The background of genesis and development of the extual criticism in Islamic civilization

Document Type : Research َ Article

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PhD Candidate, Persian Literature and Language, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

Purpose: To assess classification and analysis of the causes of textual criticism and explain how its evolution in the first centuries of Islamic civilization.
Methodology / Approach: The research was based on the seven ways to textual criticism that used by Muslim scholars. The first study examined the historical process and then these ways been analyzed.
Results: The results showed that the genesis of tradition textual criticism in Islamic civilization, back to the second century AD. Secondly the essential foundation of textual criticism - as some claim - has not been In Europe, But this knowledge in Islamic civilization has been used in a specific manner, Several centuries before its use in Europe. Development of textual criticism was conducted in three stages: “Repeated Reading”, “Codicology” and “Genealogy”.
Conclusion: textual criticism is a native Islamic knowledge that been emerged during a continuous process.

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