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The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity : a critique of approaches to Arabic sources / Aziz Al-Azmeh.

By: Series: Theories and paradigms of Islamic studiesPublisher: Berlin, Germany : Gerlach Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783940924438
  • 3940924431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arabs and Islam in late antiquity.DDC classification:
  • 892/.709/001 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ7526 .A96 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Divergence of source interpretation: the Methodenstreit -- Literary transmission: authors, genres, traditions -- Credibility and factual confirmation -- Genres, authors and antiquarians revisited: the snares of narrative -- Fact, fiction and narrative patterns: ways of reading -- Transmission of testimony: the voice, the pen, and the author -- The pertinence of poetical evidence -- Preliminaries to the use of the Qurʼān as an historical source.
Summary: This work provides a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Aziz Al-Azmeh considers the value and relevance of a range of literary sources, including orality and literacy, ancient Arabic poetry, the corpus of Arab heroic lore (ayyam), the early narrative, and the Qur'an, for the reconstruction of the social, political, cultural and religious history of the Arabs.
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This work provides a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Aziz Al-Azmeh considers the value and relevance of a range of literary sources, including orality and literacy, ancient Arabic poetry, the corpus of Arab heroic lore (ayyam), the early narrative, and the Qur'an, for the reconstruction of the social, political, cultural and religious history of the Arabs.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-147) and index.

Divergence of source interpretation: the Methodenstreit -- Literary transmission: authors, genres, traditions -- Credibility and factual confirmation -- Genres, authors and antiquarians revisited: the snares of narrative -- Fact, fiction and narrative patterns: ways of reading -- Transmission of testimony: the voice, the pen, and the author -- The pertinence of poetical evidence -- Preliminaries to the use of the Qurʼān as an historical source.

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