Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law

Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Ahmet Temel, Istanbul University, Turkey Usman Ghani, University of Wales Trinity St. David, UK Aisha Y. Musa, Colgate University, USA Ersilia Francesca, University of Naples, Italy Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University, USA Gavin Picken, American University of Sharjah, UAE Harith bin Ramli, Cambridge Muslim College, UK Amr Osman, Qatar University

• Introduction: The Concept of Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law; Adis Duderija1.      The Concept of Sunna Based on the Analysis of Sīra and Historical Works from the First Three Centuries of Islam; Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort2.      Uṣūl al-sunna: The Tenets of Islamic Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy According to the Traditionalists (Ahl al-ḥadīth); Ahmet Temel3.       The Concept of Sunna in Muctazilite Thought; Usman Ghani4.       The Sunnification of Ḥadīth and the Hadithification of Sunna; Aisha Y. Musa5.        The Concept of Sunna in the Ibadi Madhhab; Ersilia Francesca6.       The Concept of Sunna in Early and Medieval Ḥanafism; Ali Altaf Mian7.       The Concept of Sunna in the Early Shāfiʿī Madhhab; Gavin Picken8.       From Tradition to Institution: Sunna in the Early Ḥanbalī School; Harith bin Ramli9.        Sunna in the Ẓāhirī Madhhab; Amr Osman10.   The Relative Status of Ḥadīth and Sunna as Sources of Legal Authority vis-à-vis the Qurʾān in Muslim Modernist Thought; Adis DuderijContributor Biographies

“A new academic work on Sunna is welcome, in order to update researchers and readers on current debates on Sunna and Hadith. … the book offers access to a wide range of conceptions of Sunna among legal theorists, jurists, theologians and traditionalists. … this book has its place in Sunna studies, and should be useful for teachers, students and researchers in Islamic studies.” (Abdessamad Belhaj, Islam and Christian–Muslim relations, Vol. 28 (3), 2017)