Not intended to be comprehensive, but to provide an introduction to each subject with additional depth for those who desire it, with some topics covered more extensively than others.
For further readings, consult the relevant sections of Déroche et al. Islamic Codicology (2006) (chapter footnotes and "Guide to Further Reading"), Gacek's Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001) and Supplement (2008), additional bibliographies listed topically, and the latest issues of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts.
Afshar, Iraj. "Manuscripts in the Domain of the Persian Language." In General Introduction to Persian Literature, Ed. J.T.P.de Bruijn (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2009): 408-429
Amat, Akbar et al. A Handbook of Chaghatay manuscript transcription. Lawrence, KS: Annotating Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO). Version 1 (2018-06-03) available online
Arnold, Thomas and Adolf Grohmann. The Islamic Book: A Contribution to its Art and History from the VII-XVIII Century. [Paris] : The Pegasus Press, 1929.
Atiyeh, George N., Ed. The Book in the Islamic World : The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995.
Berthold, Cornelius. "Approaching the Last Decades of Arabic Manuscript Culture (1870–1930): The Content of Handwritten and Printed Books." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 15, 2 (2024): 145-208
Codicologica: [towards a science of handwritten books = vers une science du manuscrit = Bausteine zur Handschriftenkunde], Eds. A. Gruys and J. P. Gumbert. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1976-1980.
COMSt Handbook = Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction, Eds. Alessandro Bausi et al. Hamburg: Tredition, 2015. Available online http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/handbookonline.html
Déroche, François, et al. Manuel de codicologie des manuscrits en écriture arabe. [Paris] : Bibliothèque nationale de France, c2000.
-------. al-Madkhal ilá ʻilm al-kitāb al-makhṭūṭ bi-al-ḥarf al-ʻArabī. Landan : Muʼassasat al-Furqān lil-Turāth al-Islāmī, 2005.
-------. Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script. London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2006.
------- and Valentina Sagaria Rossi. I manoscritti in caratteri arabi. Roma : Viella, 2012.
Déroche, François. Le livre manuscrit arabe : préludes à une histoire. Paris: [Paris] : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004.
Endress, Gerhard. "Handschriftenkunde." In Grundriss der arabischen Philologie, Ed. Wolfdietrich Fischer (Wiesbaden : Reichert, c1982-), Bd. 1 Sprachwissenschaft, 271-315.
Gacek, Adam. "A Select Bibliography of Arabic Language Publications Concerning Arabic Manuscripts." Manuscripts of the Middle East (MME) 1 (1986): 106-108.
-------. The Arabic Manuscript Tradition: A Glossary of Technical Terms and Bibliography. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
-------. “Manuscripts.” In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Ed. Josef W. Meri (New York: Routledge, 2006): vol.2, 474-476.
-------. The Arabic Manuscript Tradition: A Glossary of Technical Terms and Bibliography – Supplement. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
-------. Arabic Manuscripts: A Vademecum for Readers. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Ghelichkhani, Hamid Reza (Ḥamīd Riz̤ā Qilīchʹkhānī). Zarʹafshān : farhang-i iṣṭilāḥāt va tarkībāt-i khūshnivīsī, kitābʹārāyī va nuskhahʹpardāzī dar shiʻr-i Fārsī = Zar afshān: a dictionary of terms relating to calligraphy, ornament, and the making of manuscripts as found in classical Persian poetry. Tihrān: Farhang-i Muʻāṣir, 2013.
--------. A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts, edited by Shervin Farridnejad and translated by Rebecca Stengel. Leiden: Brill, [2021].
Gruendler, Beatrice. "Aspects of Craft in the Arabic Book Revolution." In Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500, edited by Sonja Brentjes and Jürgen Renn (London and New York: Routledge, 2016): 31-66.
--------. The Rise of the Arabic Book. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
al-Ḥalwajī, ʻAbd al-Sattār. Naḥwa ʻilm makhṭūṭāt ʻArabī. al-Qahirah: Dar al-Qahirah, 2004.
Laroque, Claude, Ed. La peinture et l’écrit au Moyen-Orient, supports et tracés. Paris: HiCSA, 2018. en ligne
Maniaci, Marilena and Paola F. Munafo, Eds. Ancient and medieval book materials and techniques (Eria, 18-25 septembre 1992), 2 vols. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1993 [Studi e testi 357-358].
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field, Eds. Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
Manuscripts and Arabic-script writing in Africa = المخطوطات والكتابة بالحرف العربي في إفريقيا, edited by Charles Stewart and Ahmed-Chouqui Binebine. Cambridge: The Islamic Manuscripts Association, 2023.
