Beyond Authenticity, Alternative Approaches to Hadith Narrations and Collections

Mohammad Gharaibeh, Ph.D. (2012), University of Bonn, is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has published on modern reform movements, Islamic creed, Arabic historiography, and Hadith Studies and approaches Islamic intellectual history from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Beyond AuthenticityAlternative Approaches to Hadith and Hadith LiteratureMohammad Gharaibeh1 Compilation CriticismExploring Overarching Structures in the Six BooksStephen R. Burge2 Teaching Islam in YemenInsights from Two Forty Hadith CollectionsScott C. Lucas3 The Prophet’s Ideal in Pocket-SizeSunni Forty Hadith CollectionsSwantje Bartschat4 The aḥādīth al-aḥkām Genre and the Ḥanbalī SchoolJewel Jalil5 The ʿawālī Genre and Its Social DimensionMohammad Gharaibeh6 For the Love of the ProphetFaḍāʾil in the Early Modern Ottoman ContextDženita Karić7 “As If the Prophet Stood in Front of You”The Performative Meaning of Hadith Transmission and Its Prophetological Background in Late Formative SunnismRuggero Vimercati Sanseverino8 Old Is the New AuthenticArabic Papyri as a Source for Early HadithUrsula Bsees9 The Materiality of Hadith Scholarship in the Post-Canonical PeriodKonrad Hirschler10 Where Was Hadith Read in Damascus?Audition Notices and the Loci of Hadith Transmission in Medieval DamascusGarrett Davidson11 The Word of the Beloved Prophet of IslamHadiths Inscribed on Cairo’s Islamic ArchitectureNoha Abou-Khatwa12 Hadith Inscriptions in Medieval Anatolian ArchitectureThe Case of the Qaraṭay Madrasa in Konya and the Great Mosque in BirgiMehmetcan AkpınarIndex