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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Notes on Transliteration and Other Conventions
- Introduction The Concept of sunna and Its Status in Islamic Law
- 1 The Concept of sunna Based on the Analysis of sīra and Historical Works from the First Three Centuries of Islam
- 2 Uṣūl al-sunna: The Tenets of Islamic Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy According to the Traditionalists (Ahl al-ḥadīth)
- 3 The Concept of sunna in Muʿtazilite Thought
- 4 The Sunnification of Ḥadīth and the Hadithification of sunna
- 5 The Concept of sunna in the Ibāḍī School
- 6 The Concept of sunna in Early and Medieval Ḥanafism
- 7 The Concept of sunna in the Early Shāfiʿī Madhhab
- 8 From Tradition to Institution: sunna in the Early Ḥanbalī School
- 9 Sunna in the Ẓāhirī Madhhab
- 10 The Relative Status of Ḥadīth and sunna as Sources of Legal Authority vis-a-vis the Qurʾān in Muslim Modernist Thought
- Bibliography
- Contributor Biographies
- Index