The Quran is the sacred religiousbook of Muslims around the world. Yet its history, from its inception in seventh-centuryArabia to its transmission in the modern world, remains understudied. Thetwelve chapters in this book address this lacuna by examining multifacetedstages in the Qurans history and transmission through a broad range ofmethodological and theoretical approaches. The volume examines the earliestmaterial evidence of the Quran through its manuscript tradition and explorestheir content and form. This includes a focus on the Qurans uniqueorthography and insights into the Sanaa manuscripts. Additionally, this workprovides new insights by broaching upon critical moments in the Quranshistory, such as the codification of Abu Bakr. A crucial component of the bookdeals with approaches to the variant readings of the Quran, understood asbeing sanctioned through narrations on the a ruf. It explores freshinsights into how Muslim scholars theorised such variances and the way theyrelated them to the qiraat, including how they approached thevariant codices of prominent companions. Furthermore, this work exploresunderstudied non-Quranic transmissions of the Quran alongside the historicaldevelopment of Quran translations. This volume advances the field of Quranicstudies and Quranic history.
Recenzijos
Presenting a diverse range of perspectives and arguments, this book avidly explores not only the historical contours of the transmission of the text of the Quran, but also the conceptual frameworks and paradigms that intricately shaped its reception.
Mustafa Shah, SOAS University of London, UK
Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Quranic Studies
This volume brings together a variety of different authors of various backgrounds, and paints a strikingly comprehensive picture of the history of the Quran. It successfully brings material evidence, and traditional Quranic sciences into conversation and integrates them to present new and thought-provoking insights.
Marijn van Putten, Leiden University, Netherlands
Author of Quranic Arabic: From Its Hijazi Origins to Its Classical Reading Traditions
'Redhwan Karim's edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to the dynamic and rapidly advancing field of the history of the Qur'an, offering cutting-edge research particularly on the oral and textual transmissions of the Qur'an.'
Muhammad Husain Kazi, Cambridge Muslim College
Acknowledgements v
Stylistic Conventions vii
List of Contributors ix
1. Towards a History of the Qurn
F. Redhwan Karim 1
2. Early Qurnic Manuscripts: An Overview
Franēois Déroche 27
3. Ancient Scribes and Qurnic Manuscripts:
Uncovering Scribal Practices in the an Palimpsest
Éléonore Cellard 65
4. Writing About the Qurn: Scribal Practices of
Qurnic Studies Manuscripts from the Fourth/
Tenth century
Yousry Elseadawy 89
5. The Compilation of the Qurn during
the Reign of Abu Bakr
Ammar Khatib and Nazir Khan 121
6. Rasm (Qurnic Orthography): The Written
Representation of the Recited Text of the Qurn
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem 163
7. The View of Abdullh ibn Masd on the
Uthmnic Qurn Compilation
Zahed Fettah 193
8. An Alternative Opinion on the Reality of the
Seven Aruf and Its Relationship with the Qirt
Yasir Qadhi 221
9. The Multifaceted Sanad Traditions of Extra-Muaf Qurnic Transmission
Khairil Husaini Bin Jamil 281
10. Multivocality, Variegation, and the Trajectories
of Text: Ausgangstexte as an Approach to
Qurnic Pluriformity
Stephen Cśrto 307
11. The Recitations of the Shah Imams and its
Role in the History of the Qurn
Meysam Kohantorabi 355
12. Shaping the Qurns Journey:
A Global History of Translation
Afsan Redwan 381
F. Redhwan Karim is Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Course Leader for the B.A Islamic Studies program at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK. He completed his PhD at SOAS, University of London in Islamic Studies and has published on Quranic Studies, Islamic Intellectual History, and Arabic Codicology.
