Originally posted by rogue06
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Looking back through this thread, by page two you were bragging about the number of volumes you had read on this topic and your Sunday visits to the university library, and then very quickly started making personally abusive remarks. You have also consistently failed to refer to a single title or author of those numerous books that you allege to have read during those visits.
Nor have you ever answered the questions that I have directly put to you.
I asked if you had heard of Crone, Hodson or Donner – and I never got a response
You wrote on page 9:
Originally posted by rogue06
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That remark would appear to be suggesting that you consider yourself to be something of an authority on this subject. Given that affectation on your part I asked you for you “expert” opinion on the isnād-cum-matn method when assessing Sunni traditions and for any new insights you could bring to the opinions of [and I chose three academics randomly] Wansbrough, Goldhizer and Burton.
You declared that:
Wansbrough was an Islamic apologist
For which you have yet to tell us from where you obtained that information.
You then made a vague remark that Burton had:
provided invaluable information
Thereby attempting to suggest that you knew something of Burton's work while neatly avoiding having to expand on precisely what "information" Burton had actually "provided".
I suspect you had not heard of any of those names until I mentioned them; and hence you are now blustering and procrastinating about addressing those last two questions despite declaring that you can do so::
Without any difficulty
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