| Title:
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THE GENESIS OF LITERATURE IN ISLAM
FROM THE AURAL TO THE READ |
| By: |
Gregor Schoeler, Shawkat M. Toorawa (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£70.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748624678 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748624676 |
| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2009 |
| Series: |
The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
The central question of this book is concerned with what 'publishing' and 'Arabic Literature' entailed in the period of Classical Islam -- how were ideas transmitted, both orally and in written form? |
| Synopsis: |
In the beginning was the Qur'an, the first book of Islam and also the first book of Arabic literature. Occasioned by the need to understand and interpret the word of God, and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslims made an inventory and study of their tradition. This involved the collection, transmission and instruction of the sacred text, of the words and deeds of Muhammad, and also of poetry, from both before and after the rise of Islam - indeed of all matters regarded as pertinent to the proper and scholarly study of the tradition. This activity, which began in the last third of the seventh century, relied predominantly on aural study with a master, that is, on oral communication between teacher and student, although writing was already an integral part of this process. In the present work Gregor Schoeler explains how Muslim scholarship evolved from aural to read. The result was the genesis of one of the richest literatures of late antiquity and the early middle ages, as is clear from the widespread dissemination of scholarship through writing and the attendant proliferation of books. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |