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Tradycja ustna i pisemna Koranu a jego miejsce we wczesnym islamie

Publication date: 2021

Studia Religiologica, 2021, Volume 54 Issue 1, pp. 45 - 62

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.21.004.13928

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Marcin Grodzki
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
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Tradycja ustna i pisemna Koranu a jego miejsce we wczesnym islamie

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The Oral and Written Traditions of the Qur’an and Its Place in Early Islam

The paper considers the form, status, and importance of the Qur’anic message in the first two centuries of Islam. The argument is that the term “Qur’an” could not have originally referred to the final body of revelation in a text form. Rather, the concept of the Qur’an must have functioned among the faithful as a term for oral transmission before the scripturalization of the revelation, and it is this oral function of the Qur’an that is primal to its literate function. It seems that just as in Judaism and Christianity, in Islam the process of remembering, passing on, collecting, and codifying the textus receptus, along with its stabilization and sacralization, was a centuries-long self-propelled operation shaped primarily by the oral tradition (especially in the presumed culture of illiterate people).

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Information: Studia Religiologica, 2021, Volume 54 Issue 1, pp. 45 - 62

Article type: Original article

Titles:

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Tradycja ustna i pisemna Koranu a jego miejsce we wczesnym islamie

English:

The Oral and Written Traditions of the Qur’an and Its Place in Early Islam

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6744-1332

Marcin Grodzki
University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6744-1332 Orcid
All publications →

University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

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