An Introduction to the Science of the Hadith: Kitab Mar'rifat Anwa' 'ilm Al-Hadith (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

Al-Shahrazuri, Ibn

ISBN 10: 185964158X / ISBN 13: 9781859641583

Published by Garnet Publishing, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

Title: An Introduction to the Science of the Hadith...

Publisher: Garnet Publishing

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

After the Qur'an itself, the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad form the most important foundation of Islamic thought. The hadith were accounts -- usually brief -- of the words and actions of the Prophet. As such, they were subjected to intense scrutiny by generations of Muslim scholars. Better know as the Muqaddima, Ibn al-Salah (1181-1245) composed this work while serving as the head of the Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiya in Damascus, one of the most prestigious institutions for the study of hadith in the Islamic world. Here he provides a complete overview of the science devoted to the study of the words and actions of the Prophet Muhammad, and also a guide to the terminology and techniques of the scholars of hadith as it summarizes most of the previous work on the subject and forms the basis of almost all later activity in the field. The book enjoyed immense popularity and influenced most subsequent writing on the subject.

About the Author:

The translator Eerik Dickinson has degrees from the University of Michigan and Yale University. He has taught Arabic and Islam at Yale and Hunter College in New York City. In addition to publishing several articles on hadith and the Arabic biographical tradition in learned journals, he has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an and Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. His first book The Development of early Sunnite Hadith Criticism appeared in 2001. He also writes on Arabic dialectology.