Stories between Christianity and Islam

Stories between Christianity and Islam

Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Durmaz, Reyhan

University of California Press

10/2022

276

Dura

Inglês

9780520386464

15 a 20 dias

544

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Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and References

Introduction
Narrating Stories
Sorting Stories
Remembering Stories

1. Storytelling in Late Antique Christianity
Hagiography and Orality
A World of Storytelling
Storytellers in Late Antique Christianity
Hagiographic Interviews and Audience Participation

2. "How Is Muhammad a Better Storyteller Than I?"
Who Is Narrating?
Storytelling in the Quran
The Broader Late Antique Context of Quranic Storytelling
Functions of Storytelling in Muhammad's Preaching
Narrating Stories after Muhammad

3. "Ask Him about the Youths": Narrating the Quran with Christian Saints
Q18: The Cave
The Companions of the Cave
The Rich Man and the Poor Man
Moses, the Unnamed Servant of God, and the Two-Horned

4. Christian Saints in Islamic Literature
Remembering Saint Antony
South Arabian Historiography and Alexander the Believing King
Saint George in Al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings
Looking at Buildings, Narrating Saint Marutha

5. From Paul and John to Fimyun and Salih
Transformation of a Story
Ibn Ishaq on the Authority of Wahb b. Munabbih
Fimyun and S. alih in Context

6. Stories between Christianity and Islam
Monks, Monasticism, and the Islamic Notion of Sanctity
Authorship and Transmission of Hagiographic Knowledge
Narratives in and of the Family

Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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