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Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Déroche, François [Browse]

Series

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

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the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished.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. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Transcribing the Qurʾan in Early Umayyad Times: The Codex Parisino-petropolitanus
• The Written Transmission of the Qurʾan in Ḥijāzī Script. A General Appraisal
• The Transformation of the Muṣḥaf
• Imperial Scriptoria?
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index of Manuscripts
• Figures.

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ISBN

90-04-26185-0

OCLC

865650835

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004261853

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