The Excellences of the Quran

Textual Sacrality and the Organization of Early Islamic Society

Bibliographic Data

ID4855158
AuthorsAsma Afsaruddin (0009-0003-0643-1012, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume122
Issue1
Pages1
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3087649
OpenAlexW2332831102
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Fada⊂il al-Qur⊂an is the usual title given to chapters in various hadith compilations or to individual works that deal with the excellences or merits of the Qur⊂an. It is a sub-category of a literary genre in Islam called fada'il or manaqib (virtues or excellences). In general, this fada'il material has not been studied in depth, and is usually dismissed as praise or hagiographic literature unworthy of the historian's serious attention. This article shows that both the religious and the social historian may profitably mine the fada⊂il al-Qur⊂an literature for valuable insights into, e.g., the position of Qur⊂ a n-reciters in early Islamic society, early attitudes towards writing conventions in the mushafs, modes of recitation, the probity of accepting wages for teaching the Qur⊂an, and the authoritativeness of oral vs. written transmission of the Qur⊂anic text. Vestiges of these issues encoded in fada⊂il al-Qur⊂an traditions have broader implications for the reconstruction of the religious and intellectual milieu of the formative period of Islam

Archaeology · Islam · Education and Islamic Studies · Families in Therapy and Culture · History · Islamic Studies and History

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