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The Canonization of Al-Bukhārī And Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon (Islamic History and Civilization) - Softcover

 
9789004211520: The Canonization of Al-Bukhārī And Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon (Islamic History and Civilization)
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The two 'Authentic' adth collections of al-Bukhr and Muslim are the most famous books in Islam after the Qur'n a reality left unstudied until now. This book charts the origins, development and functions of these two texts through the lens of canonicity. It examines how the books went from controversial to indispensable as they became the common language for discussing the Prophets legacy among the various Sunni schools of law. The book also studies the role of the adth canon in ritual and narrative. Finally, it investigates the canonical culture built around the texts as well as the trend in Sunni scholarship that rejected it, exploring this tension in contemporary debates between Salaf movements and the traditional schools of law.

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Jonathan Brown (PhD 2006) is a professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His other publications included Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009) and Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2011).
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[Brown] has produced an ambitious study that will itself become a canon for the study of the canonization of the Saḥīḥayn and so like them it is worthy of much attention and analysis.
Herbert Berg

This is an unusual book in many ways, all of them good. Its scope is strikingly broad, it is in conversation with the latest scholarship both in the field of specialization and also in the wider world of theory, and it is well-written. While one may disagree with some of Brown's specific and general conclusions, this book deserves to be read for many years to come.
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Islamic Law and Society, 2010

"This study abandons the conventional genre to which the Orientalists, who have explored the prophetic tradition, have accustomed us: it really brings something new. [...] this book deserves to be consulted for a good number of years to come."
Michel Lagarde in Islamochristiana 37 (2011), p.306-307.

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  • PublisherBrill
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 9004211527
  • ISBN 13 9789004211520
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages454

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