Carrying on the Tradition : A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years

Garrett Davidson

ISBN 10: 9004386912 / ISBN 13: 9789004386914

Published by Koninklijke Brill BV Jul 2020, 2020

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Neuware - In Carrying on the Tradition Garrett Davidson employs a variety of largely unutilized print, as well as archival sources collected from the Near East, North Africa, India, Europe, and North America. He analyses these sources to excavate the fundamental reinvention of the conceptions and practices of hadith transmission that resulted from the establishment of the hadith canon. Further, the book examines how hadith scholars reimagined the transmission of hadith, not as a scholarly tool, as it had originally been, but instead as, among other things, an act of pious emulation of the forefathers. It demonstrates the emergence of new genres and subgenres of hadith literature, as a result of this shift, examining them as artefacts of the cultural, social, and intellectual history of Muslim religiosity from the tenth to twentieth centuries.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carrying on the Tradition : A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill BV Jul 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004386912
• ISBN 13: 9789004386914
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 163H x 25D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 622 grams

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Synopsis

In Carrying on the Tradition Garrett Davidson employs a variety of largely unutilized print, as well as archival sources collected from the Near East, North Africa, India, Europe, and North America. He analyses these sources to excavate the fundamental reinvention of the conceptions and practices of hadith transmission that resulted from the establishment of the hadith canon. Further, the book examines how hadith scholars reimagined the transmission of hadith, not as a scholarly tool, as it had originally been, but instead as, among other things, an act of pious emulation of the forefathers. It demonstrates the emergence of new genres and subgenres of hadith literature, as a result of this shift, examining them as artefacts of the cultural, social, and intellectual history of Muslim religiosity from the tenth to twentieth centuries.

About the Author

Garrett A. Davidson, Ph.D. (2014) University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the College of Charleston. His research focuses on hadith and the Arabic manuscript tradition.