Revelation and Falsification

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-16782-7
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1056 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies on the Qur'an

For all Muslims the Qur'an is the word of God. In the first centuries of Islam, however, many individuals and groups, and some Shi'is, believed that the generally accepted text of the Qur'an is corrupt. The Shi'is asserted that redactors had altered or deleted among other things all passages that supported the rights of 'Ali and his successors or that condemned his enemies. One of the fullest lists of these alleged changes and of other variant readings is to be found in the work of al-Sayyari (3rd/9th century), which is indeed among the earliest Shi'i books to have survived. In many cases the alternative readings that al-Sayyari presents substantially contribute to our understanding of early Shi'i doctrine and of the early and numerous debates about the Qur'an in general.

Zielgruppe

Students of Islamic religion and literature and the history of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kohlberg, Etan

Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Kohlberg, Etan
Etan Kohlberg, D.Phil. (1971) in Oriental Studies, Oxford University, is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Imami Shi?i history, doctrine and literature including A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work (Brill, 1992).

Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi D.Phil. (1991) in Oriental and Religious Studies, Sorbonne (Paris), is Professor of Classical Islamic Theology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne. He has published mainly on Imami Shi?i Islam, including La religion discrete : croyances et pratiques spirituelles en islam shi?ite (Vrin, 2006).