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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.

Title Hadith commentary : continuity and change / edited by Joel Blecher and Stefanie Brinkmann.
Contributors Blecher, Joel, 1982- (editor)
Brinkmann, Stefanie, 1969- (editor)
Publisher Edinburgh : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Includes bibliography and index.
Content Introduction: What is Hadith Commentary? / Joel Blecher and Stefanie Brinkmann -- Part l: Formations and Developments in the Early and Middle Periods. Between Philology and Hadith Criticism: The Genre of Sharh Gharib al-Hadith / Stefanie Brinkmann -- The Hermeneutics of al-Sharif al-Murtadä: The Interpretation of akhbār al-āhād in Kitāb al-Amāli / Ali Aghaei -- 'Blessed are the Strangers (ghurabā)': An Apocalyptic Hadith on the Virtues of Loneliness, Sadness and Exile / Youshaa Patel -- Sufi Contributions to Hadith Commentary / Samer Dajani -- Ibn Rajab's Commentary on al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith: Innovation and Audience in the Jāmi' al-Culūm wa-l-bikam / Mohammad Gharaibeh -- The Words of the Imām beyond Philosophy and Tradition: Shī'ī Hadith Commentaries in the Safavid Period / Sajjad Rizvi -- Part Il Modern Recollections and Reimaginings. Contesting Hanafi Thought in a Twentieth-century Turkish Hadith Commentary / Susan Gunasti -- Debating Authority and Authenticity in Modern South Asian Hadith Commentaries: Muhammad Zakariyyā Kāndhalawrs / Awjaz al-masālik, Ali Altaf Mian -- Allāma and Exegetical Hadiths in al-Mlzān: A Contemporary Imāmi Commentary on Hadith? / Shadi Nafisi -- Studying Hadith Commentaries in the Digital Age / Maroussia Bednarkiewicz, Aslisho Qurboniev and Gowaart Van Den Bossche -- Afterword: More Comments, Further Questions / Joel Blecher.
Series Edinburgh studies in Islamic scripture and theology
Extent xii, 308 pages : illustrations
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2023
National Library system number 997012412900805171

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