Variations on a Theme by Muḥammad: Did Literacy Supersede the Orality of the Qurʾān?
Abstract This essay explores the tense relationship between the oral and written transmissions in the history of the Qurʾān. While Muslim scholars consider “orality” to be the cornerstone in the process of transmitting their holy text, I argue that writing, in its various forms, was a crucial elemen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2022, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 388-409 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Didactics
/ Poetics
/ Codex
/ Consonant
/ Text organisation
/ Canon
/ Literalness
/ Oral tradition
/ Literature
/ Text
/ Corruption
/ Text variant
/ Variante
/ Koran
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Qirāʾāt
B non-canonical readings B textual corruption B consonantal outline (rasm) B Canonization B written transmission B Qurʾān B al-shāṭibiyya B Didactic Poetry B Oral transmission B variant readings B Codices |
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