Corpus Coranicum Research Director to Discuss Project’s Findings in Tehran
It will be held on Wednesday, February 10, in the Iranian capital.
Marx will discuss the project’s latest findings, analyses of old Quran manuscripts and use of empirical methods to study the history of the Quran.
Corpus Coranicum is a research project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities towards a critical study of the Quran.
Begun in 2007, the database project is currently funded till 2025, but could well take longer to complete.
It plans to document the Quran in its handwritten form and oral tradition, and include an extensive commentary interpreting the text in the context of its historical development.
According to Wikipedia, much of the Corpus Coranicum source material consists of photographs of ancient Quran manuscripts collected before World War II by Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Otto Pretzl.
