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When did the consonantal skeleton of the Quran reach closure? Part I
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The Islamic tradition credits the promulgation of a uniform consonantal skeleton (rasm) of the Quran to the third caliph Uthmān (r. 644-656). However, in recent years various scholars have espoused a conjectural dating of the Quran's codification to the time of Abd al-Malik, or have at least maintained that the Islamic scripture was open to significant revision up until c. 700 ce. This two-part article proposes to undertake a systematic assessment of this hypothesis. The first instalment asse...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 77
- Issue:
- 02
- Pages:
- 273-292
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
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- EISSN:
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1474-0699
- ISSN:
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0041-977X
- Source identifiers:
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469371
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- 2015-06-22
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- SOAS, University of London
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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