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This book is based on a study of the pecularities of one of the earliest Qurʾanic manuscripts preserved (the codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 7th century); it provides an analysis of the conditions of the written transmission of the Qurʾan and reconsiders the constitution of the canonical version. Ce livre, qui étudie les particularités d'un des plus anciens manuscrits coraniques conservés (le codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 7e siècle), analyse les conditions de la transmission écrite du Coran et reconsidère la façon dont s'est constituée la version canonique.

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Francois Deroche [...] ouvre la voie a une comprehension plus fine avec cette etude, premiere de son genre, appuyee sur un document signicatif, des premiers temps de l'islam et de l'evolution du Coran au cours de cette periode. Alexandra Ath. Photopoulou, Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 2010-2. In this important work, Francois Deroche undertakes a masterly analysis - careful, meticulous, and exhaustive - of what he calls the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus [...] In this pathbreaking work, Deroche has set the bar very high , David S. Powers, Islamic Law and Society Volume 18, No. 2, 2011. ... a most significant advance in the study of early Qur be;anic manuscripts, which, though obviously crucial for the historiography of early Islam, remains so far an under-researched field. Emmanuelle Stefanidis, in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 86.3 (2011), 740-741. doi:10.1017/S0038713411001709

Francois Deroche [...] ouvre la voie a une comprehension plus fine avec cette etude, premiere de son genre, appuyee sur un document signicatif, des premiers temps de l'islam et de l'evolution du Coran au cours de cette periode. Alexandra Ath. Photopoulou, Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 2010-2. In this important work, Francois Deroche undertakes a masterly analysis - careful, meticulous, and exhaustive - of what he calls the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus [...] In this pathbreaking work, Deroche has set the bar very high , David S. Powers, Islamic Law and Society Volume 18, No. 2, 2011. ... a most significant advance in the study of early Qur'anic manuscripts, which, though obviously crucial for the historiography of early Islam, remains so far an under-researched field. Emmanuelle Stefanidis, in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 86.3 (2011), 740-741. doi:10.1017/S0038713411001709

Francois Deroche [...] ouvre la voie a une comprehension plus fine avec cette etude, premiere de son genre, appuyee sur un document signicatif, des premiers temps de l'islam et de l'evolution du Coran au cours de cette periode. Alexandra Ath. Photopoulou, Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 2010-2. In this important work, Francois Deroche undertakes a masterly analysis - careful, meticulous, and exhaustive - of what he calls the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus [...] In this pathbreaking work, Deroche has set the bar very high , David S. Powers, Islamic Law and Society Volume 18, No. 2, 2011. ... a most significant advance in the study of early Qur anic manuscripts, which, though obviously crucial for the historiography of early Islam, remains so far an under-researched field. Emmanuelle Stefanidis, in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 86.3 (2011), 740-741. doi:10.1017/S0038713411001709

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Francois Deroche, Ph.D in History (1987, Sorbonne) is Professor of History and codicology of the Arabic handwritten book at Ecole pratique des hautes etudes in Paris. He has published Islamic codicology (2005) and many contributions on early Quranic manuscripts.

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