Whence Come Qurʾān Manuscripts?: Determining the Regional Provenance of Early Qurʾānic Codices

In studies of early Qurʾānic manuscripts, determining the provenance of these manuscripts is a thorny issue because in most cases they lack endowment notes or colophons. The reports in early Islamic sources regarding textual variants of regional codices ( maṣāḥif al-amṣār ) may contribute to find a...

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Main Author: Vahidnia, Ala (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2021
In: Der Islam
Year: 2021, Volume: 98, Issue: 2, Pages: 359-393
Further subjects:B Qurʾānic manuscripts
B maṣāḥif al-amṣār
B regional codices
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