The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Read

Abstract

Translator's Preface Author's Preface Introduction 1. The Oral and the Written during the Jahiliyya and Early Islam 2. The Qur'an and Qur'an 'Readers' 3. The Beginnings of Religious Scholarship in Islam: Sirah, Hadith, Tafsir 4. Literature and the Caliphal Court 5. The Turn toward Systematisation: The Tasnif Movement 6. The Birth of Linguistics and Philology 7. Books and their Readership in the Ninth Century 8. Listening to Books, or Reading Them? Concluding Remarks: From the Aural to the Read Glossary Notes Bibliography Index.

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