Biblical source-criticism techniques inevitably transferred to studying early Islam
Evidence
Of course, such investigations by Eichhorn, Wolf and others had no direct relevance to the study of the Qur’an and the early history of Islam, but in the long run it was inevitable that scholars who had cut their teeth on source-critical techniques, as applied to the Bible or Greek and Latin texts, should think of applying those same techniques to early Arabic materials. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 275
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing the specific timeline: did Qur’anic source-criticism come late precisely because Islam was considered off-limits for so long?
- XREF: connects to: Early scholars inferred authorship of texts from assumed Muslim moral incapacity
Related
- Early scholars inferred authorship of texts from assumed Muslim moral incapacity (similarity 0.87)
- Wellhausen applied biblical source-criticism techniques to Islamic history (similarity 0.81)
- Early Muslim historians pioneered source criticism far ahead of any contemporary method (similarity 0.81)
- Early Arabic scholarship served Bible study, not the study of Islam itself. (similarity 0.80)
- Bible primacy made Latin writers structurally unable to credit the Qur’an (similarity 0.80)
- Source-critical Bible methods migrated to classical Greek texts (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Europeans could not distinguish the Qur’an from other Islamic books. (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christian thinkers could not conceive of non-Scriptural sources of truth (similarity 0.79)
- Arabic texts were prized for polemic authenticity yet intellectually ignored by Latin Christians (similarity 0.78)