DURAN, Muhammet Ali Celal Bayar Üniversitesi - İlahiyat Fakültesi - Tefsir Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

NAMES OF THE SURAH ON THE MANUSCRIPT QURANS: THE CASE OF SÜLEYMANİYE LIBRARY

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This paper examines the historical manuscripts of the Qur’an preserved at the Suleymaniye Library of Manuscripts, one of the richest libraries in this field, in terms of the names of the Qur’anic surahs. The manuscripts examined here are more than eight hundred and were written in different periods in various places in the Muslim world. The main question of the paper is what names were chosen for the surahs by the scribes. This can reveal the scribes’ points of view about the surahs. The paper also addresses the questions how many names mentioned in the literature of tafsir were assigned to the surahs in the manuscripts and how much similar or different the handwritten copies of the Qur’an are to or from the printed ones in terms of the names of the surahs. The paper suggests that the Qur’anic manuscripts are very diverse in terms of the names and that these manuscripts even have some rare names not mentioned in the literature of tafsir.

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Manuscript , Qur’anic Manuscript , Surah , The Names of Surah

Celal Bayar University Journal Of Social Sciences

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