Parution: F. DEROCHE, "Qur’ans of the Umayyads. A First Overview", Brill, 2013.

Qur’ans of the Umayyads. A First Overview François Déroche, EPHE, Paris For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur’ans of the Umayyads, François Déroche offers a chronology of the various developments which marked the period, in an approach combining philology, art history, codicology and palaeography. The conclusions he re..