User talk:Amygugliemino/sandbox

Sources for Islamic Eschatology: You definitely greatly improved on this section with the information you included. I like that you stated that one of the main functions of the Qur'an itself is to push an eschatological message. Also, I think your clarification about what hadith actually is and how it is secondary to the Qur'an is an important addition. Your sources also appear to be credible and accurately placed. My only suggestion might be to also include a little bit about the process of eschatological scholarship from a Shia perspective. Shias use the Qur'an but they use a different set of hadith books than Sunnis which might be helpful to mention for the sake of inclusivity. Overall, a well-written paragraph!

Major and Minor Signs: I think you are right in changing the order of this section. Having the major signs before the minor signs makes a lot more sense and gets more to the heart of the issue.

Quran to Qur'an: A good correction to make as "Qur'an" is a more appropriate transliteration of the word in Arabic

I also see that you have improved grammar and syntax in other sections such as "The Mahdi" and "The Resurrection of the Dead" as well as some overall reorganization of previous work. I think that this helps in making the overall article much more readable and cohesive.

Overall grade: A Well written original work with thoughtful reorganization and edits

My only suggestion would be that if you are making further edits to include Shia perspectives as well if you can. (There is a Shia eschatology page but it is very sparse and doesn't go into very much detail)

JM's Peer Review
Two comments on what your individual changes do well:

Your edits to reorganize the entire entry and sections within it help to improve the readability of the entry.

The new section on "Sources" for Islamic eschatology is very helpful.

Two comments on what needs improvement:

"Sources for Islamic Eschatology": thinking about this section as an uninformed reader, I would have the following questions: how much eschatological content is in the Qur'an? How have scholars described the eschatological message of the Qur'an? How have scholars interpreted the eschatological content of the Qur'an? What about gender and Qur'anic eschatology (Wadud devotes an entire chapter on this in her book Qur'an and Woman)? Remember that the main Wikipedia input on this page states that it relies too much on primary sources. Your edits should try to correct that as much as possible by inserting scholarly discussion on subthemes in the entry.

There are still elements of the existing entry related to eschatology and the Qur'an that need to be rewritten (and not necessarily researched). "Last Judgement in the Qur'an" is one of them.

I agree with Norah's suggestion to add discussion from Shi'a views (only related to the Qur'an's eschatological content). This needs to be part of the "Sources" section, and anywhere in the entry where you discuss scholarly work and / or discussions. Let me know if you have questions.

Lastly, these suggestions for improvement are for each of your group members (I'll send you a group feedback message via Wikiedu).

Preliminary grade: B Jaclyn-Michael (talk) 19:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)