posted on 2020-06-03, 08:08authored byShady Nasser
In The
Second Canonization of the Qurʾān, Nasser studies the
transmission and reception of the Qurʾānic text and its variant readings
through the work of Ibn Mujāhid (d. 324/936), the founder of the system of the
Seven Eponymous Readings of the Qurʾān. The overarching project aims to track
and study the scrupulous editing and revisions the Qurʾān underwent, in its
recited, oral form, through the 1,400-year journey towards a final, static, and
systematized text. For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed
documentation of all the variant readings of the Qurʾān as recorded by Ibn
Mujāhid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than
5,000 audio files of Qurʾānic recitations of variant readings.