La Transmission Ecrite Du Coran Dans Les Debuts de L'Islam

This book is based on a study of the pecularities of one of the earliest Qur'anic manuscripts preserved (the codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 7th century); it provides an analysis of the conditions of the written transmission of the Qur'an and reconsiders the constitution of the canonical version. Ce livre, qui etudie les particularites d'un des plus anciens manuscrits coraniques conserves (le codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 7e siecle), analyse les conditions de la transmission ecrite du Coran et reconsidere la facon dont s'est constituee la version canonique.

Review:

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