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سلَك كتاب «النصّ القرآني الخالد عبر العصور» سبيلًا جديدًا في إخراج المصاحف والقِطَع والأجزاء القرآنية المخطوطة، معتمدًا على ما أسماه: منهج الإثبات البصري، وتأتي هذه المقالة لتعرِّف بهذا الكتاب، ومنهج مؤلِّفه، وأهم خلاصاته ونتائجه.
This paper provides updated digital images of four Qurʾān fragments from Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum (OIM) that appeared in Nabia Abbott’s Rise of the North Arabic Script, and calls attention to features of their paleography and... more
Considered one of the most important documents in the history of the transmission of the Qurʾān, the Sanʿāʾ palimpsest (Codex Sanʿāʾ 1) is remarkable because of its unique lower text (i.e., erased text), which differs from the... more
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This talk focuses on an ancient Qur’ānic manuscript, discovered in the ‘Amr Mosque in Fustat (Old-Cairo), in the early 19th century. The manuscript is today fragmentary and dispersed around the world. It is nevertheless remarkable in its... more
The scribing of Qur’ānic codices today has special artistic features. One of the most important features is the systematic and organized writing of Qur’ānic verses in each part (juz’), and page. Today’s most famous name is the Qur’ān... more
“‘The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qurʾan in the First Centuries AH’ by Asma Hilali aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the transmission of the Qurʾān in the early Islamic centuries...
محاضرة ألقاها الدكتور طيار آلتي قولاج باللغة التركية في أكاديمية برلين براندنبرغ للعلوم الإنسانية
ترجمه إلى العربية: معتز حسن
مراجعة وتعليق: أحمد وسام شاكر
ترجمه إلى العربية: معتز حسن
مراجعة وتعليق: أحمد وسام شاكر
"The study of early Qur’ānic manuscripts emerged in academia as early as the late 18th century. François Déroche identifies the origins of this quest with the Danish theologian and orientalist Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834).... more
Pour la communauté scientifique, l’histoire de l’élaboration du Coran demeure pleine d’incertitudes et de zones d’ombre. Dans quelles conditions s’est constituée la Vulgate ? Quand et comment est-on parvenu à la fixation définitive du... more
This is a study of the Quranic manuscript Arabe 334a held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is a vocalized manuscript representing a Quranic reading tradition that falls outside the canonical ten reading traditions known to us... more
The aims of this thesis are to apply the two main goals of textual criticism as practiced with the New Testament to the text of the Qur’ān: 1) to discern the earliest possible form of the text, and 2) to illumine the history of the text.... more
This study aims to reconstruct an early Qur’ānic manuscript tradition, probably used in Egypt during Umayyad times. I compare the Codex Amrensis 1 to several other manuscripts sharing common features.
In early quranic Manuscripts the name of the prophet ʾIbrā hı ̄m occurs in two different spellings either ﺍ ﺑ ﺮ ﻫ ﻢ or ﺍ ﺑ ﺮ ﻫ ﻴ ﻢ. These two spellings are spread haphazardly throughout the Quran. Close examination... more
This paper takes a novel approach to the question of when and how the text of the Quran was codified into its present form, usually referred to as the Uthmanic text type. In the Quran the phrase niʿmat allāh/rabbi-ka "the grace of... more
This article (re-)considers a unique Qurʾān manuscript in ciphered characters (Ar. al-taʿmiya), reminiscent of the ring letters of the Graeco- Egyptian tradition (Brillenbuchstaben). The case of this Qurʾān manuscript offers an... more
Recently identified on the antiquities market, the Copto-Qurʾānic Palimpsest represents an important artifact for the history of the transmission of the Qurʾān. Because its biblical lower (i.e., erased) text is in Coptic, the qurʾānic... more
An interview with Dr. Alba Fedeli, Research Fellow at CEU, on early Qur'an manuscripts and digital philology (and other technical issues).
The interview is available online:
http://nama-center.com/DialogueDatials.aspx?ID=57
The interview is available online:
http://nama-center.com/DialogueDatials.aspx?ID=57
تنظم مبادرة مخطوطات القرآن سلسلة من المحاضرات العلمية عن التراث القيرواني المخطوط. للمشاركة: أرسل مقترحك إلى البريد الإلكتروني ashaker@quranmss.com المحاور: تاريخ الجامع الكبير والمكتبة العتيقة بالقيروان المصاحف العتيقة بالقيروان... more
Modern historians assert that the earliest manuscripts of the Qurʾān were written in an Arabic scriptio defectiva, devoid of orthographic aids such as consonantal diacritics and vowel markers. In fact, the earliest extant... more
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A concise chronological survey of select facsimile editions of early Qur’an manuscripts.
URL: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/shaker_facsimile-editions/
URL: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/shaker_facsimile-editions/
المَصَاحِف المُبكِّرة من مجموعة جانّ جوزيف مارسيل O.V.Vasilyeva O.M.Yastrebova ترجمة وتعليق: أحمد وسام شاكر مقتطف: أعلنت المكتبة الإمبراطورية العامة، في تقريرها المطبوع لعام 1864 (سانت بطرسبرغ، 1865- ص 22-24)، عن تحصلها على... more
Annabel Teh Gallop, Illuminated Qur'an manuscripts from Aceh in Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia. In: Jalan sunyi filologi: merangkai kisah, menimba hikmah, ed. Agus Iswanto, Aditia Gunawan. Jakarta: Perpustakaan Nastional... more
نظَّم مركز دراسة المخطوطات الإسلامية بمؤسسة الفرقان للتراث الإسلامي مؤتمراً دولياً بعنوان (القرآن الكريم من التنزيل إلى التدوين) يومي 25 و26 نوفمبر 2017 بالعاصمة إسطنبول، بحضور حفنة من الباحثين في الدراسات القرآنية والكوديكولوجيا العربية.... more
Survey of the key achivements regarding my research project funded in 2020 by the Central Bureau of Cults, affiliated to the Ministry of the Interior, Paris, France
Guest post for the Qur'an Manuscript Studies Blog about fragments of the Qur'an discovered in the Cairo Genizah.
تناولت هذه الدراسة محاولة الشيخ محمد مصطفى الأعظمي للبرهنة على التزام المصاحف بالرسم العثماني عبر العصور المختلفة من خلال معالجته للمخطوطات القرآنية، وحاولت هذه الدراسةُ الإجابةَ عن عدة تساؤلات أهمها: من محمد مصطفى الأعظمي؟ وما مساهمته... more
Al-Zanjānī’s Qur’ān, Iranian Masterpiece in Kufic script from 531/1137: MS 44 in Al-Khizānat al-Gharawiyya (Imām Alī’s Shrine) in Najaf, and its Isolated Leaves in the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Qur’ānic codex, MS 44 in Al-Khizānat... more
This article reconsiders the origin, both geographical and cultural, of the Blue Koran and suggests a date and place for its production. Through a codicological comparison with a Western manuscript, it seems possible to establish a link... more
"إن حقل الدراسات القرآنية قد خسر الكثير برحيل عالِم فذ كنويا نوزاده وأفول نجمه مبكرًا، على أنه كسب كذلك مجهودًا لافتًا، فمن هو سرجو نويا؟ وما هي مجهوداته؟"
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This paper studies a set of Qur’an fragments in Kufic, at the end of which some colophons attributed to the script of one of the Shi’ite Imams have been added. The author first introduces ten manuscripts, their physical features and the... more