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<Xref Ref-Type= Forgotten Witness: Evidence for the Early Codification of the Qurʾān Author(s): Estelle Whelan Source: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1998), pp. 1-14 Published by: American Oriental Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/606294 . Accessed: 04/08/2013 06:50 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. American Oriental Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the American Oriental Society. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 140.141.130.120 on Sun, 4 Aug 2013 06:50:32 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions FORGOTTENWITNESS: EVIDENCE FOR THE EARLY CODIFICATIONOF THE QUR'AN* ESTELLEWHELANt COLUMBIAUNIVERSITY Three kinds of historical evidence are examined here that have not previously been seriously con- sidered in relationto the question of codification. The Umayyad inscriptionsfrom the Dome of the Rock have generally been ignored or dismissed because of apparentdepartures from the "canonical" text, as represented by the Cairo edition; here they are analyzed for the evidence they nonetheless provide for the state of the Qur'anic text toward the end of the first hijri century. Equally informative are al- Walid's inscriptions at the Great Mosque of al-Madinah, datable about twenty years later; they were described by eyewitnesses in the first half of the tenth century, when they were still partly visible. Finally, from scatteredindications it is suggested that there was a group of professional Qur'an copyists at al-Madinah at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century. t Estelle Whelan died on 13 October 1997 (ed.). IN THE LAST TWO DECADESa controversy has arisen the keeping of Hafsah, daughter of CUmar.If there was over the period in which the text of Muslim scripture disagreementover language among members of the com- became codified. The traditional Islamic view can be mission, it was to be resolved in accordance with the summarized as follows.' Both Abu Bakr (A.H. 11-13/ dialect spoken by Quraysh. Once the standardtext had A.D.632-34) and CUmar(13-23/634-44) made efforts to been established, several copies were made and sent to gather together the scraps of revelation that had been major cities in the Islamic domain, specifically Damas- written down by the faithful during the lifetime of the cus, al-Basrah, al-Kifah, and perhaps others. Although Prophet, on bones, on palm leaves, on potsherds, and on there are variations in detail, for example, in the list of whatever other materials were at hand, as well as being names of those who served on CUthman'scommission preserved in "the breasts of men."2But it was the third and in the list of cities to which copies were sent, this caliph, CUthman(23-35/644-61), who first charged a basic outline is not in dispute within the Muslim world. small group of men at al-Madinah with codifying and Oral recitation nevertheless remained the preferred standardizingthe text. Alarmed by reported divergences mode of transmission, and, as time passed, variant ver- in the recitation of the revelation, he commissioned one sions of the text proliferated-the kind of organic change of the Prophet'sformer secretaries, Zayd b. Thabit, and that is endemic to an oral tradition. In addition, because several prominent members of Quraysh-'Abd Allah b. of the nature of the early Arabic script, in which short al-Zubayr, SaCidb. al-CAs,and 'Abd al-Rahman b. al- vowels were not indicated and consonants of similar form Harith are those most often mentioned-to produce a were only sometimes distinguished by pointing, writing, standardcopy of the text, based on the compilation in too, was subject to misunderstanding, copyist's error, and change over time. In the early tenth century, at Bagh- dad, Abu Bakr Ibn Mujahid (d. 324/936) succeeded in * I amindebted to Dr.Michael Bates and Dr. Richard N. Ver- reducing the number of acceptable readings to the seven dery andProfessors James Bellamy, Fred M. Donner,and Josef that were predominant in the main Muslim centers of vanEss forhelpful comments on earlierdrafts of thisarticle. the time: al-Madinah,Makkah, Damascus, al-Basrah,and 1 The classic Westernstudy of the history of the text as al-Kifah. Some Qur'an readers who persisted in devi- preserved in Muslim tradition is T. Noldeke, Geschichte des ating from these seven readings were subjected to dra- Qorans, 2nd ed., ed. F Schwally, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1919). For conian punishments. Nevertheless, with the passage of useful brief summaries, with references, see W. M. Watt, Bell's time, additional variant readings were readmitted, first Introduction to the Qur'an (Edinburgh, 1970); A. T. Welch and "the three after the seven," then "the four after the ten." J. D. Pearson, "al-Kur'an,"El2, 5: 400-432. The modem Cairo edition, prepared at al-Azhar in the 2 Noldeke, 13. 