Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān

Shady Hekmat Nasser, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is a senior Lector of Arabic at Yale University.

“…a detailed and well written study.”Shahrul Hussain in The Muslim World Book Review34.4 (2014).“Nasser’s work is thorough and thought provoking; his efforts to understand the history of the transmission of the variant readings of the Qurʾān have surely paid off.”Ghassan el Masri in Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015), 170-173."Cet ouvrage important souligne la nécessité d’une édition véritablement critique du Coran, contenant des variantes de lecture, en même temps qu’il en fournit des éléments, théoriques et empiriques, indispensables à sa réalisation."J. Dean in: REVUE D’HISTOIRE ET DE PHILOSOPHIE RELIGIEUSES, 2014, Tome 94 n° 4.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The variant readings and the sabcat aḥruf of the Qur’ānChapter 2: Ibn Mujāhid and the canonization of the seven Chapter 3: Ḥadd al-Qur’ān and the tawātur of the canonical Readings Chapter 4: The transmission of the canonical Readings and the emergence of Shawādhdh Chapter 5: The Nature of the Qur’ānic variants Conclusion and future Research Bibliography