Table of Contents

Part I. The Qur'ān and the Islamic Legal Sciences: 1. Introduction; 2. The Islamic legal sciences; 3. The sub-science of naskh; 4. The background to the emergence of the third mode of naskh; 5. The mushaf: an incomplete record of the Qur'ān; Part II. The History of the Collection of the Qur'ān Texts: 6. The first collection; 7. The 'Uthmān collection; 8. The Qur'ān collection:a review; 9. The isnād of the Qur'ān; 10. General conclusions; Works cited; Notes; Indices.

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Dr Burton argues that the function of the ascription of the assembly of the Qur'ān to Mohammed's Companions was the deliberate exclusion of the Prophet.