Pedersen, Johannes. The Arabic Book. translated by Geoffrey French. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Richard, Francis. Le livre persan. Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003.
Roper, Geoffrey. "The History of the Book in the Muslim World." In The Oxford Companion to the Book, Eds. Michael F.Suarez and H.R.Woudhuysen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 321-339.
Roberts, Colin H. and T. C. Skeat. The Birth of the Codex. London: Oxford University Press, c1983.
Roper, Geoffrey, Ed. The History of the Book in the Middle East. Farnam: Ashgate, 2013.
Roxburgh, David J. “Books.” In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Ed. Josef W. Meri (New York: Routledge, 2006): vol.1, 114-117.
Ṣafarī Āqʹqalʻah, ʻAlī. Nuskhahʹshinākht: pizhūhishnāmah-ʼi nuskhahʹshināsī-i nusakh-i khaṭṭī-i Fārsī [= Handbook of Persian codicology: an introduction to the study of Persian manuscripts] bā muqaddamah-ʼi Īraj Afshār. Tihrān: Markaz-i Pizhūhishī-i Mīrās̲-i Maktūb, 2011.
al-Sāmarrāʾī, Qāsim. ʻIlm al-iktināh al-ʻArabī al-Islāmī. al-Riyāḍ: Markaz al-Malik Fayṣal lil-Buḥūth wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah, 2001.
Sayyid, Ayman Fuʾād. al-Kitāb al-ʻArabī al-makhṭūṭ wa-ʻilm al-makhṭūṭāt. al-Qāhirah : al-Dār al-Miṣrīyah al-Lubnānīyah, 1997.
Waley, Muhammad Isa. "Problems and Possibilities in Dating Persian Manuscripts." In Les manuscrits du Moyen-Orient: essais de codicologie et paléographie. Actes du Colloque d'Istanbul (Istanbul, 26-29 mai 1986). François Déroche, ed. (Paris: Institut français d’études anatoliennes et Bibliothèque Nationale, 1989): 7-15.
see also
"VII. 8. Bookbinding" pp.242-246 and "VII. 5. Lacquer" pp.240-241 " in Gacek, The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001)
"VII. 6. Bookbinding" pp.148-149 in Gacek, The Arabic Manuscript Tradition - Supplement (2008)
Hepworth, Paul. Bibliography on Islamic Papers, Book Structures, Pigments and their Conservation. Available online at http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/extresources/bibliographies/ConservationBibliographies.html
Jacobs, David. Islamic Bibliography [Bookbinding, Conservation, Paper, Painting, Calligraphy and Qurans, History]. Available online at http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/extresources/bibliographies/ArtsOfTheBook.pdf
Historical Arabic treatises (listed chronologically)
ʻUmdat al-kuttāb wa-ʿuddat dhawī al-albāb attributed to al-Muʽizz Ibn Badīs (d.454/1062):
Ibn Bādīs, al-Muʻizz. "ʻUmdat al-kuttāb wa-ʻuddat dhawī al-albāb." Ed. ʻAbd al-Sattār al-Ḥalwajī and ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Zakī. Majallat Maʻhad al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah 17 (1971): 44-172.
-----. ʻUmdat al-kuttāb wa-ʻuddat dhawī al-albāb. Ed. Iyād Khālid al-Ṭabbāʻ. Dimashq: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah fī al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah, 2007.
Bosch, Gulnar. "The staff of the scribes and the implements of the discerning: an excerpt." Ars Orientalis, 4 (1961): 1-13.
Levey, Martin. Mediaeval Arabic Bookmaking and Its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 52, 4. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1962.
Kitāb al-Taysīr fī ṣināʻat al-tasfīr attributed to Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ishbīlī (d.628 or 9 / 1230-1 or 1231-2):
al-Ishbīlī, Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm. Kitāb al-Taysīr fī ṣināʻat al-tasfīr. Ed. Kanūn, ʿAbd Allāh. Revista del Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islámicos en Madrid ( = Ṣaḥīfat Majallat al-Maʻhad al-Miṣrī lil-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah fī Madrīd) 7-8 (1959-60): 1-42, 197-199.
-----. Kitāb al-Taysīr fī ṣināʻat al-tasfīr. Ed. al-Saʻīd Bin-Mūsá. al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ: Maṭbaʻat al-Najāḥ al-Jadīdah, 1999.
