Divan of variants - al-quran.fr

What the figures say

99.97%of words share the same skeleton in every reading

99.993%of skeleton letters are identical

2words added or removed, out of 77,430

Out of 10,000 words of Hafs, in another reading, on average 9,903 identical 95 read differently: dots, hamza, vowels 2.2 different skeleton

By reading: share of words identical to Hafs

Warsh 99.01%

Qalun 98.96%

Shu'ba 99.35%

Al-Bazzi 98.94%

Qunbul 98.94%

Ad-Duri 98.99%

As-Susi 98.97%

Colour code : identical read differently: dots, hamza, vowels different skeleton

Eight transmissions, from regions far apart from one another, copied by hand for centuries whose beginning no one can fix with certainty, on parchment and then on paper, through wars, chaos and violence, from the Mashreq to the Maghreb. Anyone who knows how information travels knows there are always losses: a missing packet, a flipped bit. Here, out of 77,430 words, the skeleton differs for only a few dozen, almost always by one letter, and no difference changes the structure of the text: the context is enough to detect them, like an integrity check. These readings are read today from Morocco to Indonesia.