Bøker av Francois Deroche

For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur'anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!

The codex Parisino-petropolitanus is one of the earliest witnesses of the handwritten transmission of the Qur anic text which has survived to this day. The various fragments which were part of the original manuscript are scattered among various collections; once put together, they provide a unique picture of the state of the text during the 7th century (orthography and textual peculiarities) and of the circumstances in which the canonical version as we know it today took shape physically. The present study, first of its kind, paves the way for a more accurate understanding of the beginning of Islam, based on a significant document, and of the evolution of the Qur an during that period. Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus est l'un des plus anciens t moins de la transmission manuscrite du texte du Coran qui aient t conserv s. Ses diff rents fragments sont dispers s entre plusieurs collections; une fois mis ensemble, ils donnent un aper u unique sur l' tat du texte au 7e si cle (orthographe et particularit s textuelles) et sur les conditions dans lesquelles s'est organis e mat riellement la constitution de la version canonique telle que nous la connaissons. Cette tude, premi re de son genre, ouvre la voie une compr hension plus fine, appuy e sur un document significatif, des premiers temps de l'islam et de l' volution du Coran au cours de cette p riode.