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The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an

The Problem of <i>Tawatur</i> and the Emergence of <i>Shawadhdh</i>

Author: Shady Hekmat Nasser   Series: Texts and Studies on the Qur'an

In The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur an Nasser studies the canonization of the system Readings, the theories of tawatur, and the emergence of the non-canonical shawadhdh readings.

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In The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur an Nasser studies the canonization of the system Readings, the theories of tawatur, and the emergence of the non-canonical shawadhdh readings.

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In The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur an Nasser studies the canonization of the system Readings, the theories of tawatur, and the emergence of the non-canonical shawadhdh readings.

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Critic Reviews

“"...a detailed and well written study."Shahrul Hussain in The Muslim World Book Review 34.4 (2014)."Nasser's work is thorough and thought provoking; his efforts to understand the history of the transmission of the variant readings of the Quran have surely paid off."Ghassan el Masri in Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015) , 170-173.”

“…a detailed and well written study.”Shahrul Hussain in The Muslim World Book Review34.4 (2014).“Nasser’s work is thorough and thought provoking; his efforts to understand the history of the transmission of the variant readings of the Qurʾān have surely paid off.”Ghassan el Masri in Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015), 170-173."Cet ouvrage important souligne la nécessité d’une édition véritablement critique du Coran, contenant des variantes de lecture, en même temps qu’il en fournit des éléments, théoriques et empiriques, indispensables à sa réalisation."J. Dean in: REVUE D’HISTOIRE ET DE PHILOSOPHIE RELIGIEUSES, 2014, Tome 94 n° 4.

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About the Author

Shady Hekmat Nasser, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is a senior Lector of Arabic at Yale University.

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This work is a study of the transmission of the variant readings of the Quran, the canonization of the system Readings, and the emergence of the non-canonical shawadhdh readings. Nasser argues that Ibn Mujahid and the early Muslim scholars viewed the variant readings as legal rulings akam and that the later generation of Qurra were responsible for moving the discipline of Qiraat from the domain of fiqh to the domain of adith. After studying the theories of tawatur in detail, Nasser shows that the transmission of the system Readings of the Quran failed to meet the conditions of tawatur set by the Uulis , thus creating a paradox between the transmission of the physical text, the muaf , and the transmission of its oral recitation, the "Quran".

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Publisher
Brill
Published
9th November 2012
Pages
252
ISBN
9789004240810

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