Hadith Commentary
Continuity and Change
Stefanie Brinkmann editor Joel Blecher editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:18th May '23
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Hadith commentary has been a central site of Islamic intellectual life for more than a millennium, across diverse periods, regions and sects. This is the first volume of scholarly essays ever collected on the key texts and critical themes of hadith commentary. The book unfolds chronologically from the early centuries of Islam to the modern period, and readers will discover continuities and changes as a group of international experts offer illuminating studies of Sunnis, Shi’is and Sufis who interpret and debate the meaning of hadith over a wide terrain: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, India, and further. The volume also models a variety of methodological approaches, including social history, intellectual history, the study of religion, and digital history. By highlighting both differences and commonalities as the practice of hadith commentary circulated across distant eras and lands, this volume sheds new light on the way Muslims have historically understood the meaning of Muhammad’s example.
The papers in this volume span the pre-modern and the modern, address Sunni, Shii and Sufi writings, cover different geographical settings, as well as highlight digital methods. Altogether, this is a superb and much-needed contribution that attests to the importance of a discourse that has been undervalued in the secondary sources. -- Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh
Engaging and informative, this impressive book explores the rich genre of commentary literature that developed around the interpretation of the Hadith. With its broad coverage and analysis, the work should serve as a valuable reference source for the academic study of the Prophetic hadiths. -- Mustafa Shah, SOAS, University of London
The contributions brought together in this volume demonstrate both continuity and change across centuries and regions in the history, culture, and tradition of hadith commentary—stretching from ninth-century Khurasan until twentieth-century Turkey—and open up entirely new perspectives in which to explore and analyse this important genre. -- Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study
ISBN: 9781474461047
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312 pages