Beyond Authenticity, Alternative Approaches to Hadith Narrations and Collections

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Beyond Authenticity, Alternative Approaches to Hadith Narrations and Collections is written by Mohammad Gharaibeh and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 900452908X (ISBN 10) and 9789004529083 (ISBN 13).

The studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations, which has occupied the field of Hadith Studies for over a century. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to uncover the potential that hadith material has to better understand the intellectual and social history of Muslim societies. Applying concepts and methods from other disciplines, the authors study the materiality of hadith collections, the places they were read, and the ways they were incorporated in architecture. Additionally, they explore understudied genres such as the forty-hadith, the faḍāʾil, aḥādīth al-aḥkām, and ʿawālī collections. As such, they set a new course to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new direction.