User talk:Nsoufraji/sandbox

Overall fantastic and sound contributions! I thought the additions you made were comprehensive and beneficial to understanding your topic. Only a couple of notes: "prophet's" should be "prophets'" when referring to the plural possessive. I also might add the sources by pressing "cite" and adding the source at the end of the sentence as a footnote. The mention of Sunni theology under the "female prophets" section seemed a bit out of place, I might reword it to something closer to "Certain traditions reject this interpretation as being bid'a (heretical innovation), such as Sunni theology." or something along those lines just so the information seems a bit more eased into the rest of the paragraph. The sentence "The warnings and promises transmitted by Allah through the prophets to their communities serve to legitimize Muhammed's message" might be viewed as more of an opinion as there isn't a source cited next to this that confirms that this "legitimized" the message. You might want to reword this and/or include a source next to it. I think the sources that you do have appropriate and accessible, my only advice would be to make sure to include more. Make sure to support your findings from the Qur'an with outside sources. Overall grade: A! Most changes I could think to make were small and didn't inhibit the overall understanding of what you wrote. Again, good contributions and research. Just make sure to include more sources to support your writings. Also make sure to bold the headings of individual sections just so that they stand apart more from the rest of the paragraph.

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

Augments the discussion of female prophets in the Qur'an.

Discusses a key characteristic of Qur'anic prophesy in terms of their "signs and proofs."

Two comments on what needs improvement:

"Female Prophets" section: delete anything that is attributed to a questionable source. This section needs to be improved by references to secondary scholarship on the topic. I bought Kecia Ali's new article precisely for this purpose (available on UTC Learn). You can also refer to Amina Wadud's discussion of Mary in her "Qur'an and Woman."

The entry needs a "lead section" that summarizes the most important points of the entry that gives a quick summary of the entry in plain language. See the "Editing Wikipedia" guide for examples. (Group task)

This article overall still suffers from a lack of clear organization, and questions in my mind as to the relevancy of some existing sections (Scriptures and Other Gifts, Numbers, Holy Gifts, Other Persons). How to deal with this is up to your group; I would recommend reviewing them, determining if they are essential to the topic, and if so then revise a bit to make their relevancy clear. This does not require more research on your part; it asks you to insert some clarifying language, such as better introductory sentences, in those sections. (Group task that I will restate in a group feedback to everyone).

"Characteristics" section: the discussion here needs to be improved with references to scholarly works (see Ernst, Gade's "Intro to the Qur'an) on typologies of prophethood in the Qur'an. This will address the existing Wikipedia comment that the section relies too much on primary sources. Remember how we discussed this in class--all of that should be useful in these revisions. The functions of the prophets for how the Qur'an represents Muhammad is a clear content gap in this section and the article overall.

Preliminary grade: B/C Jaclyn-Michael (talk) 21:12, 8 April 2019 (UTC)