Creating the Qur’an A Historical-Critical Study

Creating the Qur’an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur’an’s origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the Islamic tradition relates not a single attested account of the holy text’s for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shoemaker, Stephen J., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press [2022]
Edición:1 ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746883006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Traditional Narrative of the Qur’an’s Origins: A Scholarly Sunnism
  • 2. ʿAbd al-Malik, al-Ḥajjāj, and the Composition of the Qur’an
  • 3. Radiocarbon Dating and the Origins of the Qur’an
  • 4. The Hijaz in Late Antiquity: Social and Economic Conditions in the Cradle of the Qur’an
  • 5. Literacy, Orality, and the Qur’an’s Linguistic Environment
  • 6. Remembering Muhammad: Perspectives from Memory Science
  • 7. Re-Remembering Muhammad: Oral Tradition and Collective Memory
  • 8. The Qur’anic Codex as Process: Writing Sacred Tradition in Late Antiquity
  • 9. The Qur’an’s Historical Context According to the Qur’an
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index