Scripts and scripture: writing and religion in Arabia circa 500-700 CE
"How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, 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 confere...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
2022
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Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East (number 3)
Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East
number 3 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Arabia
/ Writing system
/ Arabian writing
/ Koran
/ Late Antiquity
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Inscription B Conference program 2017 (Chicago) B Islam B Arabia B Development B Religion B Judaism B Arabic language B Arabian writing B Koran |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781614910749 |
| Summary: | "How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, 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 Qur'an, 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 Qur'anic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain terms used in the Qur'an also form part of this rich volume"-- |
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| Item Description: | Proceedings of a conference at the University of Chicago on May 18-19, 2017 (p. xviii) |
| ISBN: | 1614910731 |