The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

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

AUTORE

Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E. Montgomery

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415394956
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.15 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 11 b/w images and 11 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 260
• Traduttore: Uwe Vagelpohl