Three Western Scholars and Islamic Tradition: Opinions on its Early Development.

• Main Author: Librande, Leonard T.
• Other Authors: Adams, Charles. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1972
• Subjects: Islamic Studies.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=108861

Islamic Tradition is the record safeguarded by the Islamic community which claims to preserve the very words and deeds of Muhammad as well as those of many of his companions. In the West major work on Tradition was undertaken first by Ignaz Goldziber in his Muhammedanische Studien (1888). His investigation into Umayyad history convinced him the period allowed the influx of numerous forgeries. These Traditionserdichtungen so overcame Tradition that no attempt in the 'Abbisid era could ever repair the damage. The second major scholar of Tradition was Joseph Schacht. Though his book, The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence (1950), treated the legal work of al-Shafi'i in particular, his evaluation of al-Shafi'i's fight for the position of Tradition in law led Professor Schacht to make numerous conclusions about the authenticity and growth of traditions. [...]