Scripts and scripture : writing and religion in Arabia circa 500–700 CE
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945-
, [HerausgeberIn]
Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca , [HerausgeberIn] |
|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Chicago :
The Oriental Institute,
2022.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xxii + 287 : 55 figures, 10 tables, 2 maps). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East
no. 3 |
| Online Zugang: |
open access |
Inhaltsangabe:
- List of Figures List of Abbreviations and Sigla List of Contributors Maps of Arabia and Adjacent Regions 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. ʿArabī and aʿjamī in the Qurʾān: 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 Qurʾān. Sidney Griffith. 8. Language of Ritual Purity in the Qurʾān 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 Qurʾānic Sūrah. Adam Flowers. 13. The Adversarial Clansman in Qurʾānic Narrative and Early Muslim Antipatrimonialism. Hamza M. Zafer. Bibliography Index
