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Title: Reconstructing the Variant Generation Process of Hadith
Condition: New
Subtitle: Based on the Quantitative and the Isnād-Cum-Matn Analysis
Author: Hiroyuki Yanagihashi
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1800502176
EAN: 9781800502178
ISBN: 9781800502178
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 15/04/2023
Description: This monograph is dedicated to the analysis of hadiths for the purpose of reconstructing the process of variant generation. Medieval authors seemingly did not devote many pages to the question of textual variation, certainly because they had little interest in the question of how individual hadiths were historically formed. Several contemporary researchers have shown interest in the issue of textual variation in hadith. They agree that many hadiths were reformulated since their initial circulation and aim to trace the process of reformulation with regard to individual hadiths. Methodologically, the most successful is the isnad-cum-matn analysis proposed by Harald Motzki and Gregor Schoeler. This method consists of determining whether a correlation lies between the transmission process of a hadith, obtained from the analysis of isnads (chains of transmission), and its textual development, obtained from the examination of its matn (text), sometimes complemented by biographical sources. However, despite the existence of many excellent studies based on this method, presenting the general pattern of variant generation with accuracy is far from being achieved. This study, which contains four chapters, seeks to precisely reconstruct the process of variant generation by analyzing isnads from various quantitative perspectives, in addition to using the isnad-cum- matn analysis.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 3756g
Book Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Type: Religious Groups Studies
Release Year: 2023

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