1920s, is based on one of the seven readings permitted 1 This content downloaded from 140.141.130.120 on Sun, 4 Aug 2013 06:50:32 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 2 Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.1 (1998) by Ibn Mujahid, that of Abu Bakr CAsim(d. ca. 127/745) conventions."7In supportof his conclusion he noted that as transmittedby Hafs b. Sulayman (d. 180/796). Muslim traditions about early revelation, indeed about Early efforts by Muslim scholars to establish the se- the life of the Prophet and early Muslim history as a quence of the revelation, particularlythe verses revealed whole, are known only from later Islamic literature; at Makkah and those revealed at al-Madinah,were emu- Qur'anic exegesis, for example, first evolved in the late lated by Europeanscholars, who focused on similar prob- eighth and ninth centuries.8 Nor can most early Muslim lems, though often adopting somewhat different criteria traditions be confirmed in contemporary non-Muslim for determining solutions.3 Nevertheless, already in the sources. Wansbrough'sentire analysis was based on the early twentiethcentury Alphonse Minganaseriously chal- assumption that the "canonization"of the Qur'anic text lenged the entire historical framework outlined here.4 and its role in the development of the Muslim commu- Mingana, whose approachwas patently tendentious,5ar- nity followed a trajectory similar to that of Hebrew gued that the Qur'an had not been codified in book form scripture. For example, in connection with "exegetical" until several decades later than was generally accepted, (Wansbrough'scharacterization of much of the content in the reign of the fifth Umayyad caliph, CAbdal-Malik of the Sirah of Ibn Ishhaq,ca. 85-150/704-67, edited by b. Marwan (65-86/685-705). In the 1970s John Wans- Ibn Hisham, d. 218/833) reports of material that also brough went much farther, concluding, on the basis of appears in the "canon,"he declared: "For Hebrew scrip- textual and linguistic analysis, that there is no evidence ture the priority in time of such reports over the actual for a "canonical"version of the Qur'anic text before the reproduction in literary form of prophetical utterances very end of the eighth century at the earliest.6 has been established. To postulate a similar, if not iden- Wansbrough argued that the nature of the text itself tical, process for Muslim scripture seems to me not un- presupposes "an organic development from originally justified, though in this particular instance complicated independent traditions during a long period of transmis- by the redaction history of the Sira itself." He also sion ... juxtaposition of independent pericopes to some cited "the likelihood of a Rabbinic model for the ac- extent unified by means of a limited numberof rhetorical count of an authoritative text produced in committee, namely the Jamnia tradition on the canonization of He- brew scripture."9The vastly different historical contexts 3 See Welchand Pearson, 416-19, especiallyp. 411, referring in which these supposedly parallel processes took place to GustavFliigel's edition of the Qur'anictext. were not explicitly recognized or taken into account in 4 A. Mingana,"The Transmission of the Kur'an,"Journal of Wansbrough'sliterary analysis. In fact the results of this the Manchester Egyptian & Oriental Society (1915-16): 25-47. analysis were frequently cited as grounds for rejecting 5 His bias is apparentin statementslike the following:"In the supposed historical evidence presented in such texts consideringthe questionof the transmissionof the Kur'anac- as the Sirah. By means of this reasoning Wansbrough cordingto Christianwriters, the readerwill feel thathe is more arrived at the conclusion that "concern with the text of in the domainof historicalfacts thanin thatof the precarious scripturedid not precede by much the appearanceof the Hadith. ." (Mingana, 34). masoretic [exegetical] literature as it has in fact been 6 J. Wansbrough, Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of preserved":that is, in his view the Qur'anic text assumed Scriptural Interpretation (Oxford, 1977); cf. J. Chabbi, "His- its canonical form more or less simultaneously with the toire et traditionsacree: La biographieimpossible de Maho- appearance of commentaries on it (tafsir).10He took as met,"Arabica 43.1 (1996): 190-94. In a recentarticle Y. D. confirmation of this view Joseph Schacht's conclusion Nevo ("Towardsa Prehistoryof Islam,"Jerusalem Studies in Arabicand Islam17 [1994]:108-41) has attemptedto confirm 7 the intervalsuggested by Wansbroughby tracingthe gradual Wansbrough,47; cf.
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