‘An Arabic Qurʾān, that you might understand’: Qurʾān fragments in the T-S Arabic Cairo genizah collection
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Connolly, Magdalen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-848X
Posegay, Nick https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-9520
Abstract
The Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments of the Cairo genizah collections have not yet drawn much interest among Arabic and genizah scholars. This paper aims to bring them to the attention of a broader audience by presenting the palaeographic features (§3) and vocalisation systems (§4) of eleven Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments from the Cambridge University Library’s Taylor-Schechter Arabic collection. While the focus of this paper is the physical appearance of these Qurʾān leaves, their presence in the Cairo genizah (§1.1) – a Jewish ‘storeroom’ for retired sacred texts – is also tentatively explored (§1.2, §5).
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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4610 Library and Information Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
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Journal of Islamic Manuscripts
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1878-4631
1878-4631
1878-4631
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11
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Brill
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Isaac Newton Trust (18.08(P))
Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2018-024)
Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2018-024)
Leverhulme Trust; Isaac Newton Trust; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation