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The Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law

The Search for a Sound Hadith

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  • © 2015

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  1. Adis Duderija
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law (ITL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Concept of sunna and Its Status in Islamic Law

    • Adis Duderija
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Concept of sunna Based on the Analysis of sīra and Historical Works from the First Three Centuries of Islam

    • Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort
    Pages 13-38

  4. Uṣūl al-sunna: The Tenets of Islamic Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy According to the Traditionalists (Ahl al-ḥadīth)

    • Ahmet Temel
    Pages 39-57

  5. The Concept of sunna in Mu‘tazilite Thought

    • Usman Ghani
    Pages 59-73

  6. The Sunnification of Ḥadīth and the Hadithification of sunna

    • Aisha Y. Musa
    Pages 75-95

  7. The Concept of sunna in the Ibāḍī School

    • Ersilia Francesca
    Pages 97-115

  8. The Concept of sunna in Early and Medieval Ḥanafism

    • Ali Altaf Mian
    Pages 117-138

  9. The Concept of sunna in the Early Shāfi‘ī Madhhab

    • Gavin N. Picken
    Pages 139-162

  10. From Tradition to Institution: sunna in the Early Ḥanbalī School

    • Harith bin Ramli
    Pages 163-194

  11. Sunna in the Ẓāhirī Madhhab

    • Amr Osman
    Pages 195-209

  12. The Relative Status of Ḥadīth and sunna as Sources of Legal Authority vis-à-vis the Qur’ān in Muslim Modernist Thought

    • Adis Duderija
    Pages 211-231

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-256
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This volume provides an overview of the nature and scope of the concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions. The main focus is on shedding more light on the context in which the term Sunna in the major works of Islamic law and legal theory across all of the major madhahib was employed during the first six centuries Hijri.

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“A new academic work on Sunna is welcome, in order to update researchers and readers on current debates on Sunna and Hadith. … the book offers access to a wide range of conceptions of Sunna among legal theorists, jurists, theologians and traditionalists. … this book has its place in Sunna studies, and should be useful for teachers, students and researchers in Islamic studies.” (Abdessamad Belhaj, Islam and Christian–Muslim relations, Vol. 28 (3), 2017)

About the authors

Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Ahmet Temel, Istanbul University, Turkey Usman Ghani, University of Wales Trinity St. David, UK Aisha Y. Musa, Colgate University, USA Ersilia Francesca, University of Naples, Italy Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University, USA Gavin Picken, American University of Sharjah, UAE Harith bin Ramli, Cambridge Muslim College, UK Amr Osman, Qatar University

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