NMC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Surah, Tashkent, Recension
18 Oct 2016
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NMC103H1F WEEK 3: QURANIC SCRIPTURE AND ARABIC SCRIPT: September/23/2014
• The Qu’a
• The itodutoy suah is alled fatihah eaig the opeig.
• Separated into the medinan and meccan surahs.
• Meccan has doctrinal beliefs, belief in one God, disbussion of past prophets.
• Medinan chapters deal with the law, family relationships, divorce, slaves etc.
• There is a different one can distinguish between the two.
• We find in the quran, echoes of Torah and the Christian New Testament for example. The
treatment of the last prophets, ex. Jesus and Mary.
• The contents o the quran were revelaed to the prophet mohammed, through angel Gabriel
according to the Muslim tradition.
• The quran was revealed over a period of 23 years, beginning when he was at age 40.
• The siptue is elieedto e the eodieet of God’s od.
• Communicated orally through the Arabic language.
• “uah , Yusuf ese : these ae the eses of the lea ook..
• Veses of the Qua hae hetoial uality … Ayat’al Kusi
• Kursi can mean throne/seat.
• Rhetoial uality as so geat, that thee ae people dyig fo it hih is alled aat’ul
ua
• The ua is iiitale, also efeed to as the iale of Qua.
• Problem of translation into other languages.
• First translations of the Quran were made into Persian. (interlinear translation)
• This was made in the 11th century. Although the quran was communicated orally and muslims
consider the hearing of the quran to be part of its meaning is conveyed through the sound of
the quran.
• Despite this, it is referred to as a book (kitaab).
• the quran was written in bits andpieces when the surahs were revealed and written on stones
and other materials available.
• The 3rd of the first 4 calips, uthman ordered the collection and transcription of the Quran.
Muslims were now spreading out to various places beyond the Arabian frontier, and feared that
quran readers in these towns outside Arabia might introduce mistake into the text and it seems
he decided that an official version of the quran was needed to guard the original text.
• This is alled the ua of utha ad ay plaes lai to possess it. Thee ae opies of this
in taskent, topkapi, and a city in Egypt but it has’t ee authetiated to e the ua of
uthman.
• First official recension was made during the calip of uthman, however, the earliest parts
ofsuriving quran were in the 7 to 8th century.
• The language of the quran is often mdifficult to comprehend and believed that has a zahir
dimension and watin (literal and hidden meaning).
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