Canon and canonisation, in classical Arabic literature - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Gelder, Geert Jan
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Leiden
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Brill
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The concept of a canon , derived from debates in Christianity about which parts of the Old and New Testaments should be accepted as authentic and authoritative, can be applied to any literary tradition, religious or secular. In Islam there is a broad consensus on the canonical text of the Qurʾān, Islamic sects have their canonical collections of ḥadīth , and legal schools have their sets of authoritative textbooks and compilations. The present article treats the Arabic literary canon, in the sense of a body of texts or a cultural repertory deemed