ABSTRACT
A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature. A number of studies appear for the first time in English. The topics dealt with relate to the Islamic prostration in ritual prayer, Islamic traditions which are discussed through the analysis of hadith literature and reports and narratives related to the literary genre of the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' (Stories of the Prophets). The readers of this collection of essays are scholars and students of early Islam, of the development hadith literature and of the narratives on Islamic prophets; all together the studies bring to light the dynamics between the formation of early traditions and their role in the origin and developments of Islamic literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|88 pages
The Islamic Act of Prostration (Sujūd)
chapter 1|29 pages
Muslim Attitudes towards Prostration (Sujūd)
chapter 2|20 pages
Muslim Attitudes towards Prostration (Sujūd)
part II|77 pages
Hadith, Traditions, and Literature
chapter 6|15 pages
Ḥadīth and Muslim Dietary Norms
chapter 7|11 pages
“Two Rivers are Believers and Two are Disbelievers…”
chapter 10|14 pages
Methods and Contexts in the Use of Ḥadīths in Classical Tafsīr Literature
part III|76 pages
The Staff of Moses, the Prophets