Modern Hadith Studies: Continuing Debates and New Approaches - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474441807 ISBN 13: 9781474441803

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This book is dedicated to examining the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions from ten 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.

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About the Authors

Dr Belal Abu-Alabbas, B.A. (Al-Azhar), DPhil (Oxford), is a historian of Islamic intellectual and legal thought (7th–13th centuries). His research focuses on the hadith corpus, Islamic law and theology in the formative and classical periods. Dr Abu-Alabbas has previously held lectureships at the University of Nottingham and the University of Bristol, and a British Academy International Fellowship at the University of Exeter. He currently holds lectureships at Cambridge Muslim College and Al-Azhar University and is a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham. Among his publications are Belal Abu‑Alabbas, Christopher Melchert, and Michael Dann, eds., Modern Hadith Studies: Continuing Debates and New Approaches (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and Belal Abu‑Alabbas, “The Principles of Hadith Criticism in the Writings of al‑Shāfiʿī and Muslim”, Islamic Law and Society 24:4 (2017): 311–35.

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).

From the Back Cover

Scholars from Europe, the Middle East and North America explore medieval and modern approaches to the study of HadithExamining and exemplifying the latest methods and trends in Hadith Studies, this book treats scholarship from the early Middle Ages to the 21st century. It looks at how hadiths were transmitted and organised by Muslim scholars to give us the collections we use today, and how hadiths were used to define the life of pietyas well as to tell us the revealed law. Some chapters seek to overturn, refine or reaffirm dominant paradigms within the field. Others look to expand our horizons in new directions. Comprising studies from the Middle East, Europe and North America, this book makes a major contribution to a controversial and challenging field.Key Features• Explores and analyses state-of-the-art scholarship in Hadith Studies in the Middle East and the West• Provides a rich analysis of the global trends in Hadith Studies, affording a broad understanding of the field and bringing together contributions from scholarly communities typically inaccessible to one anotherCase studies include• Setting down the Qur’an and Hadith in writing• The development of the Islamic call to prayer (adha n)• Ibn al-Mubarak, a famous 8th-century Hadith transmitter• 10th-century Sufi Hadith collectors• The technical term madar• Contrasts between the treatment of Hadith by specialists and jurisprudents• Controversy over Hadith in modern Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, and between Sunnis and Shi?isBelal Abu-Alabbas is British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Exeter. Michael Dann is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Illinois. Christopher Melchert is Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford..Cover image: manuscript image of a chapter heading from the book of exegesis of ?a?i? al-Bukhari with its parallel from the electronic Shamila LibraryCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4179-7Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474441807
• ISBN 13: 9781474441803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Abu-Alabbas Belal, Melchert Christopher, Dann Michael