The Rules of Matn Criticism: There Are No Rules

Abstract In an effort to avoid the subjectivity of individual reason, Sunni Islam elaborated a method of hadīth criticism that subordinated evaluating the meaning of a report to an examination of its chain of transmission. With the fourth/tenth-century epistemological compromise of Ash'arism, h...

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Main Author: Brown, Jonathan A. C. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2012
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2012, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 356-396
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