History of the Qur'an
Approaches and Explorations
$39.54
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2025
Summary
The Qur’ān is the sacred religious book of Muslims around the world. Yet its history, from its inception in seventh-century Arabia to its transmission in the modern world, remains understudied. The twelve chapters in this book address this lacuna by examining multifaceted stages in the Qur’ān’s history and transmission through a broad range of methodological and theoretical approaches. The volume examines the earliest material evidence of the Qur’ān through its manuscript tradition and explores their content and form. This includes a focus on the Qur’ān’s unique orthography and insights into the Sanaa manuscripts. Additionally, this work provides new insights by broaching upon critical moments in the Qur’ān’s history, such as the codification of Abu Bakr. A crucial component of the book deals with approaches to the variant readings of the Qur’ān, understood as being sanctioned through narrations on the aḥruf. It explores fresh insights into how Muslim scholars theorised such variances and the way they related them to the qira’āt, including how they approached the variant codices of prominent companions. Furthermore, this work explores understudied non-Qur’ānic transmissions of the Qur’ān alongside the historical development of Qur’ān translations. This volume advances the field of Qur’ānic studies and Qur’ānic history.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847742346 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847742343 |
| Author: | F. Redhwan Karim |
| Publisher: | Kube Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Kube Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 624g |
| Dimensions: | 148mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
‘Presenting adiverse range of perspectives and arguments, this book avidly explores not onlythe historical contours of the transmission of the text of the Qur’an, but alsothe conceptual frameworks and paradigms that intricately shaped its reception.’
Mustafa Shah, SOASUniversity of London, UK
Editor of TheOxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies
‘A fascinating overview of materials, scripts, writing conventions (including the evolving use of diacritics) and mechanics of Quranic manuscripts, with a bibliography spanning English, French, German, and Turkish sources.
The selection of topics is eclectic, so anyone in the field of Quranic studies will likely find something here of special interest. The volume could serve as the primary textbook for a master’s-level Introduction to the Quran course.
The reviewed volume is a worthwhile contribution to the field.
Suheil Laher
Lead Faculty, Boston Islamic Seminary
Faculty Associate for Quranic Studies, Hartford International University
‘This volume bringstogether a variety of different authors of various backgrounds, and paints astrikingly comprehensive picture of the history of the Qur’an. Itsuccessfully brings material evidence, and traditional Qur’anic sciencesinto conversation and integrates them to present new and thought-provokinginsights.’
Marijn van Putten,Leiden University, Netherlands
Author of QuranicArabic: From Its Hijazi Origins to Its Classical Reading Traditions
‘Redhwan Karim’s edited volume is a timely andsignificant contribution to the dynamic and rapidly advancing field of thehistory of the Qur’an, offering cutting-edge research particularly on the oraland textual transmissions of the Qur’an.’
Muhammad Husain Kazi, Cambridge Muslim College
F. Redhwan Karim
F. Redhwan Karim is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Course Leader for the B.A. Islamic Studies program at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK. He completed his Ph.D. at SOAS, University of London, in Islamic Studies and has published on Qur’anic Studies, Islamic Intellectual History, and Arabic Codicology.
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