Critical Issues in Islamic Studies
Critical Methods on Hadīth: Self Reflexivity in Hadīth Scholarship
Hadīth narration, I argue, remained an excessively self-critical and selfreflective activity regarding ties, identities, and networks, but not only regarding narrative texts. The Sciences of hadīth, which emerged gradually parallel to the formation of hadīth transmission network, document the way hadīth narrators examined their own network.1 A survey of this literature below will show that narrators developed a differentiated view to hadīth, its narrators and types of their ties. Furthermore, they analyzed patterns in the transmission networks of hadīth to determine the degree of reliability.
Hadith: Origins and Developments by Harald Motzki
Muslims produced several metanarratives on hadith since its rise as a narrative genre in Islamic history, which gradually became more and more systematic. Among them are usul al-
Sociology of Rights: Inviolability of the Other in Islam between Communalism Universalistism
This book provides a counterweight to the prevailing opinions of Islamic thought as conservative and static with a preference for violence over dialogue. It gathers together a collection of eminent scholars from around the world who tackle issues such as intellectual pluralism, gender, the ethics of political participation, human rights, non-violence and religious harmony. This book provides a progressive outlook for
Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network
In both the social sciences and the humanities, current scholarship typically examines speech and social action as separate entities. But do they truly act in isolation? In Narrative Social Structure, Recep Senturk challenges the prevailing understandings of speech and social action, of actor and organization.
Using the example of the
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing
The role of philosophy in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī has been a source of much debate among scholars of Islamic intellectual history and among