"How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qurʾān, 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,...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Donner, Fred McGraw 1945- (HerausgeberIn), Hasselbach, Rebecca (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chicago The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 2022
Schriftenreihe:	Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East number 3
Schlagworte:	Koran Schriftsystem Arabische Schrift Spätantike Arabien Aufsatzsammlung Konferenzschrift > 2017 > Chicago
Online-Zugang:	kostenfrei
Zusammenfassung:	"How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qurʾān, 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, Christianity, and apparently independent local forms. 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, various North Arabian dialects of Semitic, and Arabic-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 Qurʾān, 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 some key Qurʾānic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain terms used in the Qurʾān also form part of this rich volume"--
Beschreibung:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite 251-278 Proceedings of a conference at the University of Chicago on May 18-19, 2017 (Seite xviii)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 287 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9781614910749