Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts

Informationen zum Autor Keith E. Small is an associate research fellow and visiting lecturer for the Centre for Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Relations at the London School of Theology. Klappentext This book pursues the two main goals of textual criticism concerning ancient texts to the text of the Qur'an: 1) to discern the earliest available form of the text, and 2) to illuminate the consequent history of the text. Keith Small shows that the earliest obtainable text is an early edited form of the Arabic consonantal text, but not the original texts described in Islamic historical sources.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Small, Keith E. Small
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780739142899
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4289-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, Middle East, Literary studies: general, The Koran (Qur’an), The Koran