TY  - BOOK
AU  - Déroche,François
TI  - Qur'ans of the Umayyads: a first overview 
T2  - Leiden studies in Islam and society
SN  - 9789004261853
AV  - BP100.3 .D47 2014
U1  - 297.1/224042297.1224042 
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill.
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Introduction -- Transcribing the Qurʾan in Early Umayyad Times: The Codex Parisino-petropolitanus -- The Written Transmission of the Qurʾan in Ḥijāzī Script. A General Appraisal -- The Transformation of the Muṣḥaf -- Imperial Scriptoria? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Figures; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished.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. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004261853
ER  -