Introduction / Christopher Melchert -- 1. Kunnā nakrahu al-kitāb : scripture, transmission of knowledge, and politics in the second century AH (719-816 CE) / Pavel Pavlovich -- 2. The history of the Adhān : a view from the Hadith literature / Maroussia Bednarkiewicz -- 3. Ibn al-Mubārak, traditionist / Christopher Melchert -- 4. Early "traditionist Sufis" : a network analysis / Jeremy Farrell -- 5. The common link and its relation to Hadith terminology / Ali Aghaei -- 6. Hadith criticism between traditionists and jurisprudents / Mutaz al-Khatib -- 7. Hadith criticism in the Levant in the twentieth century : from ẓāhir al-isnād to ʻilal al-ḥadīth / Ahmad Snober -- 8. The reception and representation of Western Hadith studies in Turkish academe / Fatma Kızıl-- 9. Can different questions yield the same answers? Islamic and Western scholarship on Shiʻi narrators in the Sunni tradition / Michael Dann.
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This book examines the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions from 10 scholars of Hadith, it addresses the subject from a variety of methodological vantage points and historical premises.