The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān (324/936)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40197-6
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, 914 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1386 g

In The Second Canonization of the Qur'an, Nasser studies the transmission and reception of the Qur'anic text and its variant readings through the work of Ibn Mujahid (d. 324/936), the founder of the system of the Seven Eponymous Readings of the Qur'an. The overarching project aims to track and study the scrupulous revisions the Qur'an underwent, in its recited, oral form, through the 1,400-year journey towards a final, static, and systematized text.

For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed documentation of all the variant readings of the Qur'an as recorded by Ibn Mujahid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than 3,500 audio files of Qur'anic recitations of variant readings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nasser, Shady

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1: Preliminaries. The Second Canonization of the Qur'an

Chapter 2: Survival of the fittest

2.1: The Irregular readings of the Canonical Readings

2.2: Sixty-Six Problematic Transmissions in Ibn Mujahid’s Kitab al-Sab'a

Chapter 3: Hadith and Qur'an rijal criticism

Chapter 4: Orality revisited. The Written Transmission of Qira'at

4.1: The Regional Codices

4.2: Early different forms of Qira'at transmission

Chapter 5: The Nature of the Qur'anic variants

5.1: Standardization of Arabic and the Qur'anic text through the principles of Qur'anic recitation (usul al-Qira'a)

5.2: The individual variants (farsh) of the Qur'an

Conclusion and future research

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Shady H. Nasser, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is associate professor of classical Arabic at that university. He has published several articles in Qur'anic studies and classical Arabic literature, including The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an (Brill, 2013).