The Book of the Cow: An Early Qurʾānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)

Bys: Tillier, Mathieu and Vanthieghem, Naïm

In the eighth century CE, the Christian theologian John Damascene referred to a Book of the Cow among the sacred texts of the Muslims. P. Hamb. Arab. 68 not only represents so far the earliest known Qurʾānic manuscript preserved on papyrus, but also bears witness to an independent circulation of the Sūra of The Cow in late seventh- or early eighth-century Egypt. Significant deviations from the commonly accepted text of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004677399
• ISBN13: 9789004677395
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 216 Pages