https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Reliable_Sources&feed=atom&action=historyWikiIslam:Reliable Sources - Revision history2024-03-28T12:47:08ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.4https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Reliable_Sources&diff=123788&oldid=prevAsmith: /* Secondary Sources */2020-10-22T08:06:54Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Secondary Sources</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scholarship</del>, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. For example, a statement by a scholar about a certain battle in the history of Islam would be a secondary source. The news articles [http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19888 "Productivity suffers during holy month"] and "[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1319257/Outcry-over-Malaysian-child-marriages Outcry over Malaysian child marriages]" that report on a development or an incident are also secondary sources. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used. All documents from around the time an incident occurred may not be primary but rather secondary, and many documents which seem ancient to us may yet be secondary sources reporting on events which transpired in a remote time in the past relative to the author. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">academia</ins>, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. For example, a statement by a scholar about a certain battle in the history of Islam would be a secondary source. The news articles [http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19888 "Productivity suffers during holy month"] and "[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1319257/Outcry-over-Malaysian-child-marriages Outcry over Malaysian child marriages]" that report on a development or an incident are also secondary sources. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used. All documents from around the time an incident occurred may not be primary but rather secondary, and many documents which seem ancient to us may yet be secondary sources reporting on events which transpired in a remote time in the past relative to the author. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Excluding the [[Islam in the </del>News<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] section, news </del>sources that could be considered "right-wing" or "Jewish/Zionist" should also be avoided when possible (e.g. Fox News, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage Magazine, National Review, Daily Caller or the Daily Mail). In the majority of cases, news sources such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse or Reuters would have also covered the story.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>News sources that could be considered "right-wing" or "Jewish/Zionist" should also be avoided when possible (e.g. Fox News, WorldNetDaily, FrontPage Magazine, National Review, Daily Caller or the Daily Mail). In the majority of cases, news sources such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse or Reuters would have also covered the story <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and should be used in lieu of the beforementioned sources</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#Qur'an in English: [{{Compendium-of-muslim-texts-base-url}}/quran/ ], [http://www.islamawakened.com/Quran/ ] and [http://iknowledge.islamicnature.com/quran/surah/1/lang/englishliteral/ ]. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>#Qur'an in English: [{{Compendium-of-muslim-texts-base-url}}/quran/], [http://www.islamawakened.com/Quran/] and [http://iknowledge.islamicnature.com/quran/surah/1/lang/englishliteral/].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Primary sources are original materials. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called ''original source'' or ''evidence'') is an artifact, a document, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. A primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document created by such a person. In an article about a book (e.g. the [[Qur'an]]) it would be the book itself. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">case </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a person</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it would be </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subject itself; e</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">g. if Prophet [[Muhammad]] said something </del>about <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">himself</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his statement would </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a primary source</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Primary sources are original materials. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called ''original source'' or ''evidence'') is an artifact, a document, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. A primary source can be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an artifact produced by </ins>a person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document created by such a person. In an article about a book (e.g. the [[Qur'an]]) it would be the book itself. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Careful attention must be paid to the subject of primary sources in the study of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Islam. For centuries</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both Muslim and western academics have treated documents written in the 8th century and after as primary resources in reference to events which transpired in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">7th century</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Although such documents may be primary sources in reference to traditional and original Muslim beliefs </ins>about <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a given topic</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since they tend to depend on chains of transmission from the 7th century these must actually </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">classed as secondary sources</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. For example, a statement by a scholar about a certain battle in the history of Islam would be a secondary source. The news articles [http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19888 "Productivity suffers during holy month"] and "[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1319257/Outcry-over-Malaysian-child-marriages Outcry over Malaysian child marriages]" that report on a development or an incident are also secondary sources. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. For example, a statement by a scholar about a certain battle in the history of Islam would be a secondary source. The news articles [http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19888 "Productivity suffers during holy month"] and "[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1319257/Outcry-over-Malaysian-child-marriages Outcry over Malaysian child marriages]" that report on a development or an incident are also secondary sources. