The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity: A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

Aziz Al-Azmeh

doi:10.1017/9783940924438

This work provides a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Aziz Al-Azmeh considers the value and relevance of a range of literary sources, including orality and literacy, ancient Arabic poetry, the corpus of Arab heroic lore (ayyam), the early narrative, and the Qur'an. The work includes a very extensive bibliography of the works cited. This is the first book in the Gerlach Press series Theories and Paradigms of Islamic Studies.

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A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-xii

1 - Divergence of Source Interpretation:the Methodenstreit
pp 1-14

2 - Literary Transmission: Authors, Genres, Traditions
pp 15-38

3 - Credibility and Factual Confirmation
pp 39-54

4 - Genres, Authors and Antiquarians Revisited:the Snares of Narrative
pp 55-66

5 - Fact, Fiction and Narrative Patterns:Ways of Reading
pp 67-86

6 - Transmission of Testimony: the Voice, the Pen, and the Author
pp 87-100

7 - The Pertinence of Poetical Evidence
pp 101-112

8 - Preliminaries to the Use of the Qur'ān as an Historical Source
pp 113-124

Bibliography of Works Cited
pp 125-148

Index
pp 149-155

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