The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity. A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

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1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Divergence of Source Interpretation: the Methodenstreit No access Pages 1 - 14
2. Literary Transmission: Authors, Genres, Traditions No access Pages 15 - 38
3. Credibility and Factual Confirmation No access Pages 39 - 54
4. Genres, Authors and Antiquarians Revisited: the Snares of Narrative No access Pages 55 - 66
5. Fact, Fiction and Narrative Patterns: Ways of Reading No access Pages 67 - 86
6. Transmission of Testimony: the Voice, the Pen, and the Author No access Pages 87 - 100
7. The Pertinence of Poetical Evidence No access Pages 101 - 112
8. Preliminaries to the Use of the Qur’ān as an Historical Source No access Pages 113 - 124
Bibliography of Works Cited No access Pages 125 - 148
Index No access Pages 149 - 156