Variations in Eight Manuscript Versions of al-Kisâ'ï's Depiction of Seven Heavens
Variations in Eight Manuscript Versions of al-Kisâ'ï's Depiction of Seven Heavens

Summary/Abstract: This contribution presents the concept of 'seven heavens' as preserved by eight manuscripts of Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah al-Kisâ'ï's collections of Islamic religious tales Kitab A’ğāi’b al-MalakUt and Qisas al-Anbiyā It focuses on and compares the contents and composition of the chapter devoted to the topic and analyses the variations in the mss., which shed light on the way the tales are transmitted. Some of them represent variability in the original information, whereas others (including significant semantic shifts) may easily have emerged as a result of even minor scribal lapses.

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