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"""Engaging and informative, this impressive book explores the rich genre of commentary literature that developed around the interpretation of the Hadith. With its broad coverage and analysis, the work should serve as a valuable reference source for the academic study of the Prophetic hadiths."" -Mustafa Shah, SOAS, University of London"

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Joel Blecher is Associate Professor of History at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, the author of Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary Across a Millennium (University of California Press, 2018), and co-translator of Ibn ?ajar al-?Asqal?n?'s Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics, 2023). His other writings have appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Law & Society, Oriens, and several edited volumes. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Library of Congress, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.Stefanie Brinkmann is Research Fellow at the Bibliotheca Arabica Project at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. Trained in Arabic, Persian, and Roman Studies, she had acting professorships at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, and was member and principal investigator of a number of manuscript projects. She has published in the fields of manuscript studies, especially on hadith manuscripts, material culture in hadith, and classical Arabic poetry.

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