Hadith commentary : continuity and change / edited by Joel Blecher and Stefanie Brinkmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blecher, Joel, 1982- editor.

Brinkmann, Stefanie, 1969- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic scripture and theology.

Edinburgh studies in Islamic scripture and theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Hadith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Hadith commentary has been a central site of Islamic intellectual life for more than a millennium, across diverse periods, regions and sects. This is the first volume of scholarly essays ever collected on the key texts and critical themes of hadith commentary. The book unfolds chronologically from the early centuries of Islam to the modern period, and readers will discover continuities and changes as a group of international experts offer illuminating studies of Sunnis, Shi'is and Sufis who interpret and debate the meaning of hadith over a wide terrain: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, India, and further. The volume also models a variety of methodological approaches, including social history, intellectual history, the study of religion, and digital history. By highlighting both differences and commonalities as the practice of hadith commentary circulated across distant eras and lands, this volume sheds new light on the way Muslims have historically understood the meaning of Muhammad's example.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction: What is Hadith Commentary?

Part I Formations and Developments in the Early and Middle Periods

1 Between Philology and Hadith Criticism: The Genre of Sharḥ Gharīb al-Ḥadīth

2 The Hermeneutics of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā: The Interpretation of akhbār al-āḥād in Kitāb al-Amālī

3 'Blessed are the Strangers (ghurabāʾ)': An Apocalyptic Hadith on the Virtues of Loneliness, Sadness and Exile

4 Sufi Contributions to Hadith Commentary

5 Ibn Rajab's Commentary on al-Nawawī's Forty Hadith: Innovation and Audience in the Jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm wa-l-ḥikam

6 The Words of the Imām beyond Philosophy and Tradition: Shīʿī Hadith Commentaries in the Ṣafavid Period

Part II Modern Recollections and Reimaginings

7 Contesting Ḥanafī Thought in a Twentieth-century Turkish Hadith Commentary

8 Debating Authority and Authenticity in Modern South Asian Hadith Commentaries: Muḥammad Zakariyyā Kāndhalawī's Awjaz al-masālik

9 ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Exegetical Hadiths in al-Mῑzān: A Contemporary Imāmī Commentary on Hadith?

10 Studying Hadith Commentaries in the Digital Age

Afterword: More Comments, Further Questions

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Blecher, Joel Hadith Commentary

ISBN:

1-4744-6106-9

OCLC:

1391442474