TY - BOOK ID - 7241800 TI - Scripture, poetry, and the making of a community : reading the Qur'an as a literary text AU - Neuwirth, Angelika AU - Institute of ismaili studies (Londres) PY - 2014 VL - 10 SN - 9780198701644 0198701640 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Qur'an as literature. KW - Arabic literature KW - Islam KW - Islam. KW - History and criticism. KW - Relations KW - Christianity. KW - Judaism. KW - Qur'an KW - Evidences, authority, etc. KW - History. KW - Qurʾan as literature. KW - Authority KW - Entstehung. KW - Philologie. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Qurʾan KW - Qurʾan. KW - Koran. KW - 297.181 KW - Islam: canonieke boeken; Koran KW - 297.181 Islam: canonieke boeken; Koran KW - Koran KW - Qurʼan as literature. KW - Qurʼan KW - Qurʼan. KW - Al-Coran KW - Al-Qur'an KW - Alcorà KW - Alcoran KW - Alcorano KW - Alcoranus KW - Alcorão KW - Alkoran KW - Coran KW - Curān KW - Gulan jing KW - Karan KW - Koranen KW - Korani KW - Koranio KW - Korano KW - Ku-lan ching KW - Ḳurʼān KW - Kurāna KW - Kurani KW - Kuru'an KW - Qorān KW - Quräan KW - Qurʼān al-karīm KW - Qurʺon KW - Xuraan KW - Κοράνιο KW - Каран KW - Коран KW - קוראן KW - قرآن KW - Arabic literature - History and criticism. KW - Islam - Relations - Christianity. KW - Islam - Relations - Judaism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7241800 AB - We are used to understanding the Qur'an as the "Islamic text" par excellence, an assumption which, when viewed historically, is not evident at all. More than twenty years before it rose to the rank of Islamic Scripture, the Qur'an was an oral proclamation addressed by the Prophet Muhammad to pre-Islamic listeners, for the Muslim community had not yet been formed. We might best describe these listeners as individuals educated in late antique culture, be they Arab pagans familiar with the monotheistic religions of Judaism and Christianity or syncretists of these religions, or learned Jews and Christians whose presence is reflected in the Medinan suras. The interactive communication process between Muhammad and these groups brought about an epistemic turn in Arab Late Antiquity: with the Qur'anic discovery of writing as the ultimate authority, the nascent community attained a new 'textual coherence' where Scripture, with its valorisation of history and memory, was recognised as a guiding concept. It is within this new biblically imprinted world view that central principles and values of the pagan Arab milieu were debated. This process resulted in a twin achievement: the genesis of a new scripture and the emergence of a community. Two great traditions, then, the Biblical, transmitted by both Jews and Christians, and the local Arabic, represented in Ancient Arabic poetry, appear to have established the field of tension from which the Qur'an evolved; it is both Scripture and Poetry which have produced and shaped the new Muslim community. ER -