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This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of the modalities, actors, technicalities and consequences of the evolving of religious texts within the perspective of the fragment versus the whole.
The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources, and includes contributions on Qur'anic manuscripts, early graffiti, the formation of the Qur'anic canon, the Hadith literature, and Old Babylonian extispicy texts.
Three main topics are addressed: the text and its materiality; the structure of the text and the dynamic relationship between the fragment and the whole; and methods of shaping and reshaping traditions.
The hermeneutical experience of the fragment versus the whole is explored in depth throughout, and the consequences addressed for the history of the religious text, its composition, its reception and its interpretation.
The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources, and includes contributions on Qur'anic manuscripts, early graffiti, the formation of the Qur'anic canon, the Hadith literature, and Old Babylonian extispicy texts.
Three main topics are addressed: the text and its materiality; the structure of the text and the dynamic relationship between the fragment and the whole; and methods of shaping and reshaping traditions.
The hermeneutical experience of the fragment versus the whole is explored in depth throughout, and the consequences addressed for the history of the religious text, its composition, its reception and its interpretation.
Price: £85.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Publication Date:
30 June 2019
ISBN: 9783959940702
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction
Asma Hilali
1 Exploring the Fragment
Asma Hilali and S. R. Burge
2 Conceptualising Books in Mesopotamia: The Composition of Extispicy Treatises in the Old-Babylonian Period 2
Jean-Jacques Glassner
3 Modelling the Paleo-Qurʾān: Declamations, Reiterations, Fragments and Collations
Aziz Al-Azmeh
4 The Mobility of the Fragment: The ‘Qurʾānic Variants’ as an Example
Asma Hilali
5 Compilation Criticism: Reading and Interpreting Ḥadīth Collections Through the Prism of Fragmentation and Compilation
S. R. Burge
6 The Synchronic and the Diachronic Qurʾān: Sūrat Yā Sīn, Lot’s People, and the Rabbis
Holger Zellentin
7 Isolated Qurʾānic Fragments: The Case of the Three Papyri from the Mingana Collection
Alba Fedeli
8 Fragmentation and Variation in the First Islamic Graffiti (1-2 C. AH)
Frédéric Imbert
Bibliography
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