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Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts.

This book pursues the two main goals of textual criticism concerning ancient texts to the text of the Qur'an: 1) to discern the earliest available form of the text, and 2) to illuminate the consequent history of the text. Keith Small shows that the earliest obtainable text is an early edited fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Small, Keith E., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Arabic transliteration system
  • Introductory matters. A critical text for the Qur'ān?
  • Descriptions and pictures of the manuscripts
  • Observing the textual variants. Orthographic variants involving long vowels
  • Copyist mistakes
  • Diacritical mark variants and variants affecting grammar
  • Rasm variants
  • Variant verse divisions
  • Physical corrections to manuscripts
  • Evaluating the textual variants. Variants in manuscripts compared to those in Islamic records
  • Intentionality and non-intentionality with variants
  • Oral and written textual transmission
  • Conclusions. Concluding reflections.