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Marijn van Putten, “Re-evaluating Kaplony’s ‘Documentary Hypothesis’ of the Qur’an”

This paper was presented at the conference 'The “Seven Long Ones” (al-Sabʿ al-Ṭiwāl): Approaches to Surahs 2–7 and 9', held at Pembroke College, Oxford (24-25 March 2025). The event was organized as part of the project 'Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm', which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 771047). Some years ago, Andreas Kaplony published his highly thought-provoking article that tried to create a source-critical division of sections of the Qur'an: the Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn, Ar-Rahmān and Hegemonic groups (Kaplony 2018). The Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn group doesn't only cover surahs 2–7 and 9, but they do make up an important portion of that group. In the paper, van Putten will re-evaluate this source division, which has overlooked an important point: compositional formulae and rhyme, which explain much more compellingly the use of Rabb al-ʿĀlamīn than does the hypothesis of it being of a different textual source.