Gacek, Adam. "Arabic Bookmaking and Terminology as Portrayed by Bakr al-Ishbīlī in his Kitāb al-taysīr fī ṣināʻat al-tasfīr." Manuscripts of the Middle East 5 (1990-1991): 106-113.
al-Mukhtaraʽ fī funūn min al-ṣunaʽ attributed to al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf ibn ʻUmar al-Ghassānī (d.694/1294):
Gacek, Adam. "Instructions on the art of bookbinding attributed to the Rasulid ruler of Yemen al-Malik al-Muẓaffar." Scribes et manuscrits du Moyen-Orient. Ed. François Déroche and Francis Richard. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1997): 57-63.
al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf ibn ʻUmar. al-Mukhtaraʻ fī funūn min al-ṣunaʻ, ed. Muḥammad ʻĪsā Ṣāliḥiyya. al-Kuwayt: Muʼassasat al-Shirāʻ al-ʻArabī, 1989.
Tadbīr al-safīr fī ṣināʿat al-tasfīr attributed to Ibn Abī Ḥamīdah (or Ḥumaydah, fl.9th/15th cent.):
Gacek, Adam. "Ibn Abī Ḥamīdah's didactic poem for bookbinders." Manuscripts of the Middle East, 6 (1991): 41-58.
Ṣināʻat tasfīr al-kutub wa-ḥall al-dhahab attributed to Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sufyānī (fl.1029/1619):
al-Sufyānī, Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad. Ṣināʻat tasfīr al-kutub wa-ḥall al-dhahab. Ed. Prosper Ricard. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1925.
Levey, Martin. "Translation of Abū'l-ʻAbbās Aḥmed ibn Muḥammed al Sufyānī Ṣināʻat tasfīr al-kutub wa-ḥall al-dhahab (Art of Bookbinding and of Gilding) from the Arabic text published by P. Ricard, 1925." In Mediaeval Arabic Bookmaking and Its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 52, 4 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1962): 51-55.
Kayfīyat tasfīr al-kutub attributed to ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Abī Bakr al-Rasmūkī (d.1065/1654):
al-Rasmūkī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Abī Bakr ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʻqūb. Kayfīyat tasfīr al-kutub. Ed. al-Saʻīd Binmūsá. [Rabat]: al-Saʻīd Binmūsá, 2008.
Secondary Studies
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-----., ed. Ṣaḥḥāfī-i Sunnatī: Majmūʻahʼi Pānzdah Guftār va Kitābshināsī dar Bārah-ʼi Varrāqī, Ṣaḥḥāfī, Vaṣṣālī, Mujallidgarī az Yādgārhā-yi Hunar-i Īrānī va Islāmī. Tihrān : Kitābkhānah-ʼi Markazī va Markaz-i Asnād-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1357 [1978].
Aga-Oglu, Mehmet. Persian Bookbindings of the Fifteenth Century. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1935.
Akimushkin, O. F. "Central Asian manuscripts' bindings (1730s-1930s)." Manuscripta Orientalia 7 / 3 (2001): 4-8.
Aslanapa, Oktay. "The Art of Bookbinding." In The Arts of the Book in Central Asia 14th-16th Centuries, Ed. Basil Gray (Boulder, CO: Shambhala / UNESCO, 1979): 59-91.
Arıtan, Ahmet Sâim. "Türk Cild San'atı. The Turkish Art of Book Binding." In Türk Kitap Medeniyeti. Turkish Book Civilization, ed. Alper Çeker (Istanbul: İstanbul Büyük Belediyesi Kültür A.Ş., 2008): 60-97.
Bādaḥdaḥ, Mājid ibn ʻAbbūd. Ṣināʻat al-kitāb wa-al-kitābah fī al-Ḥijāz. [al-Riyāḍ]: Muʼassasat al-Furqān lil-Turāth al-Islāmī, Farʻ Mawsūʻat Makkah al-Mukarramah wa-al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, 2006. (2 v.)
Barakat, Heba Nayel et al. Islamic Bookbinding. Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2017. (Catalogue of an exhibition launched at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia on 8th May 2017)
Bardenstein, Ruth. "Samaritan Bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection." In Suave Mechanicals : Essays on the History of Bookbinding, Volume 3, edited by Julia Miller (Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2016): 62-159
--------. "Samaritan Manuscript Bindings from Four Collections in the United States." In Suave Mechanicals : Essays on the History of Bookbinding, Volume 5, edited by Julia Miller (Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2019): 30-65
Barkeshli, Mandana, Mostafa Rostami, and Sadra Zekrgoo. "Characteristics of Traditional Persian Lacquered Bindings and Specific Deterioration Issues" Restaurator 44, 4 (2023): 295-343
Baydar, Nil. "Structural Features and Conservation Problems of Turkish Manuscripts and Suggestions for Solutions." In Works of Art on Paper: Books, Documents and Photographs: Techniques and Conservation. Contributions to the Baltimore Congress 2-6 September 2002, ed. Vincent Daniels, Alan Donnithorne and Perry Smith (London: International Institute for Conservation, 2002): 5-10.
