Analysing Muslim Traditions

Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadīth
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-24338-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1780 g

Since its inception, the study of Hadith 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 Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

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)

Anthony, Sean W.
Sean W. Anthony, Ph.D. (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oregon. He is also the author of The Caliph & the Heretic: Ibn Saba' and the Origins of Shi'ism (Brill, 2012).

Motzki, Harald
Harald Motzki, Ph.D. (1978) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor emeritus of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Muslim traditions and Islamic social and legal history.

Boekhoff-van der Voort, Nicolet
Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Ph.D. (2012) in Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, is Lecturer of Arabic and Islam at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently preparing a book on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad as transmitted by Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri.

Harald Motzki, Ph.D. (1978) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor emeritus 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, Ph.D. (2012) in Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, is Lecturer of Arabic and Islam at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently preparing a book on the biography of the Prophet Muhammad as transmitted by Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri.

Sean W. Anthony, Ph.D. (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oregon. He is also the author of The Caliph & the Heretic: Ibn Saba' and the Origins of Shi'ism (Brill, 2012).