Hadith

Contents: General editor\'s preface
 Introduction
 Origin, Transmission and Establishment of the Hadith: The role of traditionalism in Islam, J. Fueck
 A revaluation of Islamic traditions, Joseph Schacht
 Notes towards a fresh perspective on the Islamic Sunna, John Burton
 Disputes over the status of Hadith in Islam, Ignaz Goldziher
 Oral Torah and Hadith: transmission, prohibition of writing, redaction, Gregor Schoeler
 Al-Usul al-arba\'umi\'a, Etan Kohlberg. Origin and Reliability of the Isnad: The antiquity and origin of the Isnad, Josef Horovitz
 Further on the origin of the Isnad, Josef Horovitz
 The Isnad in Muslim tradition, James Robson
 Some Isnad-analytical methods illustrated on the basis of several women-demeaning sayings from Hadith literature, G.H.A. Juynboll
 Eschatology and the dating of traditions, Michael Cook. Methods of analysing and dating Hadiths: A tradition of Manichean tendency (\'the she-eater of grass\'), J.H. Kramers
 The will of Sa\'d b. a. Waqqas: the growth of a tradition, R. Marston Speight
 Pare your nails: a study of an early tradition, M.J. Kister
 The Musannaf of \'Abd al-Razzaq al-San\'ani as a source of authentic Ahadith of the first century A.H., Harald Motzki
 Common features of Muslim and Western Hadith criticism: Ibn al-Jawzi\'s categories of Hadith forgers, Albrecht Noth
 The martyrdom of passionate lovers: holy war as a sacred wedding, Maher Jarrar
 Index.