Comparing Qurʾānic Suras with Pre-800 Documents

The dominant formal document type of preserved Arabic pre-800 documents shows a characteristic tripartite structure: in between the invocation and the long main part, there is a self-referring title hādhā kitāb min fulān ʾilà fulān, “The following is a writ from so-and-so to so-and-so.” The Suras of...

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Main Author: Kaplony, Andreas 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2018
In: Der Islam
Year: 2018, Volume: 95, Issue: 2, Pages: 312-366
Further subjects:B Koran Arabic documents Arabic papyri official letters Umayyads Early Abbasids diplomacy
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