The Earliest Meaning of 'Qur'Ān'
Year: 1984
Type: article
Abstract: Students of Islam as well as Muslims themselves customarily think of and use the Arabic word qur'dn primarily as a proper noun with the definite article: al-Qur'an, The Qur'an.1 With this they refer to the collected and written corpus of Muhammad's revelations from God as assembled and arranged in essentially its present form by the most respected original reciters (qurra') or transmitters of the recitation (hamalat al-qur'dn) who were still alive in the reign of the third Caliph, 'Uthman (23/644-35/656).2 As a codified whole, the revelations have
Source: Die Welt des Islams
Author: William A. Graham
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1976464033