Nuri Sunnah (Edit profile)

Nuri Sunnah is an independent academic and author based in the United States. His areas of interest and research center on the historical origin of the Qurʾān, Qur’ānic theology, early Islamic history, and comparative late antique religion. To a lesser extent, he also studies Nation of Islam intellectual history and the reception of Islam by contemporary African Americans more broadly.

This essay challenges Stephen Shoemaker’s interpretation of the two descriptions of Paradise in Q 55:46-76 as oral variants of a single tradition later combined by qurʾānic editors. Contra Shoemaker, it argues that the cumulative weight of the [...]