Islam
Major Topics of the Hadith
By , University of Arizona (February 2008)
Sections: Islam
Subjects: Law, Islam, Religion.
People: Muhammad.
Places: Western Asia, Asia, Central Asia.
Periods: 1 - 999 CE, 500 - 999 CE.
Abstract
Hadiths – reports of what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, or tacitly approved – have exerted an extraordinary influence on Muslims for over a millennium. Despite the significance of this literature, its contents remain largely inaccessible to non-Arabic readers, in part due to many Western scholars’ preoccupation with the question of its authenticity rather than the function of hadith in Islamic thought. This article provides an overview of the contents of the canonical Sunni hadith collections along with a sample of ethical hadiths in idiomatic English.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00058.x
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