The history of the Qurʾān.

The history of the Qurʾān.

This first complete translation of Theodor Nöldeke's The History of the Qurʾān offers a foundational work of modern Qurʾānic studies to the English-speaking public. Nöldeke's original publication, as revised and expanded over nearly three quarters of a century by his scholarly successors,...

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Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill Academic Pub, 2013.

Series: Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān 8.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.

Subjects:

Koran > Geography.
Qurʼan.
Islam.

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Call Number: BP131.2 .H57 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • The Origin of the Koran
  • Muḥammad's Revelations
  • The Origin of Individual Parts of the Koran
  • The Individual Parts of the Current Koran: The Meccan Sūras
  • The Sūras of the First Meccan Period
  • The Sūras of the Second Meccan Period
  • The Sūras of the Third Meccan Period
  • The Medinan Sūras
  • Muḥammad's Uncanonical Promulgations
  • Written Collections in Muḥammad's Lifetime
  • The Indirect Collectors of the Koran or the Custodians of the Oral Revelation
  • Popular Acquaintance with the Koran under the First Caliphs
  • Collecting and Editing
  • The (First) Collection of Zayd born Thābit
  • The Other Pre-ʿUthmānic Collections
  • The Genesis of the Authorized Redaction of the Koran under the Caliph ʿUthmān
  • The Basmala
  • Sectarian Reproach against the ʿUthmānic Text
  • Administrative Measures for the Realization of the ʿUthmānic Text
  • The Islamic Canon and Its Relation to Its Christian and Jewish Counterparts
  • The Islamic Sources on the Origin of the Revelations and the Genesis of the Book of the Koran
  • Nineteenth-Century Christian Research
  • The History of the Text of the Koran
  • The Variant Readings
  • The Readers and the Variant Readings
  • Literature of the Variant Readings
  • Manuscripts of the Koran
  • Plates
  • Bibliography and Abbreviations
  • Index.