The One and the Many: The Early History of the Qur'an
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English | 328 pages | Yale University Press (22 Mar. 2022) | 0300251327 | PDF | 4.84 Mb
“There is no one better placed than François Déroche to write the history―and tell the story―of how the Quran went from words uttered by Muhammad to inviolable canonical scripture. This is a meticulous, lucid, and fascinating book.”―Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University
According to Muslim dogma, the recited and written text of the Qur’an as we know it today scrupulously reflects the divine word as it was originally sent down to Muhammad. An examination of early Islamic sources, including accounts of prophetic sayings, all of them compared with the oldest Qur’anic manuscripts, reveal that plurality was in fact the outstanding characteristic of the genesis and transmission of the Qur’an, both textually and orally.
