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The Muslim World Book Review, Review , 31:3, 2011
Islamic Thought and Sources
ANALYSINg MUSLIM TRAdITIoNS: STUdIES IN LEgAL, EXEgETIANALYSINg CAL ANd MAgH AZI HAd ITH. By Harald Motzki, Nicolet Boekho Van V an Der Voort and Sean W. Anthony. Anthony. Leiden: E.J. Brill, Br ill, 2010. Pp. 477. ISBN 9780004180499 .
ad i i th th generally ell under the studies o the Classical orientalist studies o H ad origins o Islam. Hence, the primary ocus o these studies was to prove the ad i ith t h. With the absence o any sources contemporary origins and provenance o H H ad ad i i th th was to the Prophet, Western scholars’ attitude towards the corpus o H ad ad i i th th, every had i ith t h was sceptical. For them, in contrast to the Muslim view o H H ad deemed to be a orgery until it can be proven otherwise. Scholars discarded ad i ith t h verication as being too ormalistic and based the Muslim approach to H ad only on external criteria (isnad ). ). Hence, they devised their own methodologies ad i i th th. Harald Motzki suggeste or veriying the authenticity and origins o H ad that it is not prudent to wholly do away with the chain chai n o narrators as a careul c areul t h. Rather study o these chains can c an tell us a lot about the provenance provenanc e o a had i ith the chain o narrators should be studied in tandem with the text o a had which Motzki calls the isnad -cum-cum-matn approach. The book under review is a collection o articles written wr itten by Motzki over the last three decades. The last two articles in the book were written by the other two co-authors. In its preace, Motzki discusses the contents o the book and the processes through which the articles went through beore being made available in English. This book has many merits; rstly rstly,, all o Motzki’s articles ound in this book are here presented in English or the rst time. Secondly, all the articles in the collection employ the isnad -cum-cum-matn approach rst ormulated by Motzki in his study o the Musannaf o [ Abd Abd al-Razza q al-San[a (d. 211 /826). Additionally, Additionally, most o the articlesSign areup responses to other scholars to vote on this title Useful o aNot d i i th tuseful h: chapters 1 and who were/are also engaged in the study o the origins H ad 6, Schacht; chapter 2, Juynboll; chapters 3 and 4, Irene Schnider and chapter 5, Herbert Berg.
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done the readers a great service by providing the Arabic script whilst comparing dierent versions o a had it h, as it is a daunting task to ollow slight orthographical changes whilst reading the transliteration. The author o chapter 7 has a wonderul introduction to historiography in general in the introduction to his article. For this reviewer, the most original and interesting contribution in this book is chapter 2. Over the years, G.H.A. Juynboll had developed, expanded and polished Schacht’s common-link theory to the extent that, or him, it has become the only worthy methodology ( U sul al- H ad i th) or studying H ad i th. Juynboll used this methodology to study the six canonical H ad it h collections. However elaborate the theory is, in this chapter, Motzki proves that it nevertheless suers rom many methodological and epistemological faws. This is the most rigorous critique o Juynboll’s common-link theory and a must read or the serious students o H ad it h. Motzki shows that in order or the common-link theory to work, every strand o the chain o narrators or a particular had i th text needs to be scrutinised. Without doing so, the common-link theory will not yield accurate results. He proves that Juynboll’s over reliance on the chains o narrators ound in al-Mizz i’s (d. 742 /1341) Tuh fat al-Ashr a f (which is only restricted to collecting the chains o narrators ound You're Reading Preview in the six canonical collections and a ew aother books) is what led Juynboll to making erroneous conclusions such denying Unlock full accessas with a free trial.the historical existence o Na [, the client o Ibn [Umar (d. 117 /735). Withorientalists Free Trial try to make an objective In the absence o any earlyDownload writings, the and honest attempt to understand what really happened in the early period o Islam. However, the problem that Muslims have with the orientalists in general is that some o them hold on to their methods religiously even when their approach has been proven to be wrong. Motzki has obviated all o Juynboll’s arguments and yet Juynboll makes no attempt to modiy his theory as can be seen in his latest work The Encyclopaedia of Canonical Collections. Motzki’s works are highly valued amongst Muslim circles as it comes close Sign up to vote on thisor titlerejecting to the ndings o their own scholarship. However, accepting Not useful Useful Motzki’s thesis will depend on how much reliance one is willing to place on the chain o narrators. At a cost o £ 149.15 the book under review is not an average coee table book nor is it an easy read. However, i one can patiently
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