Preface -- Glossary -- Editor's introduction -- 1. The transmission of the sciences in early Islam: oral or written? -- 2. The transmission of the sciences in early Islam revisited -- 3. Writing and publishing: on the use and function of writing in early Islam -- 4. Oral poetry, theory, and Arabic literature -- 5. Oral Torah and oHadit: transmission, prohibition of writing, redaction -- 6. Who is the author of the Kitab al-ayn? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.