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Benson, Jake. “Satisfying an Appetite for Books: Innovation, Production, and Modernization in Later Islamic Bookbinding.” In Persian Language, Literature, and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, Ed. Kamran Talattof (London: Routledge, 2015): 365-394.
Beny, Ana, Teresa Espejo Arias, and Juan Pablo Arias Torres. "Andalusi Binding: A Model of Islamic Binding from the Iberian Peninsula, 14th–16th Century." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 6, 2-3 (2015): 157-173.
----- and Kristine Rose Beers. "An Inspiration for Conservation: An Historic Andalusi Binding Structure." In Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding, Volume 3, ed. Julia Miller (Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2016): 160-195.
Binmūsá, al-Saʻīd. Muḥāḍarāt fī ṣināʻat tasfīr al-kitāb al-Islāmī al-makhṭūṭ wa-ṣiyānatih. [al-Rabāṭ : s.n., 2008].
Bondarev, Dmitry. "Loose-leaf Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa: Retention, Adaptation or Invention?" In Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding, edited by Alessandro Bausi and Michael Friedrich (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023): 285-299 available online open access
"Bookbinding," In François Déroche, et al. Islamic Codicology: an Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script (London : Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2006): 253-310.
Bosch, Gulnar K. "Islamic Bookbindings: Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries." PhD diss., The University of Chicago, 1952.
-----. “Medieval Islamic Bookbinding: Doublures as a Dating Factor.” In Proceedings of the twenty-sixth International Congress of Orientalists, New Delhi , January 4-10, 1964. Vol. IV (Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1964): 217-221.
-----. "'The Staff of the Scribes and Implements of the Discerning:' An Excerpt." Ars Orientalis IV (1991): 1-13.
Bosch, Gulnar, John Carswell, and Guy Petherbridge. Islamic Bindings and Bookmaking: a Catalogue of an Exhibition, The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago, May 18-August 18, 1981. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. (available online https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/misc/islamic-bindings-bookmaking)
Boydak, Fatma Şeyma. “Bookbindings Bearing the Signature of Mehmed al-Sharīf and Their Decorative Characteristics.” Art Sanat 19 (2023): 79-101 https://doi.org/10.26650/artsanat.2023.19.1081524
Castilla, Nuria de and Déroche, François. "About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings" In Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts edited by Jörg B. Quenzer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021): 405-422 available online open access https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753301-021
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Gacek, Adam. "Arabic Bookmaking and Terminology as Portrayed by Bakr al-Ishbīlī in his Kitāb al-taysīr fī ṣināʻat al-tasfīr." Manuscripts of the Middle East 5 (1990-1991): 106-113.
-----. "Ibn Abī Ḥamīdah's Didactic Poem for Bookbinders." Manuscripts of the Middle East 6 (1991): 41-58.
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-----. "Scribes, Amanuenses, and Scholars. A Bibliographic Survey of Published Arabic Literature from the Manuscript Age on Various Aspects of Penmanship, Bookmaking, and the Transmission of Knowledge" Manuscripta Orientalia 10, ii (2004): 3-29.
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Gast, Monika. “A History of Endbands: Based on a Study by Karl Jäckel” The New Bookbinder 3 (1983): 42-58.
Greenfield, Jane and Jenny Hille. Endbands from East to West: How to Work Them. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. (3rd ed of Headbands: how to work them)
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Hand Papermaking, Volume 27, Number2, Winter 2012
Paper in the Islamic Lands by Jonathan Bloom (pp.3-11); An Introduction to the Craft of the Islamic Papermaker by Helen Loveday (pp.12-16); Casting Light on the Surface, Scientific Exactitude Meets Poetic Inspiration: A Close Look at Six Objects from the Islamic Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Yana Van Dyke (pp.17-23); Islamic-Style Papermaking in the Classroom by Timothy Barrett, Katharina Siedler, and Mary Louise Sullivan (pp.24-29); Saffron-Dyed Islamic-Style Paper sample by Katharina Siedler (p.30); Recreating an Islamic Codex by Islam Aly (pp.31-33); Istanbul Finds Its Center by Margaret Mahan (pp.34-35); Indian Papermaking: Mapping the DNA by Alexandra Soteriou (pp.36-38); The Continuing Kagzi Tradition of India by Radha Pandey (pp.39-41); Indigo-Dyed and Madder-Dyed Sunn Hemp Paper samples by Zakir Hussain Kagzi (p.42); Reconciling Tradition and Contemporary Practice in Present-Day Miniature Painting in Pakistan by Murad Khan Mumtaz (pp.43-47).
