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Scripts and scripture :

9781614910749

1614910731

161491074X

9781614910732

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Scripts and scripture :

[Book]

writing and religion in Arabia, circa 500-700 CE /

edited by Fred M. Donner and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee.

Chicago :

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,

2022.

©2022

1 online resource (xxii, 287 pages) :

illustrations (some color), maps.

Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East ;

number 3

"This volume represents the proceedings of a conference that convened at the University of Chicago on May18-19, 2017."--page xviii.

Introduction -- 1. Scripts and scripture in late antique Arabia : An overview / Fred M. Donner -- 2. The oral and the written in the religions of ancient North Arabia / Michael C.A. Macdonald -- 3. The religious landscape of Northwest Arabia as reflected in the Nabataean, Nabataeo-Arabic, and pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions / Laïla Nehmé -- 4. One wāw to rule them all : The origins and fate of wawation in Arabic and its orthography / Ahmad al-Jallad -- 5. ʻArabī and aʻjamī in the Qurʼān : The language of revelation in Muḥammad's Ḥijāz / Robert Hoyland -- 6. Scripture, language, and the Jews of Arabia / Gordon D. Newby -- 7. Script, text, and the Bible in Arabic : The evidence of the Qurʼān / Sidney Griffith -- 8. Language of ritual purity in the Qurʼān and Old South Arabian / Suleyman Dost -- 9. The invention of a sacred book / François Déroche -- 10. Script or scripture? The earliest Arabic tombstones in the light of Jewish and Christian epitaphs / Kyle Longworth -- 11. Religious warfare and martyrdom in Arabic graffiti (70s-110s AH/690s-730s CE) / Ilkka Lindstedt -- 12. Writing and the terminological evolution of the Qurʼānic Sūrah / Adam Flowers -- 13. The adversarial clansman in Qurʼānic narrative and early Muslim antipatrimonialism / Hamza M. Zafer.

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"How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qurʼān, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a scholarly conference, address different aspects of this question. They include discussions of the religious concepts found in Arabia in the centuries preceding the rise of Islam, which reflect the presence of polytheism and of several varieties of monotheism including Judaism and Christianity. Also discussed at length are the complexities surrounding the way languages of the Arabian Peninsula were written in the centuries before and after the rise of Islam--including Nabataean and various North Arabian dialects of Semitic--and the gradual emergence of the now-familiar Arabic script from the Nabataean script originally intended to render a dialect of Aramaic. The religious implications of inscriptions from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic centuries receive careful scrutiny. The early coalescence of the Qurʼān, the kind of information it contains on Christianity and other religions that formed part of the environment in which it first appeared, the development of several key Qurʼānic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain terms used in the Qurʼān also form part of this rich volume"--

Scripts and scripture.

9781614910732

Islamic literature, Arabic-- History and criticism, Congresses.

Islamic literature, Arabic.

Donner, Fred McGraw,1945-

Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca

20221202072722.0

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[Book]

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