03.00.2. Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction Sources and References 1. THE INITIAL COLLECTION OF THE QUR’AN TEXT. The Qur’an’s Development During Muhammad’s Lifetime The First Collection of the Qur’an Under Abu Bakr Perspectives on the Initial Collection of the Qur’an The Missing Verses Found with Abu Khuzaimah 2. THE UTHMANIC RECENSION OF THE QUR’AN. Did Abu Bakr’s Codex have Official Status?

Uthman’s Order to Burn the Other Codices The Revision of Zaid’s Codex of the Qur’an The Qur’an Text as Standardised by Uthman 3. THE CODICES OF IBN MAS’UD AND UBAYY IBN KA’B.

Abdullah ibn Mas’ud: An Authority on the Qur’an Text Ibn Mas’ud’s Reaction to Uthman’s Decree The Variant Readings in Ibn Mas’ud’s Codex Ubayy ibn Ka’b: Master of the Qur’an Reciters 4. THE MISSING PASSAGES OF THE QUR’AN. The Mushaf: An Incomplete Record of the Qur’an Text Al-Naskh wa Al-Mansukh: The Doctrine of Abrogation The Missing Verse on the Insatiable Greed of Man Umar and the Verses of Stoning for Adultery 5. SAB’AT-I-AHRUF: THE SEVEN DIFFERENT READINGS. The Sab’at-i-Ahruf in the Hadith Literature The Period of Ikhtiyar: The "Choice" of Readings Ibn Mujahid’s Final Definition of the Seven Ahruf Reflections on the Unification of the Qur’an Text 6. THE COMPILATION OF THE QUR’AN IN PERSPECTIVE. The Qur’an’s Testimony to its own Compilation A "Master Copy of the Qur’an" in the Masjid an-Nabi? A review of the History of the Qur’an Text 7. THE EARLY SURVIVING QUR’AN MANUSCRIPTS. The Initial Development of the Written Text Kufic, Mashq, and the Other Early Qur’anic Scripts A Study of the Topkapi and Samarqand Codices