Parution: F. DEROCHE, “Qur’ans of the Umayyads. A First Overview”, Brill, 2013.
Qur’ans of the Umayyads.
A First Overview
François Déroche, EPHE, Paris
For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur’ans of the Umayyads, François Déroche offers a chronology of the various developments which marked the period, in an approach combining philology, art history, codicology and palaeography. The conclusions he reaches challenge the traditional account about the writing down of the Qur’an and throw a new light on the role of the Umayyads in its handwritten diffusion.
Biographical note
Table of contents
Abbreviations
Foreword Introduction
Chapter 1
Transcribing the Qur’ân in early Umayyad times:
The Codex Parisino-petropolitanus
Chapter 2
The written transmission of the Qur’ân in ḥijāzī script
A general appraisal
Chapter 3
The transformation of the muṣḥaf
Chapter 4
Imperial ‘scriptoria’?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index of Manuscripts
Infos:
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Alice KADRI (3 octobre 2013). Parution: F. DEROCHE, “Qur’ans of the Umayyads. A First Overview”, Brill, 2013. Diwan. Consulté le 21 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/npy6
