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TH E ORAL AND T HE W RIT T EN
I N E ARLY ISL AM
Over the last few decades a number of books have appeared on aspects of the
written and the oral within pre-modern Islamic societies and in the context of the
formation of their intellectual ideas. Traditionally, these books have focused
mainly on the religious dimension, on literature and the development of genres,
on the transmission of scholarly ideas and practices, or the intellectual foundations
of the Islamic sciences. To date, however, there are no books available in
English which provide an authoritative, reasoned and comprehensive overview
of how the written and the oral interacted in early Islamic societies across Islamic
intellectual life.
The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
fills this void and investigates the
divergent and received cultural expressions of these processes among Muslims
and within Muslim intellectual life of the early centuries of the Islamic Era (which
corresponds to the seventh to tenth centuries of the Common Era). This volume
is a translation of six German articles by Professor Gregor Schoeler. With one
exception, none have been translated into English before. Each article has been
brought up to date, made as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, and the
work includes a glossary of key terms. The work also benefits from a substantial
introduction by James Montgomery.
Prof. Gregor Schoeler
has been the chair of Islamic Studies at the University
of Basel since 1982. His recent publications include Al-Ma‘arr¯:
Paradies und
ı
Hölle,
Munich, 2002 (German translation of the first part of al-Ma‘arr¯’s
Ris¯ lat
ı
a
˙
an)
and
Écrire et transmettre dans les débuts de l’islam,
Paris, 2002
al-Gufr¯
(Presses Universitaires de France: Islamiques), and Volume 4 of the D¯w¯ n of
ı a
Ab¯ Nuw¯ s, Beirut, 2003.
u
a
Dr James E. Montgomery
is University Reader in Classical Arabic at the
University of Cambridge where he is also a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He is the winner
of the Abdullah Mubarak Literary Award for his book
The Vagaries of the Qas
¯
da:
.ı
the Tradition and Practice of Early Arabic Poetry
(Cambridge, 1997).
R OUT L E DGE S T U DIE S IN MIDDL E EAST ER N
L IT ER AT UR ES
Editors: James E. Montgomery
University of Cambridge
Roger Allen
University of Pennsylvania
Philip F. Kennedy
New York University
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
is a monograph series devoted to aspects of
the literatures of the Near and Middle East and North Africa both modern and pre-modern. It
is hoped that the provision of such a forum will lead to a greater emphasis on the comparative
study of the literatures of this area, although studies devoted to one literary or linguistic
region are warmly encouraged. It is the editors’ objective to foster the comparative and
multi-disciplinary investigation of the written and oral literary products of this area.
1. SHEHERAZADE THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS
Eva Sallis
2. THE PALESTINIAN NOVEL
Ibrahim Taha
3. OF DISHES AND DISCOURSE
Geert Jan van Gelder
4. MEDIEVAL ARABIC PRAISE
POETRY
Beatrice Gruendler
5. MAKING THE GREAT BOOK
OF SONGS
Hilary Kilpatrick
6. THE NOVEL AND THE
RURAL IMAGINARY IN EGYPT,
1880–1985
Samah Selim
7. IBN ABI TAHIR TAYFUR
AND ARABIC WRITERLY
CULTURE
A ninth-century bookman in Baghdad
Shawkat M. Toorawa
8. RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES IN
MODERN MUSLIM AND JEWISH
LITERATURES
Edited by Glenda Abramson and
Hilary Kilpatrick
9. ARABIC POETRY
Trajectories of modernity and tradition
Muhsin J. al-Musawi
10. MEDIEVAL ANDALUSIAN COURTLY
CULTURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Three ladies and a lover
Cynthia Robinson
11. WRITING AND REPRESENTATION
IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM
Muslim horizons
Julia Bray
12. NATIONALISM, ISLAM AND WORLD
LITERATURE
Sites of confluence in the writings of
Mahm¯ d al-Masad¯
u
ı
Mohamed-Salah Omri
13. THE ORAL AND THE WRITTEN IN
EARLY ISLAM
Gregor Schoeler
Translated by Uwe Vagelpohl
Edited by James Montgomery
14. LITERATURE, JOURNALISM AND THE
AVANT-GARDE
Intersection in Egypt
Elizabeth Kendall
15. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
Space, travel and transformation
Richard van Leeuwen
THE ORAL AND THE WRITTEN
IN EARLY ISLAM
Gregor Schoeler
Translated by
Uwe Vagelpohl
Edited by
James E. Montgomery
First published 2006
by Routledge
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© 2006 Gregor Schoeler
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ISBN10: 0–415–39495–3
ISBN13: 978–0–415–39495–6

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