Daniel Brown's "Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic thought " Book summary
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I have his Phd dissertation he did about the canonization of Imam Bukhari in pdf format. It has an amazing amount of info and shows how hadith became canonized and how Bukhari emerged in the 4th century as an icon. It tells you how the malikis and Hanafis reacted to these developments. As time went along hadiths became more and more central and authoritative. its still boggles the mind how the early Sunni jurist did not afford hadiths the same authority they do today. The hanafis took almost 700 years to accept Bukharis hadiths and ahad hadiths in general.
This thread is quite old, and the links aren't working anymore. Would it be possible for someone to upload this file again? )
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Thanks for reposting that Wakas. I'm downloading it now myself.
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I just came across this series of lectures by Jonathan Brown, wonder if anyone has watched them by any chance?
Hadith Collections and Criticism with Dr. Jonathan brown
For some reason, I'm a bit averse to watching lectures on video, reading is always faster, and when I have a book in front of me I can browse it and decide whether it's worth reading or not. With videos, this is not so easy. Plus, these ones are not the best quality. But then, if the subject is interesting and the speaker good, it would be well worth it.
