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Authors: Recep Senturk
ISBN-13: 9780804752077, ISBN-10: 0804752079
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: 1

Author Biography: Recep Senturk

Recep Senturk is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM) in Istanbul, Turkey.

Book Synopsis

This book presents the first attempt by a sociologist to unearth the long hadith transmission network from ancient historical sources and analyze it using the most recent qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.

1	Introduction	1
2	Social and literary structure of Isnad : whose narrative?	29
3	The ceaseless synergy between literary and social structures	68
4	Reconstructing the Hadith transmission network : narratives into networks	94
5	From synchronic to diachronic methods : temporal constraints on action	124
6	Social and literary dynamics of authority formation : the macro-level LRS effect	159
7	Narrative and sociology of intellectuals : from Ibn Khaldun to Collins	180
8	On the shoulders of giants : chain of memory and the micro-level LRS effect	212
9	Conclusion : speech and action conjoined on the diachronic axis	245