The Living Qur’ān /

The Living Qur’ān / / Ali J. Hussain.

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qur’ān’s history, from the first oral recitation to the four published Variants in active circulation today. In the process of unraveling the complicated relationships between the oral...

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Hussain, Ali J.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:IQSA Studies in the Qurʾan , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations for Commonly Cited Sources
  • Note on Definitions, Conventions, Style, and Aims
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Written Qur’ān
  • The Qur’ān’s Origins
  • Semitic Precursors
  • The Arabic Language and Its Script
  • The Paper Revolution
  • Verse, Chapter, and Other Divisions
  • Part II: The Oral Qur’ān
  • The Inherent Orality of the Qur’ān
  • Interactions Between the Written and Oral Qur’ān
  • Versions of the Oral Qur’ān
  • The Qur’ānic ‘Cambrian Explosion’ and the Seven Aḥruf
  • Delimiting the Proliferation
  • Part III: The Qur’ān Today
  • Transmission
  • Canonization
  • Four Active Qur’āns in Print Today
  • Methodology and Statistical Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Timeline
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A Underrepresented and Misrepresented Qur’ānic Minorities
  • Appendix B Plates/Images
  • Appendix C Discrepancy Indexes – Scans
  • Appendix D Discrepancy Indexes – Patterns and Categories
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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