The Voice and the Quill. The Paths of Canonization of the Quʾrān : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 2

• Main Author: François Déroche (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Collège de France 2020
• Subjects: Religion & beliefs; islamology; paleography; Islam; manuscripts; Quran; codicology; history of Quran; Arabic language; religion
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How can we hope to understand Islam without knowing how its founding text, the Qurʾān, took shape and then crystalized? The discovery of a palimpsest in Sanaa in 1973 confirmed the existence of other recensions of the Qurʾānic text in the first centuries of Islam. Studies of these documents and of...