Marijn van Putten

b. 1988 · Netherlands · Historical linguist of Arabic and the Qurʾānic text

Marijn van Putten is a Dutch historical linguist who studied at Leiden University and received his PhD there in 2013 with a grammar of Awjila Berber. He is an assistant professor at Leiden and principal investigator of the ERC project Qurcan on the canonization of the Qur’anic reading traditions. His research combines Arabic historical linguistics, textual criticism and manuscript evidence to study the Qur’an’s early orthography and the development of its reading traditions.

This scholar is also listed in the Quran Hub’s manuscript scholars catalogue. The list of works here is compiled from publisher, library and university pages and is not exhaustive; check details against the publisher’s record before citing.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Biography sources: universiteitleiden.nl · en.wikipedia.org

Works

Books 1

BOOK 2022 · English · Brill, Leiden/Boston (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 106)

Quranic Arabic: From its Hijazi Origins to its Classical Reading Traditions

Uses manuscripts and medieval sources to reconstruct the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the Qur'anic text and its development into the canonical readings.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: library.oapen.org

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Putten, Marijn van. Quranic Arabic: From its Hijazi Origins to its Classical Reading Traditions. 2022. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53857/1/9789004506251.pdf. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/marijn-van-putten/#marijn-van-putten-quranic-arabic-from-its-hijazi-origins-to

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Articles & essays 5

ARTICLE 2018 · English · Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 108

Case in the Qurˀānic Consonantal Text with P.W. Stokes

Analyses how the consonantal text marks grammatical case and what that implies about the language of the Qur'anic text.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl

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Putten, Marijn van. Case in the Qurˀānic Consonantal Text. 2018. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/79171. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/marijn-van-putten/#marijn-van-putten-case-in-the-quranic-consonantal-text-with

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ARTICLE 2018 · English · Orientalia 87(1)

Hamzah in the Quranic Consonantal Text

Examines how the consonantal text treats the glottal stop hamzah.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: Orientalia 87(1)

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Putten, Marijn van. Hamzah in the Quranic Consonantal Text. 2018. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/marijn-van-putten/#marijn-van-putten-hamzah-in-the-quranic-consonantal-text

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ARTICLE 2019 · English · Bulletin of SOAS 82(2)

"The Grace of God" as Evidence for a Written Uthmanic Archetype: the Importance of Shared Orthographic Idiosyncrasies

Argues that shared spelling oddities across early manuscripts point to a single written ʿUthmānic archetype.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: cambridge.org

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Putten, Marijn van. "The Grace of God" as Evidence for a Written Uthmanic Archetype: the Importance of Shared Orthographic Idiosyncrasies. 2019. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/23C45AC7BC649A5228E0DA6F6BA15C06. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/marijn-van-putten/#marijn-van-putten-the-grace-of-god-as-evidence-for

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ARTICLE 2019 · English · Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 10(3)

Arabe 334a. A vocalized Kufic Quran in a non-canonical Hijazi reading

Studies a vocalised Kufic Qur'an manuscript that follows a non-canonical Hijazi reading.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 10(3)

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Putten, Marijn van. Arabe 334a. A vocalized Kufic Quran in a non-canonical Hijazi reading. 2019. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/marijn-van-putten/#marijn-van-putten-arabe-334a-a-vocalized-kufic-quran-in

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ARTICLE 2022 · English · Dead Sea Discoveries 29(3)

When the readers break the rules: disagreement with the consonantal text in the canonical Quranic reading traditions

Looks at cases where canonical readers depart from the written consonantal text.

Archived 15 October 2026 · Source: brill.com

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Putten, Marijn van. When the readers break the rules: disagreement with the consonantal text in the canonical Quranic reading traditions. 2022. Archived 15 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/authors/marijn-van-putten/#marijn-van-putten-when-the-readers-break-the-rules-disagreement

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