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UNIVERSITY
OFST.
ANDREWS
Department
of Arabic
Studies
STUDIES
IN
TWO
TRANSMISSIONS
OF
THE
QUR'AN
A thesis
submitted
for
the
degree of
DOCTOR
OF PHILOSOPHY
by Adrian
Alan
Brockett
1984
I dedicate this thesis
to
to
Susan,
Fiona and
Andrew,
and to
myMother,
John and
Margaret.
ABOVE
ALL
I
WOULDLIKETO THANK
my
wife
Susan
for her help in
so
many
ways
throughout
the
writing
of
this
thesis. I would also like
to
thank
my
supervisor,
Dr.
J.
Burton,
for his valuable assistance. I
cannot
mention
everyone else here who has helped me,
but
I would like
to
single
out
a
number
of friends
whom
I would especially like
to
thank
-
Jim
and
R'kia
Colville, Michael Cook,
Dr.
Patricia
Crone,
Peter
George, G.D. Hargreaves,Haider
Abbas
Hussain, Prof.
W.
Madelung,
Dr.
Andrew
Rippin,
ZahiaRoula,
Prof.
R.B.
Serjeant,
and R.N. Smart.
This
does
not mean
of course
that
they
necessarily agree
with
any
conclusions I have reached.
My
thanks
are
due
to
members
of
the
staff of
the
University
Computing
Departmentand
Laboratory,
in
particular
to
Bruce Mitchell who helped me over
many
problems of
text-formatting,
and
to
Lesia
~nller,
Dr.
Malcolm Bairr
and
Peter
Bailey, who very
kindly wrote
me
programmes
for various purposes.
Preface
.
page
1
lnt
rod
uction
7
PART
ONE
The
copies
used
for
com parison
1
The
I:Iaf~
copy
. . . . . . . . . . .
9
2
The other
I;Iaf~
copies
consulted
. . .
15
3
Variations
between
the
~af~
copies
45
1
General
variations
.
.
45
2
Particular
variations
. . . . . .
S3
4
The Warscopy
. . . . . . . .
..
63
5
The other
\Vars
copies
consulted
. 66
6
Variations
between
the
\Vars
copies
77
PART
TWO
The
oral
history
of
the
two
transmissions
7
The
first
century and
a
half.
.
85
8
Subsequent oral history
95
1
Of theHafs
transmission
97
2
Of
the
\Vars transmission
.
102
PART
THREE
The
differences between
the
two
transmissions
9
Consistent
di ffere nces . . . . .
III
11
Muslim
attitudes
to
the
graphic
differences
1:34
10
The other
differences
....
122
1
Differences
in
the
voc al for Ins
124
2
Differences
in
the
graphic
fornls
131
12
The
extent
to
which
the
differences affect
the
sense
137
Conclusion
. . . . . . . . .
142
Endnotes.
. . .
.....
.
144
Apvendix I :
al-Qur'an
106:
1,
2
215
Index
of
Qur'an
references
27G
Plates . . . . . . . . .
2~S
Ap~endi.t
II
:
Nluqatil
on
.sura
106
253
BibliognL'p
h
1J
• . . . . .
261
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