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[44] Dodge, Fihrist, vol. 1, p. 70; Bergsträsser, GQ, vol. 3, pp. 116 f;
Jeffery, Materials, p. 1; Watt and Bell, Introduction, pp. 48 f; Watt,
Religionen, p. 183; EI², s.v. "Kur'an," pp. 408 f. See also p. 325, below.
[45] For a short biography of Ibn Shanabudh and some of the old readings
used by him, see: Dodge, Fihrist, vol. 1, pp. 70 f. Cf. Jeffery, Materials,
p. 1; Watt and Bell, Introduction, p. 49; EI², s.v. "Kur'an," pp. 408 f.
[46] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 2, pp. 79 f; Watt and Bell,
Introduction, p. 60.
[47] This view is somewhat speculative, however. See: Nöldeke and
Schwally, GQ, vol. 2, pp. 68 f; Watt and Bell Introduction, pp. 61 f.
[48] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 2, pp. 63 f.
[49] The sura listings given in Dodge, Fihrist, vol. 1, pp. 49 f, are
indicative of this.
[50] Bergsträsser, GQ, vol. 3, p. 258.
[51] Ibid., vol. 3, pp. 260 f; Jeffery in ECMD, p. 116, n. 56.
[52] Bergsträsser, GQ, vol. 3, p. 251.
[53] In an unpublished paper, J.H. Smith cites Lings and Safadi, The
Qur'an, A Catalogue... of Qur'an Manuscripts, (1976), pp. 12 f, 17.
[54] In an unpublished paper, J.H. Smith references Lings and Safadi, The
Qur'an, A Catalogue... of Qur'an Manuscripts, p. 11 and Gilchrist, Jam
al-Qur'an, pp. 144 f.
[55] Dodge, Fihrist, vol. 1, pp 49 f; Suyuti, El-Itkan, vol. 1, pp. 3 f.
[56] Suyuti, El-Itkan, vol. 1, 365 f. Cf. Margoliouth, "Additions," JRAS,
(1939), p. 53.
[57] Suyuti, El-Itkan, vol. 1, pp. 273 f, 307 f.
[58] Ibid., vol. 1, pp. 157 f.