Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts

by Keith E. Small

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739177532
• ISBN13: 9780739177532
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"