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Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines [Browse]
• Islam—Sacred books [Browse]

Editor

• Hilali, Asma [Browse]
• Burge, S. R. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Sacred works [Browse]

Series

Pre- and early Islam series [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of the modalities, actors, technicalities and consequences of the evolving of religious texts within the perspective of the fragment versus the whole.0The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources, and includes contributions on Qur?anic manuscripts, early graffiti, the formation of the Qur?anic canon, the Hadith literature, snd Old Babylonian extispicy texts.0Three main topics are addressed: the text and its materiality; the structure of the text and the dynamic relationship between the fragment and the whole; and methods of shaping and reshaping traditions.0The hermeneutical experience of the fragment versus the whole is explored in depth throughout, and the consequences addressed for the history of the religious text, its composition, its reception and its interpretation." -- Book Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Front Matter pages i-iv
• Table of Contents pages v-vi
• Acknowledgements pages vii-viii
• Preface pages ix-x
• Introduction / Asma Hilali pages 1-8
• Chapter 1. Exploring the Fragment / Asma Hilali and S. R. Burge pages 9-26
• Chapter 2. Conceptualising Books in Mesopotamia: The Composition of Extispicy Treatises in the Old-Babylonian Period / Jean-Jacques Glassner pages 27-34
• Chapter 3. Modelling the Paleo-Qur'ān: Declamations, Reiterations, Fragments and Collations / Aziz Al-Azmeh pages 35-76
• Chapter 4. The Mobility of the Fragment: The 'Qur'ānic Variants' as an Example / Asma Hilali pages 77-86
• Chapter 5. Compilation Criticism: Reading and Interpreting $adith Collections Through the Prism of Fragmentation and Compilation / S. R. Burge pages 87-110
• Chapter 6. The Synchronic and the Diachronic Qur'ān: Sūrat Yā Sīn, Lot's People, and the Rabbis / Holger Zellentin pages 111-174
• Chapter 7. Isolated Qur'ānic Fragments: The Case of the Three Papyri from the Mingana Collection / Alba Fedeli pages 175-198
• Chapter 8. Fragmentation and Variation in the First Islamic Graffiti (1-2 C.AH) / Frédéric Imbert pages 199-220
• Bibliography pages 221-244
• About the Contributors pages 245-246.

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ISBN

• 9783959940702 (hardcover)
• 395994070X (hardcover)

OCLC

1114600653

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