The Oral and the Written in Early Islam fills this void and investigates the divergent and received cultural expressions of these processes among Muslims and within Muslim intellectual life of the early centuries of the Islamic Era (which corresponds to the seventh to tenth centuries of the Common Era). To date, however, there are no books available in English which provide an authoritative, reasoned and comprehensive overview of how the written and the oral interacted in early Islamic societies across Islamic intellectual life.
Traditionally, these books have focused mainly on the religious dimension, on literature and the development of genres, on the transmission of scholarly ideas and practices, or the intellectual foundations of the Islamic sciences. Over the last few decades a number of books have appeared on aspects of the written and the oral within pre-modern Islamic societies and in the context of the formation of their intellectual ideas. THE ORAL AND THE W RI T T E N I N E ARLY I SL AM
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