Doctrinal Instruction in Early Islam

The Book of the Explanation of the Sunna by Ghulām Khalīl (d. 275/888)

Maher Jarrar, Sebastian Günther (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

396 Seiten

2020 | Approx. 380 pp.
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42904-8 (ISBN)

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Ghulām Khalīl’s (d. 275/888) creed is a statement of faith and a guide for determining belief and unbelief. It, moreover, aims to regulate social behaviour. The present study offers a fascinating examination of this important creed, along with a critical edition of the Arabic text and a new English translation.

This pioneering study casts important new light on key issues in the development of dogmatic instruction in early Islam, as it examines the creed written by the Basran and Baghdadi Sunni preacher Ghulām Khalīl (d. 275/888). It includes a critical edition of the Arabic text and an English translation of what appears to be one of the earliest statements of religious beliefs in Islam. In particular, this book argues convincingly that this influential text was authored by the ninth century Ghulām Khalīl rather than the Hanbali preacher of Baghdad, al-Barbahārī - a claim repeatedly made by modern scholars, both Western and Eastern. The present publication broaches multi-layered themes with the aim of specifying the parameters of this “Muslim Creed” in terms of the composite relationship between its content and its origin. In addition, it tackles the important question of what may have led modern Salafis to embrace the doctrinal positions of this particular statement of belief and practice and, perhaps more importantly, to pursue its “institutionalization” as a religious orthodoxy.

Maher Jarrar (PhD 1989 from the University of Tübingen) is Professor at the American University of Beirut, both at the Civilization Studies Program and at the Department of Arabic. He has published numerous books and articles in the fields of Islamic studies, Arabic literature, and literary criticism. Sebastian Günther (Ph.D. (1989, University of Halle-Wittenberg) is Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. He has published extensively on the intellectual and religious history of Islam.

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration and Style

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Ghulām Khalīl: Life, Career, and Image as a Scholar

2 The Kitāb Sharḥ al-sunna: Textual Evidence, Transmission, and Authorship

3 The Third/Ninth Century: The Veneration of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal and the Proliferation of Creeds

4 Toward Common Ground: The People of the Sunna and the Community

Epilogue: Doctrinal Instruction in Times of Political Change

Translation of The Book of the Explanation of the Sunna

Appendix I: List of Editions and Translations

Appendix II: List of Traditions Transmitted on the Authority of Ghulām Khalīl

General Bibliography

Index of Proper Names

Index of Geographical Names

Index of Book Titles

Index of Termini

Arabic Edition

Bibliography for the Arabic Edition

Index for the Arabic Edition

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	Islamic History and Civilization ; 174
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	712 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-42904-2 / 9004429042
ISBN-13	978-90-04-42904-8 / 9789004429048
Zustand	Neuware