Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts

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ID19946114
AuthorsKeith E Small (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages209
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTextual criticism and Qur'an manuscripts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLexington Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/9780739142912
OpenAlexW647929938
ISBN9780739142912
Open LibraryOL25043114M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'an manuscripts. Keith Small analyzes a defined portion of text from the Qur'an with two aims in view: to recover the earliest form of text for this portion, and to trace the historical development of this portion to the current form of the text of the Qur'an. Small concludes that though a significantly early edited form of the consonantal text of the Qur'an can be recovered, its original forms of text cannot be obtained. He also documents the further editing that was required to record the Arabic text of the Qur'an in a complete phonetic script, as well as providing an explanation for much of the development of various recitation systems of the Qur'an. This controversial, thought-provoking book provides a rigorous examination into the history of the Qur'an and will be of great interest to Quranic Studies scholars

Art · Criticism · Literature · Textual criticism · Education and Islamic Studies · Families in Therapy and Culture · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Analys och tolkning · Criticism, interpretation · Hermeneutics · Hermeneutik · Historia · History and criticism · Islamic literature · Islamic literature, history and criticism · Koran · Koranen · Qurʼan · Textkritik

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