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Tawātur in Islamic Thought

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Transmission, Certitude and Orthodoxy

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvSuheil I. Laher

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Tawātur is the concept that information yields certainty if acquired through a sufficient number of independent channels. Tawātur in Islamic Thought is an attempt to unravel the twisted historical threads of the conception and usage of tawātur across diverse Islamic disciplines, in light of both Western academia and debates within Muslim scholarship. In the process, numerous salient questions in Islamic thought are tackled, such as epistemic certitude, scholarly consensus (ijmāʿ), and the rationalism–traditionalism relationship. The study culminates in the question of the extent to which tawātur was used by Muslim scholars to define the boundaries of Islam and of orthodoxy. Tawātur in Islamic Thought shows that the majority voices in Muslim scholarship, across sectarian boundaries, reached a steady-state conception of a two-tiered orthodoxy, corresponding to two tiers of tawātur – an outer tier that includes all who affirm a definitive kernel of Islam and an inner tier that is more exclusive.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399510820

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Suheil Ismail Laher is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Lead Faculty at Boston Islamic Seminary, Faculty Associate in Quranic Studies at Hartford International University. He previously served as Academic Dean at Fawakih Institute for Classical Arabic, where he remains a Senior Curriculum Advisor. He received an MA in Religious Studies from Boston University, and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University.

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: What is Tawātur?1. Historical Overview: Background and Trajectory2. Theology: Tawātur as a Bulwark against Error3. Hadith Sciences: How True is a Narration?4. Legal Theory: The Quest for Certainty5. Qur’an and Reading Traditions: Clarity and Conundrums6. Hadith Literature: Trajectory of Tawātur7. Orthodoxy: Inner Circles and the Big TentConclusion: Knowledge, Then and Now’Appendix A: Scholars who Labelled Hadiths as MutawātirAppendix B: List of Hadiths Labelled as MutawātirGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Suppose a large group of people, incapable of collusion, corroborate one another’s report of an event they all witnessed first hand. Should I take this corroborated reporting to establish with certainty the content of the reported event? With unusual patience and eloquent presentation, Laher delineates a thousand years of debate on the implications of this inquiry. This book is an accomplishment and will be a rewarding read.