Qur'ans of the Umayyads
Subtitle: a first overview
By: by Francois Deroche
Series: Leiden studies in Islam and society -- v. 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9789004255654; 9789004261853
Subjects: Manuscripts; Textual Criticism; History; Qurʼan
Description: 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the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished.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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.
Table of contents: title: Transcribing the Qurʼan in early Umayyad times: the Codex Parisino- Petropolitanus; title: The written transmission of the Qurʼan in hijazi script: a general appraisal; title: The transformation of the mushaf; title: Imperial scriptoria?