Charging Steeds or Maidens Performing Good Deeds: In Search of the Original Quran

Charging Steeds or Maidens Performing Good Deeds: In Search of the Original Qurān brings an important contribution to understanding the development of the Qurānic corpus.

Through a selection of meaningful case studies, the author convincingly argues for a different interpretative approach to the Qurānic text. Taking as a starting point the consonantal skeleton of the holy text, known as the Uthmānic rasm, and offering a critical reading of the Muslim interpretive tradition, such an approach produces a clearer understanding of parts of the Qurān which have defied Muslim and non-Muslim scholars since the early days of Islam.