An edition of The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity
(2014)
The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity
a critique of approaches to Arabic sources
by ʻAzīz ʻAẓmah
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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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The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity: a critique of approaches to Arabic sources
2014, Gerlach Press
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-147) and index.
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