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. All documents from around the time an incident occurred may not be primary but rather secondary, and many documents which seem ancient to us may yet be secondary sources reporting on events which transpired in a remote time in the past relative to the author</ins>. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Tertiary Sources===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Tertiary Sources===</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ibn Ishaq's [[Sirat Rasul Allah|sira]], and those of Ibn Hisham, [[The History of al-Tabari|Tabari]], and Ibn Saa'd are also important religious sources, second only to the Qur'an and hadith (although in practice, the hadith and sira literature's contribution to mainstream Islam far out-way the Qur'an's). The edition of Ishaq's [http://www.justislam.co.uk/images/Ibn%20Ishaq%20-%20Sirat%20Rasul%20Allah.pdf Sirat Rasul Allah] that is generally used is translated by A. Guillaume and published by the Oxford University Press. The various volumes of The History of al-Tabari that is generally use is published by the State University of New York Press (SUNY Press).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ibn Ishaq's [[Sirat Rasul Allah|sira]], and those of Ibn Hisham, [[The History of al-Tabari|Tabari]], and Ibn Saa'd are also important religious sources, second only to the Qur'an and hadith (although in practice, the hadith and sira literature's contribution to mainstream Islam far out-way the Qur'an's). The edition of Ishaq's [http://www.justislam.co.uk/images/Ibn%20Ishaq%20-%20Sirat%20Rasul%20Allah.pdf Sirat Rasul Allah] that is generally used is translated by A. Guillaume and published by the Oxford University Press. The various volumes of The History of al-Tabari that is generally use is published by the State University of New York Press (SUNY Press).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Other </del>Sources===</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wherever possible documents should be quoted in the original languages and translated to English (or the target language of the article). In particular Arabic sources are essential for the study of Islam. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Secular vs Islamic </ins>Sources===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Secular academic sources are welcome. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">So are secular mainstream news </del>sources such <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Associated Press</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Agence France</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Presse and Reuters</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If editors find news and information from these types </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sources </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are quoted and linked </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blogs </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">polemic sites</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rather than citing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blog or polemic site</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </del>should <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">go straight to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">source</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Secular academic sources are welcome <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and in fact required. The Islamic historiographical tradition relies upon the "science" of Isnad, which inter alia classifies historical traditions according to the "trustworthiness" of every person in a given chain of transmittal, a practice which has been repeatedly proven to be fraught with error by western academics since the 19th century</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It is also a tradition which is profoundly and even deliberately ignorant of historical </ins>sources <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">outside of itself written by non-Arab, non-"Muslim" people. As </ins>such<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, when dealing with the early history of Islam particularly in the 7th century, Islamic sources should be thoroughly vetted through </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lens of modern</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">critical secondary sources and augmented by chronologically closer, non</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Islamic primary sources whenever possible</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Although parts of the Islamic narrative may appear so ghastly, outlandish, or self-evidently troublesome for Islamic doctrine as to be ipso facto true by the criterion </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">embarrassment, it must be remembered </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what appears as embarrassing or troubling to a modern, liberal person (or person familiar with the modern, liberal values) living in the global internet culture of the 21st century might not have been embarrassing or at all troubling to a pre-modern person living in an Islamic caliphate </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the 9th </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10th centuries. As such Islamic primary sources</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when it comes to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">question of the history of the first Islamic century</ins>, should <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">always be thoroughly vetted and interrogated with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">help of modern, critical secondary sources</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Sources to Avoid==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Sources to Avoid==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Generally any translation of the Qur'an <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not included in the Compendium of Muslim Texts (other than the literal translation) </del>should be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">avoided. In particular, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">translations by orientalists (e.g. Arthur John Arberry, Edward Henry Palmer, George Sale, John Medows Rodwell </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">N J Dawood) or obscure translations </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"progressives" that are not accepted by mainstream Muslims (e.g. Rashad Khalifa, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Laleh Bakhtiar)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Generally