The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Read (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)
A review such as this cannot do justice to the wealth of detail and useful insights contained in this book and readers are strongly recommended to read it for themselves...--the present work is clearly an important contribution to the necessary task of appreciating the co-existence and interplay of the oral and the written in early Islamic culture and how expectations about the one should not allow us to mistake or misunderstand the other. -- Yasin Dutton, University of Cape Town Journal of Islamic Studies A review such as this cannot do justice to the wealth of detail and useful insights contained in this book and readers are strongly recommended to read it for themselves...--the present work is clearly an important contribution to the necessary task of appreciating the co-existence and interplay of the oral and the written in early Islamic culture and how expectations about the one should not allow us to mistake or misunderstand the other.