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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Qurʼan—History [Browse]

Series

• Leiden studies in Islam and society ; v. 1. [More in this series]
• Leiden studies in Islam and society ; volume 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished.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"-- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.

Contents

• Transcribing the Qurʼan in early Umayyad times: the Codex Parisino- Petropolitanus
• The written transmission of the Qurʼan in hijazi script: a general appraisal
• The transformation of the mushaf
• Imperial scriptoria?

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ISBN

• 9789004255654 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 9004255656 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2013039808

OCLC

858366136

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