Evidence for the early history of the Qur’an

EDITING AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF EARLY MANUSCRIPTS

10:30 AM ASMA HELALI, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique The San‘ā’ Palimpsest : Introduction to Philological and Literary Aspects 11:30 AM BEHNAM SADEGHI, Stanford University A Non-‘Uthmānic Qur’anic Manuscript from the First Half of the Seventh (First) Century and its Relation to the Recensions of ‘Uthmān and the Prophet

EPIGRAPHY, PALEOGRAPHY, AND ART HISTORY

1:30 PM CHRISTIAN JULIEN ROBIN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Epigraphic Texts from Arabia and the Koran : Some Indirect Light 2:30 PM FRANÇOIS DÉROCHE, École Pratique des Hautes Études

EARLY MUSLIM REPORTS AND THE QIRĀ’ĀT GENRE

10:30 AM MICHAEL MARX, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Two Central Questions : (1) Testing the Qirā’āt by Manuscripts ; (2) Contextualizing the Qur’an in Late Antiquity 11:30 AM YASIN DUTTON, University of Cape Town Orality, Literacy and the “Seven Ahruf” Hadīth”

TEXTUAL STUDIES

1:30 PM NEAL ROBINSON, Sogang University The Dynamics of the Qur’anic Discourse : Tradition and Redaction 2:30 PM DEVIN STEWART, Emory University Conjectural Emendation and Anomalies in the Qur’anic 4:00 PM BEHNAM SADEGHI, Stanford University Stylistic Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Qur’anic Passages : Most Frequent Morphemes, Infrequent Words, and Verse Length 5:00 PM MICHAEL COOK, Princeton University Concluding remarks and general discussion

NB : nous remercions Madame la Professeure Françoise Micheau de nous avoir signalés ce colloque. (Mehdi AZAIEZ)

(Source : www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/)