Anthropomorphism in Islam: The Challenge of Traditionalism (700-1350)

ISBN-13: 9781474452649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 448 str.

Livnat Holtzman

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Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Narrator and the Narrative: A Literary Analysis of A??d?th al-?if?t; Introduction; I. A Preliminary Remark on Hadith and Narratology; II. The Framing Narrative; III. The Embedded Narrative; IV. The Narrator and His Audience; V. The Motives of the Narrator; VI. The Narrator’s Role; 2. A Tale of Two Narrators: Some Historical, Geographical, and Cultural Considerations; Introduction; I. Two Different Narrators; II. The Proliferation of the Abu Razin Narrative; III. Two Narrators and One Narrative: The Tribal Connection; IV. The Proliferation of the Jarir Narrative; V. The Jarir Narrative and the Mi?na; 3. Gestures and A??d?th al-?if?t; Introduction; I. The Prophet’s Gestures: Iconic, Metaphoric, and Deictic; II. ‘The Instance of Narrating’: The Narrator and His Audience; III. The Performing Trend; IV. The Ultimate Performer of A??d?th al-?if?t; V. The Predicament of the Traditionalists; 4. The Diversified Solution to the Challenge of Islamic Traditionalism: A??d?th al-?if?t and Bi-L? Kayfa; Introduction; I. Drawing the Borderlines of the Traditionalistic Discourse; II. The Earliest Debate; III. Transmission, Censorship, and Euphemisms; IV. The All-Inclusive Tanz?h: The Ash?arite Solution; V. Expanding the Borders of the Traditionalistic Discourse; 5. Iconic Books and Gestures: A??d?th al-?if?t in the Public Sphere; Introduction; I. The Iconicity of the Qadiri Creed; II. The Three Dimensions of Kit?b al-Taw??d; III. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Response to Kit?b al-Taw??d; IV. Ibn Taymiyya’s al-?amawiyya al-Kubr? and Two Iconic Gestures; V. Iconic Gestures and the Hashwiyya; Final Remarks and Conclusions; Appendix I: Full Translations of Lengthy Traditions; 1. A Marginal Version of ?ad?th al-Nuz?l; 2. The Lengthy ?ad?th al-Ru?ya; 3. The Lengthy ?ad?th Fid?? al-Mu?min from Ibn ?Asakir’s T?r?kh Dimashq; Appendix II: Full Translation of ‘the ?ad?th of Allegiance’ of Abu Razin; Appendix III: Chains of Transmission; Appendix IV: Chains of Transmission; Appendix V: Chains of Transmission; Bibliography; I. Primary Sources; II. Secondary Sources.