Continuing Debates and New Approaches<\/p>\n
Edited by: Belal Abu-Alabbas, Christopher Melchert, Michael Dann<\/p>\n
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press<\/p>\n
Publication Date:\u00a0 August 2020<\/p>\n
Brings together western and Middle Eastern scholars to explore medieval and modern approaches to the study of Hadith<\/p>\n
\u2022 Explores and analyses state-of-the-art scholarship in Hadith studies in Middle Eastern and Western contexts, covering a variety of approaches and methods to studying and evaluating the Hadith corpus
\n\u2022 Addresses several methodological issues and questions in evaluating Hadith reports
\n\u2022 Provides a rich analysis of the global trends in Hadith studies, affording a broad understanding of the field and bringing together contributions from scholarly communities typically inaccessible to one another<\/p>\n
About the Author<\/p>\n
– Belal Abu-Alabbas is British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Exeter and a Lecturer at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He publishes in the fields of Islamic intellectual history, Islamic legal thought, and the history of the hadith corpus.<\/p>\n
– Christopher Melchert is a Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E (Brill, 1997), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Makers of the Muslim World) (Oneworld, 2006) and Hadith, Piety, and Law: Selected Studies (Lockwood, 2015)<\/p>\n
– Michael Dann is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Illinois. He has published a chapter in Songs and Sons: Women, Slavery and Social Mobility in the Medieval Islamic World, edited by Matthew Gordon and Kathryn Hain (Oxford University Press, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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