TY - JOUR
TI - The Oral and Written Traditions of the Qur’an and Its Place in Early Islam
AU - Grodzki, Marcin
TI - The Oral and Written Traditions of the Qur’an and Its Place in Early Islam
AB - 
	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).
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 54 Issue 1
PY - 2021
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 45
EP - 62
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.21.004.13928
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/tradycja-ustna-i-pisemna-koranu-a-jego-miejsce-we-wczesnym-islamie
KW - Qur’an
KW - Qur’anic studies
KW - early Islam
KW - sacred text codification and canonization
KW - late-antique Middle East