Overview
This book is dedicated to examining the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions fromten scholars of Hadith, it addresses the subject from a variety of methodological vantage points and historical premises. Divided into two parts, it first looks at methods and approaches, and then presents 5 case studies focusing on specific questions and issues. Some of these authors seek to overturn, refine or reaffirm dominant paradigms within the field, while others look to expand its horizons in new directions. The global scope, and coverage of both longstanding debates and cutting edge methods and approaches, means this book will make a significant contribution to a controversial and challenging field.
Full Product Details
Author: Belal Abu-Alabbas ,
Michael Dann ,
Christopher Melchert
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474441797
ISBN 10: 1474441793
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 31 August 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"[...] a welcome contribution to the field, containing excellent, detailed, and thorough research.--Stephen Burge, The Institute of Ismaili Studies ""Journal of Qur'anic Studies 24.1 (2022)"" The study of Hadiths only grows in importance. Hadiths are both a crucial (and highly contested) source for understanding Islam's origins and also the idiom in which Muslim scholars have expressed their commitment to their faith and constructed their relationships to each other. The volume brings together an excellent sampling of the state of the field, with senior scholars and promising young academics alike bringing the latest theories and methodologies to bear on questions of historical authenticity of Hadiths and their crucial role in the development of Islamic thought and culture.--Jonathan AC Brown, Georgetown University [...] Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches, [..] is the first systematic, inclusive multi-authored study of hadith theory and method that focuses on both the pre-modern and modern periods and both Islamic and Western scholarship of hadith.--Mourad Laabdi ""Religion"""
Author Information
Belal Abu-Alabbas is British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Exeter and a Lecturer at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He publishes in the fields of Islamic intellectual history, Islamic legal thought, and the history of the hadith corpus. Christopher Melchert is a Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E (Brill, 1997), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Makers of the Muslim World) (Oneworld, 2006) and Hadith, Piety, and Law: Selected Studies (Lockwood, 2015) Michael Dann is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Illinois. He has published a chapter in Songs and Sons: Women, Slavery and Social Mobility in the Medieval Islamic World, edited by Matthew Gordon and Kathryn Hain (Oxford University Press, 2015).
