Oral and the Written in Early Islam

Zusatztext "The author has succeeded in exploring some common bonds among a variety of subjects in a nuanced manner with a remarkable analytical acuity. The glossary is quite illuminating and the Bibliography rich... For all those interested in the interface and interaction between the oral and the written media in the transmission and documentation of the Islamic intellectual heritage in its inchoate stage! and indeed for all Islamicists and Arabists! Schoeler's effort is a masterpiece in the class of the Harvard historian of religion William Graham." - Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Middle Eastern Literatures: incorporating Edebiyat! 13:1! 117-119 (2010). 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 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. 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

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• Authors: James E. Montgomery, James E. (University of Cambridge Montgomery, Montgomery James E., Gregor Schoeler, Gregor (University of Basel Schoeler, Gregor Vagelpohl Schoeler, Schoeler Gregor, Uwe Vagelpohl, Vagelpohl Uwe
• Assisted by: James E. Montgomery (Editor), Uwe Vagelpohl (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2006
• EAN: 9780415394956
• ISBN: 978-0-415-39495-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Ea; 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; Islam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Religion: general, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General