Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-53166-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature. A number of studies appear for the first time in English. The topics dealt with relate to the Islamic prostration in ritual prayer, Islamic traditions which are discussed through the analysis of hadith literature and reports and narratives related to the literary genre of the qisas al-anbiya' (Stories of the Prophets). The readers of this collection of essays are scholars and students of early Islam, of the development hadith literature and of the narratives on Islamic prophets; all together the studies bring to light the dynamics between the formation of early traditions and their role in the origin and developments of Islamic literature.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tottoli, Roberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. "Muslim attitudes towards prostration (sujud). I. Arabs and prostration at the beginning of Islam and in the Qur’an” / 2. "Muslim attitudes towards prostration (sujud). II. The prominence and meaning of prostration in Muslim literature" / 3. "Traditions and controversies concerning the sujud al-Qur’an in hadith literature" / 4. "The thanksgiving prostration (sujud al-shukr) in Muslim traditions" / 5. "Muslim Traditions against Secular Prostration and Inter-religious Polemic" / 6. "Hadith and Muslim dietary norms: some traditions on the goodness of meat and the permissibility of horse meat" / 7. "‘Two rivers are believers and two are disbelievers’. A sacred river geography in a saying attributed to Muhammad?" / 8. "Islamic traditions regarding the use of fabrics and clothing" / 9. "Inna Allah yubghidu al-baligh min al-nas: a study of an early hadith" / 10. “Methods and contexts in the use of Hadiths in classical tafsir literature: the exegesis of Q 21:85 and 17:1” / 11. "The staff of Moses transforming into a snake in Islamic exegesis and traditions" / 12. "Modern Islamic exegesis and the rejection of the Isra'iliyyat: the legends about the staff of Moses transforming into a snake" / 13. "At cock-crow: some Muslim traditions about the rooster" / 14. "‘I just came to visit some relatives’. The wolf in Joseph’s story" / 15. "Origin and use of the term isra’iliyyat in Muslim literature", in Arabica, 46 (1999), 193-210

Über Autor(innen)

Roberto Tottoli is Professor of Islamic studies at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy. His fields of interest are early Islamic traditions and literature and the Qur’an in European history.