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Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī and the Place of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in Jazūlite Sufism / Vincent J. Cornell — The Birth of a Successful Prayer Book The Manuscript Tradition of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in North Africa / Hiba Abid — Paths of Prayers in Ottoman North Africa The Met’s Dalāʾil al-khayrāt 2017.301 in Context / Deniz Beyazit — A Technical Study of a 17th-Century Manuscript of Muḥammad Bin Sulaymān al-Jazūlī’s Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt / Yana van Dyke — The Regional Recitations of al-Jazūlī’s Dalāʾil al-Ḫayrāt as Reflected in Its Manuscript Tradition / Marijn van Putten — Medina and Mecca Revisited The Manuscripts of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt by al-Ǧazūlī and Their Ornamental Addition / Jan Just Witkam — In Writing and in Sound The Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in the Late Ottoman Empire / Sabiha Göloğlu — The Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan Some Research Leads / Alexandre Papas — The Royal Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt Manuscript from Terengganu, Malaysia / Heba Nayel Barakat and Nurul Iman Rusli — Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscripts of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt from Southeast Asia / Farouk Yahya
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Foreword / Massumeh Farhad -- Introduction : Current Perspectives on Qurʼanic Manuscripts / Simon Rettig, Sana Mirza -- Asṭār al-awwalīn : The Qurʼanic Handwritten Tradition and Its Beginnings / François Déroche -- Ghaznavid Imperial Qurʼan Manuscripts : The Shaping of a Local Style / Alya Karame -- Illuminated Qurʼan Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries) / Cailah Jackson -- A Luxury Market? : Yaqut al-Mustaʻsimi's Qurʼans / Nourane Ben Azzouna -- Sultan Öljeitü's Baghdad Qurʼan : A Life History / Sheila S. Blair -- Mamluk Qurʼans : Splendor and Opulence of the Islamic Book / Alison Aplin Ohta -- A Sixteenth- Century Shiraz Masterpiece : Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qurʼan / Elaine Wright -- The Qurʼanic Soundscape of Mimar Sinan's Mosques : A Survey of Recitation Programs and the Unusual Case of the Hadım İbrahim Paşa Mosque at Silivrikapı / Nina Macaraig -- The Rise of the Enʻam : Manuscripts of Selections of Suras in the Early Sixteenth- Century Ottoman Empire / Simon Rettig.
Actes de la Conférence internationale sur les manuscrits du Coran (Bologne, 26-28 septembre 2002). Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph Volume LIX (2006): 161-405.
Studying the Manuscripts of the Qur’ān, Past and Future 163 François DÉROCHE
Uses and Functions of the Qur’ānic Text 183 Sheila S. BLAIR
Un mode d’emploi du Coran. Note sur les gloses persanes d’un manuscrit coranique d’Asie centrale 209 Marie EFTHYMIOU
The Copying and Handling of Qur’āns: Some Observations on the Kitāb al-Maṣāḥif by Ibn Abī Dā’ūd al-Sijistānī 229 Adam GACEK
De quelques corans chinois et leur papier 253 Geneviève HUMBERT et Annie VERNAY-NOURI
Du fiqh à la codicologie. Quelques opinions de Mālik (m. 179/796) sur le Coran-codex 269 Abdelouahed JAHDANI
Forms of Qur’ānic Manuscripts Among the Yoruba Islamic Scholars of South-Western Nigeria 281 Ismaheel Akinade JIMOH
Disputes in Bukhara on the Persian Translation of the Qur’ān 301 Ashirbek MUMINOV
Ibn Muqla and the Qur’ānic Manuscripts in Oblong Format 309 Valery V. POLOSIN
La réforme de l’écriture arabe à l’époque du califat médinois 319 Christian Julien ROBIN
Repertory of Sūras and Prayers in a Collection of Ottoman Manuscripts 365 Florian SOBIEROJ
The Use of the Qur’ān for Divination in Iran 387 Sergei TOURKIN
The Collection of Qur’ān Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia 395 Olga V. VASILYEVA
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"Craftsmen and the Making of the Manuscript." In François Déroche, et al. Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script (London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2006): 185-204.
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