The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to The Hadith von Daniel W Brown

<p><b>The most comprehensive and up-to-date English-language guide on hadith scholarship</b></p><p>The source of much of our knowledge of the first two centuries of Islamic history, the hadith literature is made up of thousands of traditions collected during the formative years of Islam. Alongside the Qur'an, the hadith forms a second major body of Islamic scripture, and much of Islamic belief and practice rests on the hadith including Islamic law, Islamic theology, Qur'anic interpretation, political thought, and personal behavior. Yet despite its importance to Muslims worldwide and its indispensable role as a source for early Islamic history, the hadith remains unexplored territory for many non-specialist readers.</p><p><i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Hadith</i>is a concise yet comprehensive overview of both Islamic and Western traditions of hadith study, offering up-to-date scholarship and providing readers with an essential guide to this distinctive aspect of Islam.</p><p>Written by a multidisciplinary team of distinguished scholars, the<i>Companion</i>discusses questions of authenticity, epistemology and authority in the hadith and explores the relationship of the hadith literature to other ways of transmitting knowledge and establishing authority.<i></i></p><ul><li>Covers the origins of hadith, the application of hadith within the Islamic intellectual tradition, and contemporary revaluations of hadith literature</li><li>Addresses developments in modern scholarship about the origins of Islam and Islamic law which are rooted in a revaluation of hadith</li><li>Presents new and groundbreaking research from international scholars from divergent perspectives to present an accurate and lively overview of the field</li><li>Explores the emergence of skepticism about hadith among western scholars</li><li>Surveys the evolution of a wide range of approaches to hadith among modern Muslims</li></ul><p>Filling a significant gap in current literature in the field,<i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Hadith</i> is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and researchers in Islamic studies, Islamic law, history, and theology.</p>

Daniel W. Brown is Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion in the Middle East and author ofRethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought and A New Introduction to Islam.

List of Figures viiNotes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Daniel W. BrownI. Overview 131 The Classical Tradition 15Ghassan AbdulJabbar2 Western Hadith Studies 39Daniel W. BrownII. Beginnings 573 Revelation 59William A. Graham4 Muhammad 75Andreas Görke5 Recording 91Gregor Schoeler6 Dating 113Pavel PavlovitchIII. Growth 1357 Collections 137Ghassan AbdulJabbar8 Commentaries 159Mustafa Macit Karagözoglu9 Genres 187Roberto TottoliIV. Impact 20310 Law 205Christopher Melchert11 Exegesis 223Herbert Berg12 Theology 241Huseyin Hansu13 Sufism 265Aiyub Palmer14 Shiism 281Ahmad PakatchiV. Modernity 29515 Reform 297Jawad Anwar Qureshi16 Reappraisal 315Daniel W. Brown17 Gender 335Adis DuderijaBibliography 353Index 383

Funktionsweise E-Books.