Modern Hadith Studies

[…] a welcome contribution to the field, containing excellent, detailed, and thorough research. – Stephen Burge, The Institute of Ismaili Studies * Journal of Qur’anic Studies 24.1 (2022) *
[…] Modern Hadith Studies: Continued Debates and New Approaches, [..] is the first systematic, inclusive multi-authored study of hadith theory and method that focuses on both the pre-modern and modern periods and both Islamic and Western scholarship of hadith. – Mourad Laabdi * Religion *
The study of Hadiths only grows in importance. Hadiths are both a crucial (and highly contested) source for understanding Islam’s origins and also the idiom in which Muslim scholars have expressed their commitment to their faith and constructed their relationships to each other. The volume brings together an excellent sampling of the state of the field, with senior scholars and promising young academics alike bringing the latest theories and methodologies to bear on questions of historical authenticity of Hadiths and their crucial role in the development of Islamic thought and culture. – Jonathan AC Brown, Georgetown University

Dr Belal Abu-Alabbas, B.A. (Al-Azhar), DPhil (Oxford), is a historian of Islamic intellectual and legal thought (7th13th centuries). His research focuses on the hadith corpus, Islamic law and theology in the formative and classical periods. Dr Abu-Alabbas has previously held lectureships at the University of Nottingham and the University of Bristol, and a British Academy International Fellowship at the University of Exeter. He currently holds lectureships at Cambridge Muslim College and Al-Azhar University and is a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham. Among his publications are Belal AbuAlabbas, Christopher Melchert, and MichaelDann, eds., Modern Hadith Studies: Continuing Debates and New Approaches (Edinburgh: EdinburghUniversityPress, 2020) and BelalAbuAlabbas, “The Principles of Hadith Criticism in the Writings of alShfi and Muslim”, Islamic Law and Society 24:4 (2017): 31135. Christopher Melchert is a Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E (Brill, 1997), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Makers of the Muslim World) (Oneworld, 2006) and Hadith, Piety, and Law: Selected Studies (Lockwood, 2015) Michael Dann is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Illinois. He has published a chapter in Songs and Sons: Women, Slavery and Social Mobility in the Medieval Islamic World, edited by Matthew Gordon and Kathryn Hain (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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