium)
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November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
That's a great question; in my experience, its more flexible/writer-dependent in classical texts. And iirc, this construction is also particularly common in the fusha used by Chalcedonians in S. Palestine (esp. Mar Saba monastery), which has a few of its own peculiarities:
(Qur'an 2:25, 2:62, 2:277, 10:4, 13:29, 18:30, 19:96, 25:70, etc)
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(Qur'an 2:25, 2:62, 2:277, 10:4, 13:29, 18:30, 19:96, 25:70, etc)
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November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM