Islam at 250

Petra M. Sijpesteijn (PhD, Princeton, 2004) is Professor of Arabic at Leiden University, leading the ERC project “Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire” and author of Shaping a Muslim State: The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official (OUP, 2013).Camilla Adang, (PhD, Nijmegen, 1993) is Professor of Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published widely on the works of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba and encounters between Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages and the Ottoman period.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsNotes on Transliteration, Names and DatesIslamic Studies as a Legacy: Remembering Gautier JuynbollLéon BuskensBibliography of G.H.A. JuynbollIntroductionPetra M. Sijpesteijn and Camilla AdangPart 1 Scholary Traditions and Networks1 Ibn Abī Isḥāq (d. ca. 125/743) and His Scholarly NetworkMonique Bernards2 The Maghreb and Al-Andalus at 250 H: Rulers, Scholars and Their WorksMaribel Fierro3 Muslim Tradition: Theory vs Usage. The Definition (ḥadd) and the Usage (istiʿmāl) in Sunnī Hadith Science in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries CEAsma Hilali4 The Theory and Practice of Hadith Criticism in the Mid-ninth CenturyChristopher Melchert5 Juynboll, al-Zuhrī, and al-Kitāb: About the Historicity of Transmission below the Common Link LevelPavel PavlovitchPart 2 Creating the Canon6 Muck and Brass: The Context for Analysing Early Imāmī Legal DoctrineRobert Gleave7 When Did Ibn Isḥāq Compose His maghāzī?Michael Lecker8 Ibn Ḥanbal’s Reconstruction of the Ṣaḥīfa of ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb: A Preliminary AssessmentScott LucasPart 3 Contexts of Hadith Creation and Transmission9 The Curious Case of Early Muslim Hair DyeingAhmed El Shamsy10 “Will you not Teach ruqyat al-namla to This (Woman) …?”: Notes on a Hadith’s Historical Uncertainties and Its Role in Translations of MuḥammadAisha Geissinger11 Cry me a Jāhiliyya: Muslim Reconstructions of Pre-Islamic Arabian Culture—A Case StudyPeter WebbPart 4 Terminology and Definitions12 Hadith as Adab: Ibn Qutayba’s Chapter on Hadith in His ʿUyūn al-AkhbārGeert Jan van Gelder13 Étymologie et monoprophétisme: Réflexions sur les ḥanīfs du Coran entre mythe et histoireClaude Gilliot14 Gautier H.A. Juynboll, ḥaḍīth and ḥadīth-related Technical Terminology: khabar in Western Studies and Early Islamic LiteratureRoberto TottoliIndex