{"product_id":"muslim-al-naysaburi-d-261-875-the-sceptical-traditionalist-9789004524194","title":"Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261\/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261\/875). The skeptical traditionalist, Pavel Pavlovitch studies the life and works of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī, the author of the famous collection of traditions (ḥadīth) al-Musnad al-ṣaḥīḥ (The Sound Collection), which Sunni Muslims rank as the third most authoritative source of legal and theological norms after the Qurʾān and Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ.     Based on multiple biographical sources and Muslim’s extant works, Pavel Pavlovitch studies hitherto unexplored aspects of Muslim’s biography, elaborates on his founding contribution to the science of ḥadīth criticism, and examines the transmission history of Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ in unprecedented detail. The monograph includes the first systematic study of Muslim’s traditionalist theology, which played a defining role in the formation of Sunni identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMotives and Acknowledgments  List of Graphs, Diagrams, and Tables  Conventions    Introduction    1 The State of the Field and Method   1 Sources and Studies   2 Method   3 Technical Terminology   4 Determining the ḥadīth Transmitters’ Dates of Birth and Death   5 Determining the Distance between Centers of Learning    2 Iraq and Northeastern Iran in Muslim’s Lifetime: Politics and Intellectual Currents   1 The City of Naysābūr   2 The Miḥna   3 Political Factions   4 Theological Issues and Intellectual Trends    3 Life and Worldview   1 Shaykhs and Centers of Learning   2 Doctrinal Affiliation   3 Piety   4 Political Views    4 Muslim’s Theology   1 Muslim, al-Bukhārī, and the Perception of the Quran   2 Muslim and the Definition of Faith   3 Muslim and the Issue of qadar: Synergy between Divine Predestination and Human Agency   4 Conclusion    5 Muslim’s ḥadīth Criticism   1 The Delicate Art of Transmitter Evaluation   2 Muslim’s Criteria of ḥadīth Criticism   3 Muslim’s Vocabulary of ḥadīth Transmission and Evaluation   4 Conclusion    6 Muslim’s Works   1 Extant Works   2 Works That Are Preserved as Secondary Citations   3 Lost Works    7 The Ṣaḥīḥ   1 The Collection’s Title and Purpose of Composition: Muṣannaf, Musnad, and Ṣaḥīḥ   2 When Did Muslim Compose the Ṣaḥīḥ, and Was It Finished?   3 Is Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ an Appendix to al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ?   4 Contents and Structure of the Ṣaḥīḥ   5 Reception and Canonization    8 The Transmission of the Ṣaḥīḥ   1 The Transmission through Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Sufyān al-Naysābūrī   2 The Transmission through Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Qalānisī   3 The Transmission through Makkī b. ʿAbdān   4 The Transmission through Aḥmad b. al-Sharqī   5 Other Transmissions of the Ṣaḥīḥ   6 Manuscripts and Editions    Conclusion    Appendix 1: Isnād Diagrams  Appendix 2: Muslim’s Informants according to al-Mizzī  Appendix 3: Muslim’s Major Shaykhs according to Kitāb al-Zahra, Compared with an Electronic Count in al-Maktaba al-Shāmila and an Alternative Count by Dār al-Taʾṣīl  Appendix 4: Transmitters on Muslim’s Authority  Appendix 5: First\/Seventh and Second\/Eighth-Century Traditionists Who Made Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to Muslim’s Introduction  Appendix 6: Reasons for Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to the Introduction to Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ  Appendix 7: Muslim’s Kitāb al-Qadar Compared with al-Bukhārī’s Kitāb al-Qadar  Appendix 8: The Number of Books in the Ṣaḥīḥ according to Ibn Manjuwayh, ʿAbd al-Bāqī (= Wensinck, al-Nawawī), and Dār al-Taʾṣīl (= al-Mizzī)  Appendix 9: The Known Sections in Ibn ʿAsākir’s Division of the Ṣaḥīḥ  Appendix 10: The Shaykhs of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Nasawī  Bibliography  Index of Personal Names  Index of Dynasties and Parties  Index of Geographical Names  Index of Titles of Pre-Modern books  Index of Topics and Terms  Quranic References","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210852720983,"sku":"9789004524194","price":143.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/muslim-al-naysaburi-d-261-875-the-sceptical-traditionalist-9789004524194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}