any translation of the Qur'an<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, hadith or sira </ins>should be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">accompanied by </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">original Arabic text </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vetted </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a person with some familiarity with Arabic language</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apologetic or "dialogue" sites <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">should also </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">avoided due </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not being reliable sources concerning mainstream Islamic thought. By their very nature</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they are there to defend Islam from ''criticism''</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they are ''not'' there to reflect current Muslim thought on anything. They are just as guilty of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">type </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bias that sites such as [[Jihad Watch]] or [[Faith Freedom International]] are accused </del>of<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. However</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on the rare occasions they may actually agree with the views </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scholarly Muslim sources, they may be used as a supplementary source</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apologetic or "dialogue" sites <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used when the question arrises of what contemporary Muslim scholars and clerics have </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">say on a given issue</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">purpose </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">historical narrative they should be avoided in favor </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">modern</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">critical historians </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Islam</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The primary religious sources for Islam include the Qur'an and [[Hadith]] collections. WikiIslam <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">uses </del>the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association's [[Compendium of Muslim Texts]]. This <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">includes </del>the respected and widely accepted Qur'an translations of Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal and M. H. Shakir. Hadith translations available from the Compendium of Muslim Texts <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are </del>the translation of Sahih Al-Bukhari by Muhsin Khan, the translation of Sahih Muslim by Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui, the translation of Sunan Abu Dawud by Ahmad Hasan, and the translation of Malik's Muwatta by A'isha Abd-al-Rahman al-Tarjumana and Ya'qub Johnson.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The primary religious sources for Islam include the Qur'an and [[Hadith]] collections. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Until 2017, </ins>WikiIslam <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used </ins>the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association's [[Compendium of Muslim Texts]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(USC-MSA)</ins>. This <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">included </ins>the respected and widely accepted Qur'an translations of Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal and M. H. Shakir. Hadith translations available from the Compendium of Muslim Texts <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were </ins>the translation of Sahih Al-Bukhari by Muhsin Khan, the translation of Sahih Muslim by Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui, the translation of Sunan Abu Dawud by Ahmad Hasan, and the translation of Malik's Muwatta by A'isha Abd-al-Rahman al-Tarjumana and Ya'qub Johnson<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This compendium ceased to function in late 2016, and so is no longer used by Wikiislam.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">From 2017 to the time of writing, Quranx.com is used for both Qur'an and hadith citations by means of templates as described on the [https://wikiislam.net/wiki/WikiIslam:Citing_Sources#Islamic_Text citing sources page]. Quranx.com contains all of the sources and translations from the compendium, including hadiths that were omitted in the USC-MSA collections, as well as additional hadith collections</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. For example, a statement by a scholar about a certain battle in the history of Islam would be a secondary source. The news articles <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Reference archive|1=</del>http://www.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">salon</del>.com<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/news/us_military</del>/?<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">story=/</del>news<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/feature/2011/07/29/us_awol_soldier|2</del>=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2011-07-31}} Fort Hood suspect condemned '09 shootings</del>]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" </del>and "[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1319257/Outcry-over-Malaysian-child-marriages Outcry over Malaysian child marriages]" that report on a development or an incident are also secondary sources. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. For example, a statement by a scholar about a certain battle in the history of Islam would be a secondary source. The news articles [http://www.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jordantimes</ins>.com/?news=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">19888 "Productivity suffers during holy month"</ins>] and "[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1319257/Outcry-over-Malaysian-child-marriages Outcry over Malaysian child marriages]" that report on a development or an incident are also secondary sources. Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Sahabhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Reliable_Sources&diff=104832&oldid=prevSahab: /* Religious Sources */2014-02-28T13:45:21Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Religious Sources</span></span></p>
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</table>Sahabhttps://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=WikiIslam:Reliable_Sources&diff=104766&oldid=prevSahab: /* See Also */2014-02-27T12:54:26Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">See Also</span></span></p>
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