Muslim Studies

This book ranks high among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam. Indeed this work, originally published in German in 1889-1890, can be justly counted among those which laid the foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion and a civilization. The first volume of the English translation was published in 1967. This second volume contains the famous study of the development of he Hadith, the "traditions" ascribed to Muhammand, in which the Hadith is shown to reflect the various trends of early Islam, and in which its collection, and the subsequent literature devoted to it, is described.another essay concerns the cult of saints, which through contrary to the spirit and the letter of the earliest Islam, yet played a very important part in its subsequent development. A final section contains a number of brief studies on varied subjects. Professional book seller with storefront since 1975. All orders carefully packaged and promptly shipped.