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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Re: Qur'an histories
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Date: 15 Dec 90 01:31:15 GMT
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zama@midway.uchicago.edu (iftikhar uz zaman) writes

! In article <1990Dec12.022249.20354@nntp-server.caltech.edu> you write:
! >While looking through the first 750 entries of the 1,434 listings
! >about the Qur'an in the California Library system on-line catalog, I
! >encountered this entry:
! >
! >634. Jeffery, Arthur.
!       Materials for the history of the text of the Qur'an : the old codices :
!     the Kitab al-masahif of Ibn Abi Dawud, together with a collection of the
!     variant readings from the codices of Ibn Ma'sud, Ubai, 'Ali, Ibn...  New
!     York : AMS Press, 1975.
!         UCB   Law Lib   BP131 .M37
! >
! >These look to be codices that occurred very soon after the death of
! >the Prophet (PBUH). We don't have this in our library. Has anyone any
! >information about it? Thank you!
! 
! We certainly have the Jeffery book in our library--actually it is
! pretty well-known among (us) "Orientalists."  Is it the book itself
! you are interested in, or the variant reading of Ibn Mas`ud etc?
! These variant reading are to be found in many detailed tafsirs.  One
! which I know of for sure is Bayan al-Quran of Ashraf Ali Thanawi--at the
! end of every sura he gives a list of all the verses which have variant
! readings associated with it, along with the variants themselves.
! But information on variant readings (usually referred to under the heading
! "qira'at") can be found in just about any tafsir which is detailed (eg
! goes beyond ten volumes or so...)
! 
! Iftikhar