The oral and the written in early Islam
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Bibliographic Information
The oral and the written in early Islam
(Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures)
Routledge, 2009, c2006
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- Other Title
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Ecrire et transmettre dans les débuts de l'islam
Note
"Transferred to digital printing 2009"--T. p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction 1. The Transmission of the Science in Early Islam: Oral or Written? 2. The Transmission of the Sciences in Early Islam Revisited 3. Writing and Publishing: On the Use and Function of Writing in Early Islam 4. Oral Poetry Theory and Arabic Literature 5. Oral Torah and Hadit: Transmission, Prohibition of Writing, Redaction 6. Who is the Author of the Kitab Al-'Ayn
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