Chapter 6 The Quranic Collections Acquired by Wetzstein
In: Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies
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François Déroche
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Abstract
As an Arabist, Johann Gottfried Wetzstein was well prepared to collect manuscripts of interest for European researchers of his time. This is especially true of the collection of early Quranic fragments he acquired at a moment when the history of the Quran was the topic of academic competition, prompting the publication of Theodor Nöldeke’s Geschichte des Qorâns.