Open AccessTradycja ustna i pisemna Koranu a jego miejsce we wczesnym islamie
Author(s) -
Marcin Grodzki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zeszyty naukowe uniwersytetu jagiellońskiego. studia religiologica/studia religiologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-4077
pISSN - 0137-2432
DOI - 10.4467/20844077sr.21.004.13928
Subject(s) - revelation , islam , argument (complex analysis) , judaism , philosophy , christianity , function (biology) , term (time) , religious studies , history , theology , medicine , physics , evolutionary biology , biology , quantum mechanics
The Oral and Written Traditions of the Qur’an and Its Place in Early IslamThe 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).