Analysing Muslim Traditions

Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadīth
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-18049-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 981 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Since its inception, the study of ḤadÄ«th 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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in history and culture of Islam and the Middle East, students and scholars of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion as well as historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Motzki, Harald

Boekhoff-Van Der Voort, Nicolet

Anthony, Sean W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF IBN SHIHAB AL-ZUHRI. A SOURCE-CRITICAL STUDY, Harald Motzki
2. WHITHER HADITH STUDIES?, Harald Motzki
3. THE PROPHET AND THE DEBTORS. A HADITH ANALYSIS UNDER SCRUTINY, Harald Motzki
4. AL-RADD 'ALA L-RADD: CONCERNING THE METHOD OF HADITH ANALYSIS, Harald Motzki
5. THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIM EXEGESIS. A DEBATE, Harald Motzki
6. THE RAID OF THE HUDHAYL: IBN SHIHAB AL-ZUHRI’S VERSION OF THE EVENT, Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort
7. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EARLY MEDINA: THE ORIGINS OF A MAGHAZI-TRADITION, Sean W. Anthony

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.