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Education and Learning in the Early Islamic World
By
Claude Gilliot
Description
Studying
education and learning in the formative period of Islam is not
immediately easy, since the sources for this are relatively late and
frequently project backwards to the earlier period the assumptions
and conditions of their own day. The studies in this volume have been
selected for the critical approaches and methods of their authors,
and are arranged under five headings: the pedagogical tradition;
scholarship and attestation; orality and literacy; authorship and
transmission; and libraries. Together with the editor’s
introductory essay, they present a broad picture of the beginnings
and evolution of education and learning in the Islamic world.
Contents
Introduction. Part
I Pedagogical Tradition: Muslim education, Ignaz Goldziher; Some
aspects of the education of princes at the Abbasid court, Albert
Dietrich; The age structure of medieval Islamic education, Richard W.
Bulliet. Part II Scholarship and Attestation: The Islamic preacher:
wa\\\\\\\'iz, mudhakkir, qass, Johannes Pedersen; The scholarly formation of
al-Tabari, Claude Gilliot; The human element between text and reader:
the ijaza in Arabic manuscripts, Jan Just Witkam. Part III Orality
and Literacy: The oral transmission of knowledge in traditional
Islam, Georges Vajda; The office of the mustamli in Arabic
scholarship, Max Weisweiler; The etiquette of learning in early
Islamic study circle, Christopher Melchert. Part IV Authorship and
Transmission: The use of writing for the preservation of ancient
Arabic poetry, F. Krenkow; Authorship and transmission in unauthored
literature: the Ahbar attributed to al-Haytham ibn \\\\\\\'Adi, Stefan
Leder; On the legacy of the classics in the Islamic world, Richard
Walzer; On the transmission of Bukhari\\\\\\\'s collection of traditions,
Johann Fück; The introduction of hadith in al-Andalus, Maribel
Fierro; The transmission of knowledge in al-Andalus (up to 300/912),
Manuela Marin. Part V Libraries: Libraries and bibliophiles in the
Islamic East, Adolph Grohmann; Arabic books and libraries in the
Umaiyad period, Ruth Stellhorn Mackensen; The library of al-Hakam II
al-Mustansir and the culture of Islamic Spain, David Wasserstein;
Index.
About the Author/Editor
Claude Gilliot is
Professor of Arabic language and civilisation at the Université
de Provence, France.
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