Carrying on the tradition : a social and intellectual history of Hadith transmission across a thousand years

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgements
‎Figures
‎Introduction
‎Chapter 1. Reimagining Hadith Transmission in the Shadow of the Canon
	‎1. The Ideology of Hadith Transmission
	‎2. The Social Logic of Hadith Transmission
	‎3. “Nothing Gold Can Stay:” The End of the ‘Golden Age’ of Hadith Transmission
	‎4. Elevation and Decline
	‎5. Degrees of Separation
	‎6. Supernatural Elevation
	‎7. Conclusion
‎Chapter 2. The Post-canonical Evolution of Oral Hadith Transmission
	‎1. The Audition Notice
	‎2. The Evolving Function of Oral Transmission
	‎3. The Age Structure of Oral Transmission
	‎4. Hadith Speed Reading
	‎5. Further Liberalization of Oral Transmission
	‎6. The Ritualization of Oral Hadith Transmission
	‎7. Locations of Oral Hadith Transmission
	‎8. Musalsalāt: Ritual and Mimesis in Oral Hadith Transmission
	‎9. A Shifting Culture of Oral Hadith Transmission
‎Chapter 3. Non-oral Transmission in the Oral Idiom: The Development and Function of the Ijāza
	‎1. Confusion in the Secondary Literature
	‎2. The Origins and Early Development of the Ijāza
	‎3. The Earliest Attestations of the Ijāza
	‎4. The Tide Begins to Turn: The Increasing Acceptance of the Ijāza in the Fourth/Tenth Century
	‎5. Al-Khaṭīb and the Evolution of the Ijāza
	‎6. The ijāza as a Means of Preserving the Chain of Transmission
	‎7. Permission for the Unspecified
	‎8. Who Can Receive an Ijāza?
	‎9. The Ijāza and the Short Chain of Transmission
	‎10. The Ijāza and the Unborn
	‎11. Ijāzas for All: The Development and Function of the al-Ijāza al-ʿĀmma
	‎12. Conclusion
‎Chapter 4. The High and the Low: Men, Women and the Social Aspect of Elevation
	‎1. The Laity and the Randomness of Longevity and Elevation
	‎2. A Medieval Hadith Rock Star: The Extraordinary Case of Abū ʿAbbās al-Ḥajjār
	‎3. The Elevated Chain of Transmission and Women Hadith Transmitters
	‎4. The Exceptional Case of Karīma al-Marwaziyya
	‎5. The Question of Learning among Women Hadith Transmitters
	‎6. The Case of Women Hadith Transmitters in al-Sakhāwī’s al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ
	‎7. Longevity, Elevation and Women Transmitters
	‎8. The View of Women’s Hadith Transmission from the Documentary Evidence
	‎9. Women and Hadith Transmission beyond the Tenth/Sixteenth Century
	‎10. Conclusion
‎Chapter 5. Brevity, Breadth and Elevation: The Forty-Hadith and ʿAwālī Genres
	‎1. The Prophet’s Promise: The Forty-Hadith Genres and Elevation
	‎2. The Forty-Hadith Genre as a Tool for the Cultivation of Elevation
	‎3. The Forty-Hadith Genre and Elevation
	‎4. Forty Hadith, Forty Shaykhs, Forty Towns
	‎5. The ʿAwālī Genre: Compiling and Presenting Elevation
	‎6. Thulāthiyyāt al-Bukhārī: al-Bukhārī’s Threes
	‎7. Degrees of Separation: Link-Themed ʿAwālī Collections
	‎8. Categories of Elevation: Muwāfaqāt, Abdāl, Musāwāt, and Muṣāfaḥāt
	‎9. Conclusion
‎Chapter 6. Men of Books and Books of Men: The Muʿjam/Mashyakha and Fihrist/Thabat Catalog Genres
	‎1. The Mashyakha and Muʿjam al-Shuyūkh Genre
	‎2. The Muʿjam/Mashyakha Genre as a Vehicle for Cultivating Elevated Hadith
	‎3. The Reception of Mashyakha and Muʿjam al-Shuyūkh Works
	‎4. The Fihrist/Thabat Genres
	‎5. The Thabat: The Development of the Catalog Genre in the Central and Eastern Islamic Lands
	‎6. Conclusion
‎Chapter 7. Hadith Transmission in an Age of Transformation and Reform
	‎1. The Last of the Mohicans: Al-Kattānī and the State of Hadith Transmission in the Early-Twentieth Century
	‎2. Hadith Transmission and Reform
	‎3. Reformers and the Irrationality of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission
	‎4. Transmitting Hadith in the Shifting Political and Cultural Terrain of the Twentieth Century
	‎5. Hadith Transmission as a Feature of Late Sunni Traditionalism
‎Bibliography
‎Index