Overview
Since its inception, the study of Hadith conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information to early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins . Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.
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Author: Harald Motzki ,
Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort ,
Sean W. Anthony
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 78
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9789004180499
ISBN 10: 9004180494
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 23 November 2009
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2012. The thesis of the volume [...] is that a careful analysis if isnad (chain of transmittars) and matn (text) will afford a fairer reconstruction of the history of e25;ad b;th and indeed its probative value as a historical source [...] Overall, this is a significant work which has succesfully challenged and thrown into relief many of the erroneous and inaccurate postulations that have held sway [...] in e25;ad b;th, exegetical and jurisprudential studies. Amidu Olekan Sami in JOAS 22 (2013), 366-368.
World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2012. The thesis of the volume [...] is that a careful analysis if isnad (chain of transmittars) and matn (text) will afford a fairer reconstruction of the history of adith and indeed its probative value as a historical source [...] Overall, this is a significant work which has succesfully challenged and thrown into relief many of the erroneous and inaccurate postulations that have held sway [...] in adith, exegetical and jurisprudential studies. Amidu Olekan Sami in JOAS 22 (2013), 366-368.
World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2012. The thesis of the volume [...] is that a careful analysis if isnad (chain of transmittars) and matn (text) will afford a fairer reconstruction of the history of hadith and indeed its probative value as a historical source [...] Overall, this is a significant work which has succesfully challenged and thrown into relief many of the erroneous and inaccurate postulations that have held sway [...] in hadith, exegetical and jurisprudential studies. Amidu Olekan Sami in JOAS 22 (2013), 366-368.
Author Information
Harald Motzki, Ph.D. (1978) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Muslim traditions and Islamic social and legal history. Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, MA (1996) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen. She has nearly completed her Ph.D. thesis on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad compiled by Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri. Sean W. Anthony, Ph.D. (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is currently revising his Ph.D. thesis on Ibn Saba' and the origins of Shi'ism for publication.
