Travels and Cities of the ḤadÄ«th Studies: An Analysis of BuldÄn in the Islamic Intellectual History
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Biographical materials of cities or regions are arguably a part of scattered Muslim historical compositions, with a noticeable impact on the shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam. This article aims to draw attention to the concept of buldÄn in the Islamic intellectual history, which is largely converged with the concept of á¹abaqÄt, or generational structure in the theoretical treatises as classified by the classical ḤadÄ«th scholars. Based on the answers to this question, the task involves analysing both theoretical and practical aspects of ḤadÄ«th collections and ḤadÄ«th theoretical treatises along with biographical dictionaries of the earlier periods, beginning with the sixth/twelfth century and then going back to the second/eighth century. Our historical research and discursive approach have pointed out that the representations of cities or regions in the biographical dictionaries of ḤadÄ«th scholars carry culturally and historically significant impacts, in addition to an insight that early Muslim scholars correlated knowledge with social endurance of cities.
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Travels and Cities of the ḤadÄ«th Studies: An Analysis of BuldÄn in the Islamic Intellectual History
In: Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur'an and Hadith StudiesSearch for other papers by Muhammad Fawwaz Bin Muhammad Yusoff in
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Abstract
Biographical materials of cities or regions are arguably a part of scattered Muslim historical compositions, with a noticeable impact on the shaping of literary traditions in classical Islam. This article aims to draw attention to the concept of buldÄn in the Islamic intellectual history, which is largely converged with the concept of á¹abaqÄt, or generational structure in the theoretical treatises as classified by the classical ḤadÄ«th scholars. Based on the answers to this question, the task involves analysing both theoretical and practical aspects of ḤadÄ«th collections and ḤadÄ«th theoretical treatises along with biographical dictionaries of the earlier periods, beginning with the sixth/twelfth century and then going back to the second/eighth century. Our historical research and discursive approach have pointed out that the representations of cities or regions in the biographical dictionaries of ḤadÄ«th scholars carry culturally and historically significant impacts, in addition to an insight that early Muslim scholars correlated knowledge with social endurance of cities.
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