History of the Qur'an

The Quran is the sacred religiousbook of Muslims around the world. Yet its history, from its inception in seventh-centuryArabia to its transmission in the modern world, remains understudied. Thetwelve chapters in this book address this lacuna by examining multifacetedstages in the Qurans history and transmission through a broad range ofmethodological and theoretical approaches. The volume examines the earliestmaterial evidence of the Quran through its manuscript tradition and explorestheir content and form. This includes a focus on the Qurans uniqueorthography and insights into the Sanaa manuscripts. Additionally, this workprovides new insights by broaching upon critical moments in the Quranshistory, such as the codification of Abu Bakr. A crucial component of the bookdeals with approaches to the variant readings of the Quran, understood asbeing sanctioned through narrations on thea?ruf. It explores freshinsights into how Muslim scholars theorised such variances and the way theyrelated them to theqiraat,including how they approached thevariant codices of prominent companions. Furthermore, this work exploresunderstudied non-Quranic transmissions of the Quran alongside the historicaldevelopment of Quran translations. This volume advances the field of Quranicstudies and Quranic history.