History of the Qur'an

Auteur

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
Qur’anic Studies, Islamic Intellectual History, and Arabic Codicology.

Texte du rabat

The Qur'an 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 Qur'an's history and transmission through a broad range ofmethodological and theoretical approaches. The volume examines the earliestmaterial evidence of the Qur'an through its manuscript tradition and explorestheir content and form. This includes a focus on the Qur'an's uniqueorthography and insights into the Sanaa manuscripts. Additionally, this workprovides new insights by broaching upon critical moments in the Qur'an'shistory, such as the codification of Abu Bakr. A crucial component of the bookdeals with approaches to the variant readings of the Qur'an, 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 qira'at, including how they approached thevariant codices of prominent companions. Furthermore, this work exploresunderstudied non-Qur'anic transmissions of the Qur'an alongside the historicaldevelopment of Qur'an translations. This volume advances the field of Qur'anicstudies and Qur'anic history.

Contenu

Acknowledgements v

Stylistic Conventions vii

List of Contributors ix

1. Towards a History of the Qur’ān

F. Redhwan Karim 1

2. Early Qur’ānic Manuscripts: An Overview

François Déroche 27

3. Ancient Scribes and Qur’ānic Manuscripts:

Uncovering Scribal Practices in the Ṣanʿāʾ Palimpsest

Éléonore Cellard 65

4. Writing About the Qur’ān: Scribal Practices of

Qur’ānic Studies Manuscripts from the Fourth/

Tenth century

Yousry Elseadawy 89

5. The Compilation of the Qur’ān during

the Reign of Abu Bakr

Ammar Khatib and Nazir Khan 121

6. Rasm (Qur’ānic Orthography): The Written

Representation of the Recited Text of the Qur’ān

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem 163

7. The View of ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas’ūd on the

‘Uthmānic Qur’ān Compilation

Zahed Fettah 193

8. An Alternative Opinion on the Reality of the

‘Seven Aḥruf’ and Its Relationship with the Qirāʾāt

Yasir Qadhi 221

9. The Multifaceted Sanad Traditions of Extra-Muṣḥaf Qur’ānic Transmission

Khairil Husaini Bin Jamil 281

10. Multivocality, Variegation, and the Trajectories

of “Text”: Ausgangstexte as an Approach to

Qur’ānic Pluriformity

Stephen Cúrto 307

11. The Recitations of the Shīʿah Imams and its

Role in the History of the Qur’ān

Meysam Kohantorabi 355

12. Shaping the Qur’ān’s Journey:

A Global History of Translation

Afsan Redwan 381