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Title Hadith : Muhammad's legacy in the medieval and modern world / Jonathan A.C. Brown.
Publication Info. Oxford : Oneworld, 2009.

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 Law Library  BP 136 .B76 2009    CHECKED IN
Description xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Foundations of Islam.
Note "A Oneworld book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-294) and index.
Contents The Prophet's words then and now: hadith and its terminology -- The transmission and collection of prophetic traditions -- The methods and history of Hadith criticism -- Prophetic traditions in Shiite Islam -- The function of prophetic traditions in Islamic law and legal theory -- The function of prophetic traditions in theology -- The function of prophetic traditions in Sufism -- The authenticity question: Western debates over the historical reliability of prophetic traditions -- Debates over prophetic traditions in the modern Muslim world -- Conclusion.
Subject Hadith -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.
Hadith -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Hadith -- History.
Islamic law -- History.
Related To Online version: Brown, Jonathan (Jonathan A.C.) Hadith. Oxford : Oneworld, 2009 (OCoLC)642399378
Standard No. 297145805
ISBN 9781851686636 (pbk.)
1851686630 (pbk.)
9781851686964 (hardback)
1851686967 (hardback)
OCLC # 320495676
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