Exploring the Fragment

As has been said previously above, the idea of this volume emerged from two workshops conceived and organised by Asma Hilali that took place successively in 2012 and 2013 at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, entitled Fragmentation and Compilation: The Making of Religious Texts in Islam – A Comparison with Ancient Mesopotamia, Judaism and Christianity.¹ The workshop included scholars working in the field of Islamic Studies, but also those working outside of the field, namely scholars of Mesopotamian texts, Judaism and Christianity, to help broaden the reflection on the concept of the fragment vs. the whole beyond Qur a