Jonathan A.C. Brown is Professor and Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Slavery & Islam, Misquoting Muhammad and Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World, all of which are published by Oneworld. He lives in Virginia.
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Conventions, Abbreviations, and Transliteration
1 The Prophet’s Words Then and Now: Hadith and Its Terminology
2 The Transmission and Collection of Prophetic Traditions
3 The Methods and History of Hadith Criticism
4 Prophetic Traditions in Shiite Islam
5 The Function of Prophetic Traditions in Islamic Law and Legal Theory
6 The Function of Prophetic Traditions in Theology
7 The Function of Prophetic Traditions in Sufism
8 The Function of Prophetic Traditions in Politics
9 The Authenticity Question: Western Debates over the Historical
Reliability of Prophetic Traditions
10 Debates over Prophetic Traditions in the Modern Muslim World
11 Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
