{"id":7899,"date":"2024-05-16T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:14:51","slug":"corpus-coranicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/corpus-coranicum\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Coranicum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Corpus Coranicum<\/a> is a European platform supporting scholarship on the Qur’an. Initiated in 2007 by Islamic studies scholar and Qur’anic studies Professor Angelika Neuwirth, the project is today directed by Michael Marx<\/a> from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities<\/a>. Primarily funded by the German federal government and the federal state of Brandenburg, Corpus Coranicum received external funding from French-German projects Coranica <\/a><\/em>and Paleocoran<\/a><\/em> between 2010 and 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Corpus Coranicum takes the long overdue step of systematically analysing of the oldest Qur’anic manuscripts as well as documenting the variant readings of the Qur’an within the Islamic literature.” <\/em><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/corpuscoranicum.de\/en\/about\/research<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The main goal of Corpus Coranicum<\/a> is to study the historical context in which the Qur’an emerged and developed, and its impacts on the Qur’anic text. To do so, the research team analyses the oldest manuscripts and documents variant readings within the Islamic literature. The first part of the project involved creating a database of digitized manuscripts and building the tools necessary for their analysis (transliteration system, font-type, guidelines on describing and dating manuscripts, etc.). Further developments included a multilingual (Hebrew, Syriac, Ancient South Arabian, Ancient Ethiopic, etc.) database of textual variants present in early Islamic sources. Today, the platform includes four databases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n