Oral and the Written in Early Islam

Zusatztext 'Schoeler's effort is a masterpiece in the class of William Graham's' - Amidu Olalekan SANNI! Lagos State University Informationen zum Autor Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E. Montgomery Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Summary

Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated in English for the first time, Gregor Schoeler gives a 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.

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• Authors: James E Montgomery, James E. Montgomery, James E. (University of Cambridge Montgomery, James E. Vagelpohl Montgomery, MONTGOMERY JAMES E VAGELPOHL UW, Gregor Schoeler, Gregor (University of Basel Schoeler, Gregor/ Vagelpohl Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2010
• EAN: 9780415597074
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59707-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures; Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures