The Abbasid Tradition: Qurans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries

The Abbasid Tradition: Qurans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries, Francois Deroche's 1992 study from the Nour Foundation, is a scholarly catalogue of early Abbasid era Quran manuscripts by a leading specialist in Quranic manuscript studies, part of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art catalogue series. Its strength is direct codicological examination of the manuscripts themselves by a specialist in the field. Its limit is that it catalogues manuscripts within one particular private collection; broader claims about early Quranic manuscript traditions generally should also draw on studies of manuscripts held elsewhere.