Steiner

not engaged in the GA corpus

Cross-tradition

• Islamic manuscript traditionDedicatory prefaces in classical Islamic scholarly works (e.g., hadith collections) serve an analogous function: situating the transmission within a chain of authority and dedicating the labor to divine purpose, establishing the text's legitimacy before the legal or spiritual content begins.
• Christian scholastic traditionMedieval European scholastic compilations (e.g., Aquinas's Summa) similarly employ dedicatory or prefatory frames that consecrate the intellectual work to God, showing cross-tradition congruence in the practice of marking sacred texts as acts of devotion rather than mere scholarship.