Textual Criticism and Qur'an Manuscripts by Small Keith E.;

Author:Small, Keith E.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1658993
Publisher: Lexington Books

The extensive scope of such a project becomes more apparent when the Qur’ānic palimpsests are brought into the picture. It may be legitimately suggested that the original texts of the palimpsests were too different from the standard to be corrected, so that they had to be completely erased and rewritten with the “standard” text. The manuscripts surveyed for this study conformed to that standard well enough that only small erasures and rewrites were necessary. The most severe example in these manuscripts was BNF 370a which had half of a line of text defaced. This section is too short to contain the full standard text so the full text was squeezed in. It was defaced so effectively that the original reading cannot be determined with certainty.

With the Qur’ānic manuscript tradition, that so many dogmatic corrections were observed in a limited random sampling is a significant testimony to the strength of the efforts made to standardize its text. This is perhaps a significant representative indication of the directions in which corrections were made.

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