James A. Bellamy
James A. Bellamy is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at the University of Michigan. He has been an important scholar in the textual criticism of the Quran, even being described as the "doyen" of its emendation, and one of the few to practice emendation since Ignác Goldziher and Theodor Nöldeke.[1][2][3] In a series of articles from 1973 to 2002 in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Bellamy proposed a number of conjectural emendations to the standard text of the Quran.[3] Bellamy described textual criticism as like an "addiction" to him.[4] He gave a succinct description of his job as "the correction of errors in texts."[5]
Select publications
- "The Mysterious Letters of the Koran: Old Abbreviations of the Basmalah". Journal of the American Oriental Society 93 (3): 267–285. Jul–Sep 1973. doi:10.2307/599460. (subscription required (help)). Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - "Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran". Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (4): 562–573. Oct–Dec 1993. doi:10.2307/606724. (subscription required (help)). Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - "More Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran". Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (2): 196–204. Apr–Jun 1996. doi:10.2307/606724. (subscription required (help)). Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - "Textual Criticism of the Koran". Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 (1): 1–6. Jan–Mar 2001. doi:10.2307/605695. (subscription required (help)). Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - "A Further Note on ʿĪsā". Journal of the American Oriental Society 122 (3): 1–6. Jul–Sep 2002. doi:10.2307/3087526. (subscription required (help)). Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. (2006). "Textual Criticism of the Qurʼān". Encyclopedia of the Qur'ān 5. Brill. pp. 237–252. Invalid
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Notes
- ↑ Toorawa 2009, p. 223.
- ↑ Ali 2004, p. 316.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stewart 2008, p. 233.
- ↑ Bellamy 2001, p. 1.
- ↑ Bellamy 2006, p. 237.
References
- Ali, Muhammad Mohar (2004). The Qurʼân and the Orientalists. Jamʻiyat ʼIhyaaʼ Minhaaj al-Sunnah. ISBN 9780954036973. Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - Stewart, Devin J. (2008). "Notes on medieval and modern emendations of the Qurʼān". In Reynolds, Gabriel Said. The Qurʼān in Its Historical Context. Routledge. pp. 225–248. ISBN 9780203939604. Invalid
|name-list-format=scap(help) - Toorawa, Shawkat M. (Summer 2009). "Hapless hapaxes and luckless rhymes: the Qurʼan as literature". Religion & Literature 41 (2): 221–227. JSTOR 25676907. (subscription required (help)). Invalid
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