Oral and the Written in Early Islam - Schoeler, Gregor (University of Basel, Switzerland) a Vagelpohl, Uwe a Montgomery, James E. (University of Cambridge, UK)

Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated in English for the first time, Gregor Schoeler gives a comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra.