Gebundenes Buch

Hadith Commentary

Continuity and Change

Herausgeber: Blecher, Joel; Brinkmann, Stefanie

Beschreibung

The first collection of scholarly essays on the key texts and critical themes of hadith commentary a central site of Islamic intellectual life for more than a millennium across diverse periods, regions, and sects.

Autor

Joel Blecher is Associate Professor of History at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, the author of Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary Across a Millennium (University of California Press, 2018), and co-translator of Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī's Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics, 2023). His other writings have appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Law & Society, Oriens, and several edited volumes. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Library of Congress, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Stefanie Brinkmann is Research Fellow at the "Bibliotheca Arabica Project" at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. Trained in Arabic, Persian, and Roman Studies, she had acting professorships at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, and was member and principal investigator of a number of manuscript projects. She has published in the fields of manuscript studies, especially on hadith manuscripts, material culture in hadith, and classical Arabic poetry.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781474461047
• ISBN-10: 1474461042
• Artikelnr.: 66269385