Qur'ans of the Umayyads : a first overview /

Qur'ans of the Umayyads : a first overview /

For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur'anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur'ans of the Umayyads , François Déroche offers a chronology of the various develo...

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Other Authors: Déroche, François.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2014.

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248731.

Subjects:

Qurʼan > Manuscripts.
Qurʼan > Criticism, Textual.
Qurʼan > History.

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Call Number: BP100.3 .D47 2014

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Summary:For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur'anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur'ans of the Umayyads , François Déroche offers a chronology of the various developments which marked the period, in an approach combining philology, art history, codicology and palaeography. The conclusions he reaches challenge the traditional account about the writing down of the Qur'an and throw a new light on the role of the Umayyads in its handwritten diffusion. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 155 pages, [45] pages of plates) : facsimile (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004261853
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