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Author: Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9004203893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides new insights into the transmission of the textual sources of Islam and combines this with the dynamics of these scriptures by paying close attention to how believers interpret and apply them.
Author: Everhard Ditters
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 795
ISBN-13: 9004160159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.
Author: Wolfhart Heinrichs
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harald Motzki
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1351931814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHadith is understood here in its broader meaning as the bulk of the texts which contain information on the prophet Muhammad and his Companions, having the form of transmissions from them. The reliability of this material as a source for early Islam is still a highly debated issue. This selection of articles presents the different points of view in this debate and the varying methodological approaches with which scholars trained in modern secular sciences have tried to find a solution to the problem.
Author: Nicolet Boekhoff- van der Voort
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9004180494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its inception, the study of ad th conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information to early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins . Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.
Author: Lyall R. Armstrong
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9004335528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Islamic qāṣṣ (preacher/storyteller) has been viewed most commonly as a teller of stories, primarily religious in nature and often unreliable. Building on material of over a hundred quṣṣāṣ from the rise of Islam through the end of the Umayyad period, this book offers the most comprehensive study of the early Islamic qāṣṣ to-date. By constructing profiles of these preachers/ storytellers and examining statements attributed to them, it argues that they were not merely storytellers but were in fact a complex group with diverse religious interests. The book demonstrates how the style and conduct of their teaching sessions distinguished them from other teachers and preachers and also explores their relationship with early religio-political movements, as well as with the Umayyad administration.
Author: Ramzī Baʻlabakkī
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9004168133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive study of SAbawayhi's methodological concepts and methods. It analyzes a wide range of the KitAba (TM)s passages, demonstrates the coherency of its authora (TM)s system of grammatical analysis, and highlights its huge influence on the grammatical tradition.
Author: Harald Motzki
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9004452907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with the controversial value of the sources on which the biography of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is based. Discussions on this topic have been going on for more than a century but it has become especially debated during the last two decades. This volume contains ten articles which are the outcome of an international colloquium on the issue. Part one of the book examines the development of the Muslim tradition concerning the life of Muhammad while the other part focuses on the historical reliability of the source material. The volume reflects not only the most recent methodological developments in the study of the life of Muhammad but also the improvement of its material-basis due to sources which have only recently become available or which have been neglected.
Author: Stephen J. Shoemaker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-07-09
Total Pages: 169
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lead essay in this book is the first effort to approach the historical figure of Muhammad in a manner comparable to the investigations that biblical scholars have made in the effort to recover the historical figure of Jesus. Using comparable methods and approaches, this study demonstrates that despite a widely held belief that Islam was born "in the full light of history," we in fact know considerably less about both Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam than we do about the historical Jesus and the beginnings of Christianity. Also included are republications of four previously published essays dealing with such topics as the Qur'an's status as a late ancient biblical apocryphon, the relation between the Jerusalem Temple and the Holy House revered by the Qur'an, and the imminent eschatology of the Qur'an and the early Islamic tradition.
