Carrying on the tradition : a social and intellectual history of Hadith transmission across a thousand years / by Garrett A. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Garrett A., author.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 160.

Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; volume 160

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hadith--Authorities.

Hadith.

Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

"In Carrying on the Tradition Garrett Davidson employs a variety of largely unutilized print, as well as archival sources collected from the Near East, North Africa, India, Europe, and North America. He analyses these sources to excavate the fundamental reinvention of the conceptions and practices of hadith transmission that resulted from the establishment of the hadith canon. Further, the book examines how hadith scholars reimagined the transmission of hadith, not as a scholarly tool, as it had originally been, but instead as, among other things, an act of pious emulation of the forefathers. It demonstrates the emergence of new genres and subgenres of hadith literature, as a result of this shift, examining them as artefacts of the cultural, social, and intellectual history of Muslim religiosity from the tenth to twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Reimagining Hadith Transmission in the Shadow of the Canon

2. The Post-canonical Evolution of Oral Hadith Transmission

3. Non-oral Transmission in the Oral Idiom: The Development and Function of the Ijāza

4. The High and the Low: Men, Women and the Social Aspect of Elevation

5. Brevity, Breadth and Elevation: The Forty Hadith and ʻAwālī Genres

6. Men of Books and Books of Men: The Muʻjam/Mashyakha and Fihrist/Thabat Catalog Genres

7. Hadith Transmission in an Age of Transformation and Reform

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Davidson, Garrett A., Carrying on the tradition

ISBN:

9789004386914

9004386912

OCLC:

1158510440