The Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law

Introduction: The Concept of Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law; Adis Duderija

1. The Concept of S unna Based on the Analysis of Sira and Historical Works from the First Three Centuries of Islam; Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort

2. U?u¯l al-sunna: The Tenets of Islamic Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy According to the Traditionalists (Ahl al-?adi¯th); Ahmet Temel

3. The Concept of Sunna in Muctazilite Thought; Usman Ghani

4. The Sunnification of ?adith and the Hadithification of Sunna ; Aisha Y. Musa

5. The Concept of Sunna in the Ibadi Madhhab; Ersilia Francesca

6. The Concept of Sunna in Early and Medieval ?anafism ; Ali Altaf Mian

7. The Concept of Sunna in the Early Shafi?i Madhhab ; Gavin Picken

8. From Tradition to Institution: Sunna in the Early ?anbali School; Harith bin Ramli

9. Sunna in the ?ahiri Madhhab; Amr Osman

10. The Relative Status of ?adith and Sunna as Sources of Legal Authority vis-à-vis the Qur?an in Muslim Modernist Thought; Adis Duderij

Contributor Biographies