عنوان

Intentional Changes in Qur'an Manuscripts

Number

TL48447

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Intentional Changes in Qur'an Manuscripts

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Daniel Alan Brubaker

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rice University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

345

Text of Note

Committee members: Bongmba, Elias; Cook, David B.; Rippin, Andrew; Sanders, Paula

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-15455-8

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religious Studies

Body granting the degree

Rice University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

This dissertation examines intentional changes in ten early Qur'ans and a group of early Qur'an fragments. With some exceptions, scholars of the Qur'an's history have given priority to Muslim traditional accounts of its early transmission and establishment. These sources acknowledge a certain degree of flexibility in the text. Manuscripts have been accepted as proof of early origin but generally treated as a secondary witness to that origin. Divergence from today's standard has been variously credited to flexibility of readings (a'ruf), developing orthography of the Arabic language, downplayed as owing to inferior copies, or considered unimportant because secondary to a universally acknowledged and known oral tradition preserved in the hearts of the believers. However, the earliest Muslim historical traditions concerning Islam and Qur'anic origins were not first written until the second half of the 8th century AD. I methodologically assert priority of the manuscripts, the earliest extant dating to the latter years of the 7th century AD, as witness to the written Qur'an's early history. The manuscripts, I find, indicate that the text of the Qur'an was not immediately established in every detail, nor was oral tradition strong enough or unanimous enough to prevent written variants in the form of alternate spellings, alternate words or phrases, omissions, or inclusions that precipitated later revisions or standardization of the pages themselves but that in some cases remain.

Religion; Religious history; Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Abbasid Qur'ans;Arabic orthography;Oral Qur'an;Qur'an;Qur'an manuscripts;Qur'anic calligraphy;Sanaa manuscripts;Scribality;Textual criticism;Umayyad Qur'ans

Beck, Christopher

Subdivision

Religious Studies

Rice University

Call Number

1728149542; 3729544

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[Thesis]

276903

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