An Early Mushaf According to the Reading of Ibn 'Āmir

Journal of Qur'anic Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-89

  Dutton, Yasin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85129214364     PISSN: 14653591     EISSN: 17551730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/jqs.2001.3.1.71     Document Type: Article

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60. Ibn al-Jazarī, Nashr, ii. 267
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74. al-Dānī, Muqni', pp. 108, 115
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77. See Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 228
78. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a p. 317
79. al-Dānī, Muqni', pp. 108, 114
80. Ibn al-Jazarī, Nashr, ii. 280
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82. See Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 318
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136. al-Bannā', Ithāf p. 246
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148. al-Bannā', Ithaf p. 271
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158. al-Bannā', Ithāf, p. 361.
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161. al-Bannā', Ithaf, p. 361.
162. 'Umar ibn Muhammad, 'Add, f. 37a.
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164. al-Bannā', Ithāf p. 361
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168. al-Bannā', Ithāf, p. 371
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172. al-Ja'bari, Husn al-madad, f. 42b
173. al-Bannā' Ithaf, p. 374
174. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 383.
175. Déroche and Noja Noseda, Le manuscrit arabe 328 (a), p. xvii.
176. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 87.
177. Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāya, i. 424, 292
178. idem, Nashr, ii. 264.
179. Cf. Déroche and Noja Noseda, Le manuscrit arabe 328 (a), p. xxiv, n. 18.
180. Déroche, Abbasid Tradition, pp. 28, 32.
181. Déroche and Noja Noseda, Le manuscrit arabe 328 (a), p. xiii.
182. Déroche, Abbasid Tradition, p. 34.
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184. See Ibn Rushd al-Jadd, al-Bayān wa'l-tahsīl wa'l-sharh wa'l-tawjīh wa'l-ta'līl li-mā fī masā'il al-Mustakhraja, ed. Muhammad Hajjī (20 vols., 2nd edn, Beirut: Dār al-Gharb alIslāmī, 1408/1988), xviii. 275 (also xvii. 33)
185. al-Dānī, Muqni, p. 116.
186. see, for example, Ibn Ghalbūn, Tadhkira, i. 25-29
187. Ibn al-Jazarī, Nashr, I 135-146
188. al-Bannā', Ithāf, p. 7.
189. See al-Bannā', Ithāf p. 119.