The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The Fragment and the Whole

doi:10.1017/9783959940696

This book 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: (i) the text and its materiality; (ii) the structure of the text and the dynamic relationship between the fragment and the whole; (iii) 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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- By Asma Hilali
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Preface
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Introduction
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- By Asma Hilali
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1 - Exploring the Fragment
pp 9-26
- By Asma Hilali, S. R. Burge
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2 - Conceptualising Books in Mesopotamia: The Composition of Extispicy Treatises in the Old-Babylonian Period
pp 27-34
- By Jean-Jacques Glassner
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3 - Modelling the Paleo-Qurʾān: Declamations, Reiterations, Fragments and Collations
pp 35-76
- By Aziz Al-Azmeh
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4 - The Mobility of the Fragment: The ‘Qurʾānic Variants’ as an Example
pp 77-86
- By Asma Hilali
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5 - Compilation Criticism: Reading and Interpreting Ḥadīth Collections Through the Prism of Fragmentation and Compilation
pp 87-110
- By S. R. Burge
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6 - The Synchronic and the Diachronic Qurʾān: Sūrat Yā Sīn, Lot’s People, and the Rabbis
pp 111-174
- By Holger Zellentin
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7 - Isolated Qurʾānic Fragments: The Case of the Three Papyri from the Mingana Collection
pp 175-198
- By Alba Fedeli
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8 - Fragmentation and Variation in the First Islamic Graffiti (1-2 C. AH)
pp 199-220
- By Frédéric Imbert
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Bibliography
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About the Contributors
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Exploring the Fragment
pp 9-26

2 - Conceptualising Books in Mesopotamia: The Composition of Extispicy Treatises in the Old-Babylonian Period
pp 27-34

3 - Modelling the Paleo-Qurʾān: Declamations, Reiterations, Fragments and Collations
pp 35-76

4 - The Mobility of the Fragment: The ‘Qurʾānic Variants’ as an Example
pp 77-86

5 - Compilation Criticism: Reading and Interpreting Ḥadīth Collections Through the Prism of Fragmentation and Compilation
pp 87-110

6 - The Synchronic and the Diachronic Qurʾān: Sūrat Yā Sīn, Lot’s People, and the Rabbis
pp 111-174

7 - Isolated Qurʾānic Fragments: The Case of the Three Papyri from the Mingana Collection
pp 175-198

8 - Fragmentation and Variation in the First Islamic Graffiti (1-2 C. AH)
pp 199-220

Bibliography
pp 221-244

About the Contributors
pp 245-246

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