Correlating Some Early Ḥijāzī and Kūfan Qurʾān Fragments to their Ancestral ʿUthmānī Codices
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https://doi.org/10.31436/alburhn.v5i2.174Keywords:
Quran, manuscript, fragments, Quran codices, Uthman's Mushaf, Parisino-petroplitanusAbstract
Through a palaeographical and comparative analysis of certain Quran fragments—preliminarily deemed to have belonged in the mid-first to early second Islamic century—this paper attempts to provide a scheme of their possible ancestral codices transcribed during the reign of the third Muslim caliph ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān. It examines how those parchments reflect 44 cases of consonantal variations in their texts, which were reported and elaborated by early Quran experts, including Ibn Abī Dāwūd al-Sijistānī (d. 316/928) in al-Maṣāḥīf, and the fifth-century Andalusian Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī (d. 444/1052) in his Muqniʿ. The paper does not aim to classify those parchments according to their readings, which were systematically canonized later by Ibn Mujāhid (d. 324/936), but according to their province and the earlier codices on which they were based. It would help us to test the veracity of accounts maintained in Islamic sources on the earliest codices of ʿUthmān.
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