Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium

by Joel Blecher

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad’s sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told. Joel Blecher takes up this charge, illuminating the rich social and intellectual history of hadith commentary at three critical moments and classical Andalusia, medieval Egypt, and modern India. Weaving together tales of public debates, high court rivalries, and colonial politics with analyses of ethnographic field notes and fine-grained arguments adorning the margins of manuscripts,  Said the Prophet of God  offers new avenues for the study of religion, history, anthropology, and law.

 

286 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2017

Reviews

[Emran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Greatly written. Explores a immense topic few other books have dared to cover. The last part (South Asia) of the book was nor here nor there and felt stretched focusing too much on one particular section of Sunni Muslims i.e. deobandis and totally omitting the Barelvis. Also of noted ommisions were the topic's relation to the Qur'an and Qur'an commentary, background to Bukari and.how it became so prominent as well as dealing with sects with different/independent hadith traditions to the standard Sunni narrative e.g. Shias. Another 100 pages could easily have been written to cover the above.

[Amr helmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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هنا كان مبدأ معرفتي بيه مع حديث المؤلف في هذا البودكاست اللطيف
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