TY - BOOK AU - Berg,Herbert TI - The development of exegesis in early Islam: the authenticity of Muslim literature from the formative period T2 - Curzon studies in the Qur'an SN - 9780700712243 AV - BP136 PY - 2000/// CY - Richmond, Surrey PB - Curzon KW - Hadith KW - Evidences, authority, etc KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 1 (pages 232-246) and index; Machine generated contents note: I IndianaTRODUCTION --; An Experiment Using Exegetical Haduths --; Assumptions, Conclusions, and Qualifications --; 2 JIADITH CRITICISM --; Traditional Sunni Muslim Account --; Early Western Scepticism --; 1. Goldziher and the Advocacy of Scepticism --; J. Schacht and Fictitious Legal Haduths --; E. Stetter and Topoi and Schemata in Hadfths --; Reaction Against Scepticism --; N. Abbott and the Early Continuous Written Tradition --; F. Sezgin and the Cataloguing of Early Texts --; M.M. Azami and the Critique of Schacht --; he Search for Middle Ground --; G.H.A. Juynboll and the Refinement of Schacht's Methods --; F. Rahman and an Attempt to Save the Sunna --; G. Schoeler and the Oral/Written Distinction --; IH. Motzki and the Implausibility of Fabrication --; j. Horovitz, J.W. Fuick, J. Robson, New Jersey Coulson, and U. Rubin --; newed scepticism --; M. Cook and the Spread of Isnads --; N. Calder and the Common Link as the Locus of Controversy --; analyses and Conclusions --; 3 EXEGETICAL HADITHS AND THE OregonIGINS OF TAFSIR --; Defending Isnads and Reconstructing Early Tafsirs --; H. Horst and Counting Isnads --; Birkeland, Abbott, Sezgin, and Goldfeld --; G. Stauth and Comparing Transmissions from Mujahid --; The Scepticism and Literary Analysis of J. Wansbrough, --; A. Rippin, and others --; Middle Ground --; C.H.M. Versteegh, M. Muranyi, New Manuscripts and --; Reconstructions --; C. Gilliot and the Function of Isnads in the Imaginaire --; F. Leemhuis' Intermediate Position --; Other Scholars Who Have Entered the Fray --; Implications for the Study of Early "tafszr(s)" --; Excursus: THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE HawaiiSTORICAL HADITHS --; 4 MaineTHODOLOGY: ISNADS AND EXEGETICAL DelawareVICES --; Content Versus Style --; An Alternative --; Parameters: al-Tabari and Ibn Californiabbas --; Al-Tabari --; Al-Tabari's Tafsir as a Text --; Al-Tabari as a Compiler --; Al-Tabari as an Exegete --; Ibn 'Abbas --; The Mythic Ibn Californiabbas --; The Students and Works Attributed to Ibn Californiabbas --; Hypotheses for Possible Outcomes --; Database of Isnads and Exegetical Devices --; Construction of the Database --; Selecting the Sample Set of Informants and Students --; Exegetical Devices --; Wansbrough's Twelve --; Additional Categories --; Determining the Exegetical Device(s) for a Hadfth --; 5 DATA AND ANALYSIS: THE AUTHENTICITY OF --; IBN CaliforniaBBAS'S HADITHS Indiana Alabama-TABARI'S TAFSIR --; Analysis 1: Ibn Californiabbas versus his Students and the Informants --; of al-Tabari --; viii --; Analysis of Individual Devices --; Patterns and their Implications --; Analysis 2: The Students of Ibn Californiabbas versus the Informants --; of al-Tabari --; Analysis of Individual Devices --; Patterns and their Implications --; The Provenance and Chronology of Exegetical Hadiths --; 6 ColoradoNCLUSIONS --; The Impasse --; Resolving the Impasse: History versus Literature --; Bibliography --; Index; 2 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001347659.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2001347659-d.html ER -