TY  - BOOK
AU  - ʻAẓmah,ʻAzīz
TI  - The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity: a critique of approaches to Arabic sources 
T2  - Theories and paradigms of Islamic studies
SN  - 9783940924438
AV  - PJ7526 .A96 2014eb
U1  - 892/.709/001 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Gerlach Press
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - To 622
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 622-750
KW  - 750-1258
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Arabs
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Arabic literature -- 622-750 -- History and criticism
KW  - Arabic literature -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism
KW  - Arabic literature -- To 622 -- History and criticism
KW  - Islam and literature
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - 622-661
KW  - 661-750
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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