Roshdi Rashed Article contents:The absent textThe hidden textThe truncated textThe summarised or abridged textThe complete text in a unique manuscriptThe complete text in multiple manuscriptsThe master copy or the author...
Ibrahim Chabouh In the vast terrain of the Muslim world there lived people of many races and many creeds; people who - it is said – inherited the cultures and civilizations of the ancients. Across centuries of history, t...
Angelo Michele Piemontese A manuscript is both a text that is, a written document of a certain literary genre, and a handwritten work, be it a codex or a scroll. A manuscript as a whole is endowed with an everlasting val...
Seyyed Hossein Nasr ‘Nūn. By the Pen, and that which they write.’ (Qur’ān, LXVIII: 1) ‘Say.’ Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord, verily the sea would be used up before the Words of my Lord...
Wilfred F. Madelung Human history, according to a common definition, begins with the written word. Before the age of writing, there was only prehistory. Archaeologists and experts dealing with prehistory have, to b...