The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Written

Gregor Schoeler is Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies in the Orientalisches Seminar at the University of Basel. His many publications include The Oral and the Written in Early Islam (2006). Shawkat M. Toorawa is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture (2005).Schoeler, Gregor is the author of 'The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Written', published 2008 under ISBN 9780748624676 and ISBN 0748624678.