UID:
almahu_9949702124802882
Format:
1 online resource (pages)
ISBN:
9789004228795
Series Statement:
Texts and studies on the Qurʾān ; 8
Content:
This first complete translation of Theodor Nöldeke's The History of the Qurʾān offers a foundational work of modern Qurʾānic studies to the English-speaking public. Nöldeke's original publication, as revised and expanded over nearly three quarters of a century by his scholarly successors, Friedrich Schwally, Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Otto Pretzl, remains an indispensable resource for any scholarly work on the text of the Qurʾān. Nöldeke's segmentation of the surahs into three Meccan periods and a Medinan one has shaped all subsequent discussions of the chronology of the Qurʾān. The revisions and expansions of Nöldeke's initial discussions of the orthography and variant readings of the text have found a new audience among those contemporary scholars who seek to create a more sophisticated understanding of the Qurʾān's textual development.
Note:
Front Matter -- The Origin of the Koran -- Muḥammad's Revelations -- The Origin of Individual Parts of the Koran -- The Individual Parts of the Current Koran: The Meccan Sūras -- The Sūras of the First Meccan Period -- The Sūras of the Second Meccan Period -- The Sūras of the Third Meccan Period -- The Medinan Sūras -- Muḥammad's Uncanonical Promulgations -- Written Collections in Muḥammad's Lifetime -- The Indirect Collectors of the Koran or the Custodians of the Oral Revelation -- Popular Acquaintance with the Koran under the First Caliphs -- Collecting and Editing -- The (First) Collection of Zayd born Thābit -- The Other Pre-ʿUthmānic Collections -- The Genesis of the Authorized Redaction of the Koran under the Caliph ʿUthmān -- The Basmala -- Sectarian Reproach against the ʿUthmānic Text -- Administrative Measures for the Realization of the ʿUthmānic Text -- The Islamic Canon and Its Relation to Its Christian and Jewish Counterparts -- The Islamic Sources on the Origin of the Revelations and the Genesis of the Book of the Koran -- Nineteenth-Century Christian Research -- The History of the Text of the Koran -- The Variant Readings -- The Readers and the Variant Readings -- Literature of the Variant Readings -- Manuscripts of the Koran -- Plates -- Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The History of the Qurʾān Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013, ISBN 9789004212343
Language:
English
