Modern Hadith studies : continuing debates and new approaches / edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and Christopher Melchert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abu-Alabbas, Belal, Author.

Contributor:

Abo-Alabbas, Belal, 1987- editor.

Melchert, Christopher, editor.

Dann, Michael, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hadith--Study and teaching.

Hadith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This book examines the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions from 10 scholars of Hadith, it addresses the subject from a variety of methodological vantage points and historical premises.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

FIGURES AND TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON CONVENTIONS

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. Kunnā nakrahu al-kitāb: Scripture, Transmission of Knowledge, and Politics in the Second Century ah (719–816 ce)

2. The History of the Adhān: a View from the Hadith Literature

3. Ibn al-Mubārak, Traditionist

4. Early ‘Traditionist Sufis’: A Network Analysis

5. The Common Link and its Relation to Hadith Terminology

6. Hadith Criticism between Traditionists and Jurisprudents

7. Hadith Criticism in the Levant in the Twentieth Century: From ẓāhir al-isnād to ʿilal al-ḥadīth

8. The Reception and Representation of Western Hadith Studies in Turkish Academe

9. Can Different Questions Yield the Same Answers? Islamic and Western Scholarship on Shiʿi Narrators in the Sunni Tradition

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474491228

1474491227

9781474441810

1474441815

OCLC:

1306538866