
Rethinking Hadith Methodolog
Kopernik (Publisher)
Published on 10. December 2019
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-605-69195-8-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the early centuries of Islam, Muslim scholars developed countless scientific disciplines in attempting to classify, investigate, and utilise the hadiths and the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad. As none of these sciences evolved into a fully-fledged hadith science, scholars began to implement the methodology of fiqh in examining the hadiths. After Imam al Shafii in the ninth century, hadiths were almost exclusively confined to the realm of legal studies. This new legalistic and literalist approach to the hadith created serious problems, primarily for two reasons, the Prophet did not intend that each of his words and utterances should form the basis of a legal system, and unlike the Quran, the Prophets statements were transmitted over generations and not always verbatim and therefore recorded hadiths could not be treated as immutable legal documents. The aim of this book is to demonstrate the necessity of creating a new hadith science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Turkey
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
598 gr
ISBN-13
978-605-69195-8-9 (9786056919589)
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