Analysing Muslim Traditions - Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadīth

The studies collected in this volume show that by careful analysis of the texts and the chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.

About the author

Harald Motzki, Ph.D. (1978) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor emeritus of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Muslim traditions and Islamic social and legal history.
Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Ph.D. (2012) in Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, is Lecturer of Arabic and Islam at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently preparing a book on the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad as transmitted by Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī.
Sean W. Anthony, Ph.D. (2009) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oregon. He is also the author of The Caliph & the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shiʿism (Brill, 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Sean W Anthony, Sean W. Anthony, Nicolet Boekhoff-Van Der Voort, Harald Motzki
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2012
• EAN: 9789004243385
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24338-5
• No. of pages: 518
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Islamic History and Civilizati
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous