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The Second Canonization of the QurʾÄn (324/936)
Ibn MujÄhid and the Founding of the Seven Readings
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In The Second Canonization of the QurʾÄn, Nasser studies the transmission and reception of the QurʾÄnic text and its variant readings through the work of Ibn MujÄhid (d. 324/936), the founder of the system of the Seven Eponymous Readings of the QurʾÄn. The overarching project aims to track and study the scrupulous revisions the QurʾÄn underwent, in its recited, oral form, through the 1,400-year journey towards a final, static, and systematized text.
For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed documentation of all the variant readings of the QurʾÄn as recorded by Ibn MujÄhid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than 3,500 audio files of QurʾÄnic recitations of variant readings.
For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed documentation of all the variant readings of the QurʾÄn as recorded by Ibn MujÄhid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than 3,500 audio files of QurʾÄnic recitations of variant readings.
Shady H. Nasser, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is associate professor of classical Arabic at that university. He has published several articles in QurʾÄnic studies and classical Arabic literature, including The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the QurʾÄn (Brill, 2013).
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1: Preliminaries. The Second Canonization of the QurʾÄn
Chapter 2: Survival of the fittest
2.1: The Irregular readings of the Canonical Readings
2.2: Sixty-Six Problematic Transmissions in Ibn MujÄhidâs KitÄb al-SabÊ¿a
Chapter 3: ḤadÄ«th and QurʾÄn rijÄl criticism
Chapter 4: Orality revisited. The Written Transmission of QirÄʾÄt
4.1: The Regional Codices
4.2: Early different forms of QirÄʾÄt transmission
Chapter 5: The Nature of the QurʾÄnic variants
5.1: Standardization of Arabic and the QurʾÄnic text through the principles of QurʾÄnic recitation (uṣūl al-QirÄʾa)
5.2: The individual variants (farsh) of the QurʾÄn
Conclusion and future research
Bibliography
Foreword
Chapter 1: Preliminaries. The Second Canonization of the QurʾÄn
Chapter 2: Survival of the fittest
2.1: The Irregular readings of the Canonical Readings
2.2: Sixty-Six Problematic Transmissions in Ibn MujÄhidâs KitÄb al-SabÊ¿a
Chapter 3: ḤadÄ«th and QurʾÄn rijÄl criticism
Chapter 4: Orality revisited. The Written Transmission of QirÄʾÄt
4.1: The Regional Codices
4.2: Early different forms of QirÄʾÄt transmission
Chapter 5: The Nature of the QurʾÄnic variants
5.1: Standardization of Arabic and the QurʾÄnic text through the principles of QurʾÄnic recitation (uṣūl al-QirÄʾa)
5.2: The individual variants (farsh) of the QurʾÄn
Conclusion and future research
Bibliography
All interested in Arabic and QurʾÄnic studies, and anyone concerned with the history of the transmission of the QurʾÄnic text and its variant readings.