French scholar François Déroche will address the forum, which will be jointly organized by the Book House and Iran’s House of Writers.
He had in May last year discussed the issue in a short course at Britain’s Cambridge University under the title of "Introduction to the Paleography of Early Quranic Scripts”.
François Déroche is the holder of the Chair of History of the Quran: Text and Transmission at the Collège de France and one of the leading scholars of Islamic codicology and paleography.
His works include Catalogue des manuscrits arabes, The Abbasid Tradition, and Qurans of the Umayyads: A Preliminary Overview, have revolutionised the typology of early Quranic scripts.
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