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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820396503321

Autore

Nasser Shady Hekmat

Titolo

The transmission of the variant readings of the Quran : the problem of tawatur and the emergence of shawadhdh / / by Shady Hekmat Nasser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Brill

Biggleswade, : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2013

ISBN

1-283-85491-0

90-04-24179-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Texts and studies on the Qur'an ; ; v. 9

Disciplina

297.1

297.1224045

Soggetti

Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Introduction / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- The Variant Readings and the sab'at ahruf of the Qur'ān / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Ibn Mujāhid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Hadd al-Qur'ān and the tawātur of the Canonical Readings / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- The Transmission of the Canonical Readings and the Emergence of Shawādhdh / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- The Nature of the Qur'ānic Variants / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Conclusion and Future Research / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Bibliography / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Index / Shady Hekmat Nasser -- Index of Qur'ānic Quotations / Shady Hekmat Nasser.

Sommario/riassunto

This work is a study of the transmission of the variant readings of the Qurʾān, the canonization of the system Readings, and the emergence of the non-canonical shawādhdh readings. Nasser argues that Ibn Mujāhid and the early Muslim scholars viewed the variant readings as legal rulings aḥkām and that the later generation of Qurrāʾ were responsible for moving the discipline of Qirāʾāt from the domain of fiqh to the domain of Ḥadīth. After studying the theories of tawātur in detail, Nasser shows that the transmission of the system Readings of the Qurʾān failed to meet the conditions of tawātur set by the Uṣūlīs , thus



creating a paradox between the transmission of the physical text, the muṣḥaf , and the transmission of its oral recitation, the “Qurʾān”.