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Scripts and Scripture - Writing and Religion in Arabia circa 500-700 CE (Paperback)
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Scripts and Scripture - Writing and Religion in Arabia circa 500-700 CE (Paperback)
Series: Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East
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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 and Christianity. 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 and various North Arabian dialects of
Semitic-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
several 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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