![]() This method has been proven by Western academia to be an efficient tool in dating the early Islamic traditions and involves analysis of both matn (text) and isnād (chain of transmission) with an emphasis on finding a correlation between the two. In order to achieve this, the traditions are examined using isnād-cum-matn method. The paper examines both Shī’ite and Sunnī traditions on the issue, aiming to date them back to the earliest possible date and, if possible, verify their authenticity. ![]() Abī Ṭālib collated the first copy of the Qur’ān, right after the demise of the Prophet. The Shī’ite school of thought has claimed that ʿAlī b. Little to no attention has been given to the traditions on ʿAlī b. The history of the text of the Qur’ān has been a longstanding subject of interest within the field of Islamic Studies, but the debate has so far been focused on the traditions about the codices of Caliphs Abū Bakr and ʿUthmān b. ![]() Next, before the conclusion of the article, an updated hypothesis for the early writing and transmission of the Qurʾān is presented, taking into account the existence of minor variations in the old codices, the reports about an ʿUthmānic commission issuing a standard text, and the fact that no prototype manuscript has been discovered. Far from suggesting a multiplicity of voices, the doctrine of jihād is characterized by overall consistency and adherence to core principles, pointing to a likely single origin. It also accords with an examination of the theme of jihād in the Qurʾān, the conclusions of which were presented at the 2017 International Qur'anic Studies Association conference in Boston. The structural consistency illuminated here indicates that one author or authority likely arranged the Qurʾān, a finding in accordance with recent stylometric analysis of the text carried out at Princeton University. This type of connection is identified throughout the phases of revelation, from the early Meccan period to the late Medinan one. Against this, it highlights an example of structural continuity: that of center-periphery connection between adjacent sūras. This article challenges the view, common among Western academics since early last century, that the Qurʾān was left incomplete as a book and did not take final shape until well after the Prophet's death. Keywords: Qur'anic studies, Qur'an, early Islam, Islamic studies, early Islamic history, early Islam, genesis of Islam, Syriac studies, Arabic and Islamic studies, early Islamic historiography, Judeao-Christianity, SunnaRecitation styles, Ibn Mujahid, text criticism, qira'at Słowa kluczowe: studia koraniczne, Koran, koranistyka, wczesny islam, historia wczesnego islamu, dzieje islamu, geneza islamu, pochodzenie islamu, egzegeza koraniczna, egzegeza, judeochrześcijaństwo, sunnastyle recytacyjne, Ibn Mudżahid, krytyka tekstu, qira'at In this context the article touches also on the interrelationship of the oral and written traditions of the Qur’an, Ibn Muǧāhid’s arbitrary choice of the seven qirā’āt and finally the arrival at the modern popular (“standard”) version of the Qur’anic text. The Muslim tradition credits the compilation of a uniform consonantal skeleton of the Qur’an to caliph ‘Uṯmān (mid-7th century CE), whereas Western scholars also operate with dates ranging from late-7th to even mid-9th century. a (single or multiple) original version(s) of the text from which all subsequent manuscript versions and readings stem, is an ongoing quest for scholars of Quranic studies, in the Western and Eastern hemisphere. The reconstruction of a critical text of the Qur’an, i.e. The quest for authographic / interpretative text-forms of the Qur’anic revelations is an attempt to reach back as far as possible into the earliest history of Islam. ![]() 165-174, Wydawnictwo Polskiego Towarzystwa Orientalistycznego The paper is an attempt to sum up efforts being made in the field of Qur’anic Studies to come up with a critical edition of the text of the Qur’an – the holy book Islam – basing on oldest, extant Quranic manuscripts and secondary literature, and this in order to enable text criticism based on source texts. Grodzki, Marcin, Historical evolution of the Qur’ānic text – from ‘Uṯmān to Ibn Muǧāhid and beyond, Przegląd Orientalistyczny, no 2-3/2020, pp.
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