The Qur'anEl-Itkan, vol. 1,509. Cf. the text discrepancies of the `Uthmanic text of the
Qur'an in GQ, vol. 3, pp. 26 f, and the Lewis Palimpsest of the Qur'an, as
given in GQ, vol. 3, pp. 53 f, 97 f.
[35] See the photographic plates after p. 274 in GQ, vol. 3; and also the
photograph in Campbell, Qur'an, p. 125.
[36] Bergsträsser, GQ, vol. 3, pp. 251 f; cf. Nöldeke, "Qur'an", p. 26; Watt
and Bell, Introduction, pp. 47 f; Watt, Religionen, p. 182; EI², s.v. "Kur'an,"
pp. 408 f.
[37] See Campbell, Qur'an, pp. 126 f; EI², s.v. "Kur'an," p. 408.
[38] Suyuti, El-Itkan, vol. 1, pp. 143 f. He also gives a tradition whereby
seven copies were said to have been made.
[39] Jeffery, Materials, p. 8. Cf. Al-Kindi in ECMD, p. 457; Nöldeke,
"Qur'an," p. 23.
[40] Bergsträsser, GQ, vol. 3, pp. 9 f; EI², s.v. "Kur'an," p. 408. In the first
reference a listing of various readings is given.
[41] See Jeffery in ECMD, p. 116, n. 56. Al-Kindi, (ECMD, p. 458)
claims that al-Hajjaj made a standard text of the Qur'an and had copies
made and sent them to Egypt, Syria, Medina, Mecca, Kufa and Basra.
Al-Kindi states that al-Hajjaj then destroyed all the other Qur'an codices
available to him. Al-Hajjaj is well known for having despised the Qur'an
text of Ibn Mas`ud; Sunan Abu Dawud, vol. 3, p. 1303.
[42] Watt and Bell, Introduction, p. 48.
[43] For listings of their names, see Bergsträsser, GQ, vol. 3, pp. 160 f;
Jeffery, Materials, p. 1, n. 4; Watt and Bell, Introduction, p. 49; Watt,
Religionen, p. 183; EI², s.v. "Kur'an," p. 409.