The a critique of approaches to Arabic sources ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. gw 2014 2014 monographic eng 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages). 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. 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. Aziz Al-Azmeh. Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-147) and index. Arabic literature To 622 History and criticism Arabic literature 622-750 History and criticism Arabic literature 750-1258 History and criticism Literature and history Arab countries Literature and history Islamic Empire Arabs History To 622 Historiography Islamic Empire History 622-661 Historiography Islamic Empire History 661-750 Historiography LITERARY CRITICISM / African Arabic literature -- 622-750 -- History and criticism Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism Arabic literature -- To 622 -- History and criticism Islam and literature RELIGION / Islam / General PJ7526 .A96 2014eb 892/.709/001 ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz. Berlin, Germany : Gerlach Press, 2014 (DLC) 2015379204 (OCoLC)869526762 9783940924438 3940924431 22573/ctt1df5c39 JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=975983 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=975983 N$T 150408 20200709060340.0 ocn906803828 eng