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Summary
Summary
For all Muslims the Qur an is the word of God. In the first centuries of Islam, however, many individuals and groups, and some Shi is, believed that the generally accepted text of the Qur an is corrupt. The Shi is asserted that redactors had altered or deleted among other things all passages that supported the rights of Ali and his successors or that condemned his enemies. One of the fullest lists of these alleged changes and of other variant readings is to be found in the work of al-Sayy r (3rd/9th century), which is indeed among the earliest Shi i books to have survived. In many cases the alternative readings that al-Sayy r presents substantially contribute to our understanding of early Shi i doctrine and of the early and numerous debates about the Qur an in general.
Author Notes
Etan Kohlberg , D.Phil. (1971) in Oriental Studies, Oxford University, is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Imami Shiʿi history, doctrine and literature including A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work (Brill, 1992). Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi D.Phil. (1991) in Oriental and Religious Studies, Sorbonne (Paris), is Professor of Classical Islamic Theology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne. He has published mainly on Imami Shiʿi Islam, including La religion discrete : croyances et pratiques spirituelles en islam shiʿite (Vrin, 2006).
