عنوان

Carrying on the tradition: An intellectual and social history of post-canonical hadith transmission

شماره

TL47836

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Carrying on the tradition: An intellectual and social history of post-canonical hadith transmission

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Garrett Davidson

نام ساير پديدآوران

El Shamsy, Ahmed

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Chicago

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

نام خاص و کميت اثر

336

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Brown, Jonathan; Donner, Fred

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-03588-9

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Chicago

امتياز متن

2014

متن يادداشت

Based on a variety of largely unutilized printed, as well as documentary and manuscript sources collected from archives in the Middle East, North Africa, India and Europe, this dissertation is a longue durée study of the evolution of the conception and function of hadith transmission following the establishment of the hadith canon in the tenth century. It documents how the emergence of the hadith canon plunged Muslim religious scholars in a deep controversy. The establishment of a stable written hadith canon negated the need for the continued oral transmission of hadith. The institution of hadith transmission in the oral/aural mode was, however, integral to the community of hadith scholars' culture and self-image. Hadith scholars saw themselves as the heirs and carriers of a continuous tradition stretching back to the Prophet and the transmission of hadith and the associated chain of transmission was symbolic of this status. On the other hand, scholars, jurists in particular, wanted to be able to harness the authority of the hadith canon as evidence directly without citing a personal chain of transmission. The debates over the value and need of continued oral transmission that erupted in this context are traced revealing how hadith scholars developed an ideology to sustain and give meaning to the chain of transmission in spite of its obsolescence. This ideology asserted that, among other things, the chain of transmission was an essential and unique trait of the Muslim community linking successive generations of Muslims to the Prophet and distinguishing them from the Jews and Christians that preceded them and therefore must be preserved for its own sake, regardless of the fact that the establishment of a stable written hadith corpus had made the original function of the chain of transmission obsolete. It is demonstrated that hadith scholars successfully mobilized this ideology to sustain hadith transmission as an act of piety and further to preserve the chain of transmission as a species of social capital, which scholars could use to establish their position and relative merit within scholarly networks and further which they used in the reproduction of their group identity. This profound shift in the conception of the chain of transmission resulted in a radical reworking of the theory and protocols that had originally been developed to govern the transmission of hadith, as well as the culture and norms of transmission. This new conception of hadith transmission resulted in the emergence of a number of popular and enduring genres of hadith literature, which scholars used as vehicles to express their connection to the Prophet and previous generations of masters through the presentations of chains of transmission. The development of these genres is traced and for the first time their functions are situated in this context of an evolving conception of hadith transmission. The dissertation concludes with an examination of the fate of hadith transmission in the twentieth century following the rise of the various Islamic reform movements and the radical changes to the social and educational institutions of the majority of dār al-Islām.

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Hadith;Islam;Orality;Transmission of knowledge;Ulama

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Davidson, Garrett

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

El Shamsy, Ahmed

تقسيم فرعي

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

The University of Chicago

شماره بازیابی

1560685367; 3628067

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y