1. Kunnā nakrahu al-kitāb: Scripture, Transmission of Knowledge, and Politics in the Second Century ah (719–816 ce)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. FIGURES AND TABLES vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
5. NOTE ON CONVENTIONS ix
6. Notes on Contributors x
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. Kunnā nakrahu al-kitāb: Scripture, Transmission of Knowledge, and Politics in the Second Century ah (719–816 ce) 9
9. 2. The History of the Adhān: a View from the Hadith Literature 27
10. 3. Ibn al-Mubārak, Traditionist 49
11. 4. Early ‘Traditionist Sufis’: A Network Analysis 70
12. 5. The Common Link and its Relation to Hadith Terminology 97
13. 6. Hadith Criticism between Traditionists and Jurisprudents 129
14. 7. Hadith Criticism in the Levant in the Twentieth Century: From ẓāhir al-isnād to ʿilal al-ḥadīth 151
15. 8. The Reception and Representation of Western Hadith Studies in Turkish Academe 171
16. 9. Can Different Questions Yield the Same Answers? Islamic and Western Scholarship on Shiʿi Narrators in the Sunni Tradition 192
17. Index 215