| Titre : |
The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity : a critique of approaches to arabic sources |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Aziz al- Azmeh (1947-....), Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Berlin : Gerlach press |
| Année de publication : |
2014 |
| Collection : |
Theories and paradigms of Islamic studies |
| Importance : |
1 vol. (XI- 155 p.) |
| Format : |
25 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-3-940924-42-1 |
| Note générale : |
Bibliogr. p. 125-147. Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
936.01 Histoire ancienne : histoire du Monde musulman : origines et premiers siècles de l'Islam |
| Résumé : |
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 |
| Note de contenu : |
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. |
The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity : a critique of approaches to arabic sources [texte imprimé] / Aziz al- Azmeh (1947-....), Auteur . - Berlin : Gerlach press, 2014 . - 1 vol. (XI- 155 p.) ; 25 cm. - ( Theories and paradigms of Islamic studies) . ISBN : 978-3-940924-42-1 Bibliogr. p. 125-147. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
936.01 Histoire ancienne : histoire du Monde musulman : origines et premiers siècles de l'Islam |
| Résumé : |
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 |
| Note de contenu : |
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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936.0 Histoire ancienne : histoire du Monde musulman
