History of the Qur'an -

History of the Qur'an

Approaches and Explorations

F. Redhwan Karim (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2025
Kube Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84774-235-3 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
The Qur’ān is the sacred religious
book of Muslims around the world. Yet its history, from its inception in
seventh-century Arabia to its transmission in the modern world, remains
understudied. The twelve chapters in this book address this lacuna by examining
multifaceted stages in the Qur’ān’s history and transmission through a broad
range of methodological and theoretical approaches. The volume examines the
earliest material evidence of the Qur’ān through its manuscript tradition and
explores their content and form. This includes a focus on the Qur’ān’s unique
orthography and insights into the Sanaa manuscripts. Additionally, this work provides
new insights by broaching upon critical moments in the Qur’ān’s history, such
as the codification of Abu Bakr. A crucial component of the book deals with
approaches to the variant readings of the Qur’ān, understood as being
sanctioned through narrations on the aḥruf. It explores fresh
insights into how Muslim scholars theorised such variances and the way they
related them to the qira’āt, including how they approached the
variant codices of prominent companions. Furthermore, this work explores
understudied non-Qur’ānic transmissions of the Qur’ān alongside the historical
development of Qur’ān translations. This volume advances the field of Qur’ānic
studies and Qur’ānic history.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.4.2025
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Markfield
Sprache englisch
Maße 149 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 1-84774-235-1 / 1847742351
ISBN-13 978-1-84774-235-3 / 9781847742353
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