The Life, Works, and Contributions of Sergio Noja Noseda to Qur’ān Manuscript Studies

Abstract

The present article introduces the life, works, and contributions of Sergio Noja Noseda, an Italian scholar who specialized in Islamic law, Arabic language and literature, Qur’ānic studies and Islamic civilization. Prof Noja was one of the most prominent contributors to Qur’ānic manuscript studies in the late 20th century, as evident from his “Sources de la transmission manuscrite du texte coranique series”. The “Amari Project” enabled researchers to access the most valuable and oldest witnesses of the Qur’ānic text from the world libraries, including the documents that were either difficult to find or were out of print. Despite Noseda's untimely death his works have influenced new teams of researchers to continue establishing academic ties between the Muslim scholars and their Western counterparts.