Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts

Informationen zum Autor By Keith E. Small 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. Zusammenfassung 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 E Small, Keith E. Small
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780739177532
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7753-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, Middle East, Literary studies: general, The Koran (Qur’an), The Koran