The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity : a critique of approaches to arabic sources

Résumé

Collection : Theories and paradigms of Islamic studies Comprend : Divergence of source interpretation: the Methodenstreit ; Literary transmission: authors, genres, traditions ; Credibility and factual confirmation ; Genres, authors and antiquarians revisited: the snares of narrative ; Fact, fiction and narrative patterns: ways of reading ; Transmission of testimony: the voice, the pen, and the author ; The pertinence of poetical evidence ; Preliminaries to the use of the Qurʼān as an historical source.