As the first academic book series dedicated to the study of prophecy, transmission, and spirituality, "Theology and Tradition in Islam" addresses innovative and highly relevant research fields. The Series offers multiple and innovative perspectives while simultaneously integrating recent developments in academic research on Islam. It is particularly interested in ways to explore Islam, which take the reference to prophecy and tradition seriously and, at the same time, identify the believer's relationship to God as the defining feature of Muslim religiosity. The focus of the series lies on three core themes:
- Prophecy, is considered the founding event of the Muslim community and of its articulations of the contents of revelation as theology. Prophecy equally represents the origin of tradition in Islam as the process of preservation, interpretation, and implementation of prophetically proclaimed contents of revelation.
- Transmission, constitutes an activity aimed at safeguarding the prophetic proclamation of revelation and rendering it accessible to every generation. The transmission of Hadith, but also the Sira and other prophetological discourses play a particular role in this respect, but also more generally, in the formation of various Islamic sciences such as exegesis, normative hermeneutics, and ethics. Both theology and tradition are informed by transmission, and, at the same time, they affect the modalities and content of transmission.
- The third focus is on forms of Spirituality, i.e. articulated experiences of prophetically proclaimed and historically transmitted contents of revelation. Each generation of Muslims reappropriates the prophetic-revelatory event as an experience that reestablishes the communicative relationship between the human and the divine, articulating in this way models of piety and ideals of human perfection that become themselves part of tradition and enrich or revise theological thinking.
The three core themes are intrinsically and historically connected and form a dynamic framework that constitutes the particular profile of the Series.