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James A. Bellamy

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21 July 2015

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Contemporary Arabic Readers IV Short Stories

James A. Bellamy is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at the University of Michigan.

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Research

Bellamy 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. 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. Bellamy described textual criticism as like an "addiction" to him. He gave a succinct description of his job as "the correction of errors in texts."

Bellamy's approach makes him a representative of the Revisionist School of Islamic Studies.

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)). 
  • "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)). 
  • "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)). 
  • "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)). 
  • "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)). 
  • McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. (2006). "Textual Criticism of the Qurʼān". Encyclopedia of the Qur'ān. 5. Brill. pp. 237–252. 

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