Hadith Commentary : : Continuity and Change / / ed. by Stefanie Brinkmann, Joel Blecher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Aghaei, Ali,; Bednarkiewicz, Maroussia,; Blecher, Joel,; Brinkmann, Stefanie,; Dajani, Samer,
• HerausgeberIn: Blecher, Joel,; Brinkmann, Stefanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology : SIST
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations

Explores key texts and critical themes of hadith commentaryRepresents a milestone for the field: the first-ever edited volume on the important subject of hadith commentaryPresents diverse case studies of hadith commentaries across time, place and sectDelivers new insights into themes of Islam and politics, Islamic mysticism, Islamic law, Islamic philosophy and the digital humanitiesOffers cross-disciplinary models of cutting-edge methods in textual studies from a group of international scholarsHadith 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 that spans 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction What is Hadith Commentary? -- Part I Formations and Developments in the Early and Middle Periods -- Chapter 1 Between Philology and Hadith Criticism: The Genre of Sharḥ Gharīb al-Ḥadīth -- Chapter 2 The Hermeneutics of al-Sharīf al- Murtaḍā: The Interpretation of akhbār al-āḥād in Kitāb al-Amālī -- Chapter 3 ‘Blessed are the Strangers (ghurabāʾ)’: An Apocalyptic Hadith on the Virtues of Loneliness, Sadness and Exile -- Chapter 4 Sufi Contributions to Hadith Commentary -- Chapter 5 Ibn Rajab’s Commentary on al-Nawawī’s Forty Hadith: Innovation and Audience in the Jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm wa-l-ḥikam -- Chapter 6 The Words of the Imam beyond Philosophy and Tradition: Shīʿī Hadith Commentaries in the Ṣafavid Period -- Part II Modern Recollections and Reimaginings -- Chapter 7 Contesting Ḥanafī Thought in a Twentieth-century Turkish Hadith Commentary -- Chapter 8 Debating Authority and Authenticity in Modern South Asian Hadith Commentaries: Muḥammad Zakariyyā Kāndhalawī’s Awjaz al-masālik -- Chapter 9 ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Exegetical Hadiths in al-Mīzān: A Contemporary Imāmī Commentary on Hadith? -- Chapter 10 Studying Hadith Commentaries in the Digital Age -- Afterword: More Comments, Further Questions -- Index