François Déroche

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the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!

A First Overview

Qur’ans of the Umayyads

This book is based on a study of the pecularities of one of the earliest Qurʾanic manuscripts preserved (the codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 7th century); it provides an analysis of the conditions of the written transmission of the Qurʾan and reconsiders the constitution of the canonical version. Ce livre, qui étudie les particularités d'un des plus anciens manuscrits coraniques conservés (le codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 7e siècle), analyse les conditions de la transmission écrite du Coran et reconsidère la façon dont s'est constituée la version canonique.

Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus

La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l'islam

Michael Friedrich

Nuria de Castilla

The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards that threatened their survival. Many of these treasured books are long gone, but there remain hosts of evidence enabling one to reconstruct the collections to which they belonged, found in ancient buildings, literary accounts, archival documentation and, most crucially, catalogues. With such material at hand or, in some cases, the manuscripts of a certain library which have come down to us, it is possible to reflect on the nature of these libraries of the past, the interests of their owners, and their role in the intellectual history of the manuscript age.

Libraries in the Manuscript Age

المدخل الى علم الكتاب المخطوط بالحرف العربي

Istambul Seen from Cairo

Annie Berthier

An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script

Islamic Codicology

François Déroche

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