I-Wen Su
Biographic Data
| ID | 710893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I-Wen Su |
| GIVEN NAMES | I-Wen |
| FAMILY NAME | Su |
| SIGNATURE | SU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Chengchi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5172-2810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Merits and Limits of Isnād-Cum-Matn Analysis in Dating Deep Dives
The authenticity of traditions transmitted through single strands, including dives – the chains of transmission that do not pass through common links – is subject to much scholarly debate. This article studies two sets of faḍāʾil hadith, The Best Three (TBT) hadith, which singles out the first three caliphs as the best men of the Muslim community during the Prophet’s lifetime, and Ten Promised Paradise (TPT) hadith, which lists nine or ten Compan…
Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Saʿdī al-Jūzjānī (d. 259/873?) and his Aḥwāl al-rijāl
This article presents the first complete biography in English of the early hadith critic al-Jūzjānī (d. 259/873?), in addition to a thorough analysis of his work Aḥwāl al-rijāl , the earliest Syngramma dedicated to the genre of al-jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl . Through a detailed examination of al-Jūzjānī's engagement with the opinions of earlier hadith critics, his use of the terms of hadith criticism and his own remarks, this article delineates his concept…
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”
The Ten promised paradise
The concept that a certain nine or ten Companions, assured of Paradise in a Prophet ḥadīth, are superior to the rest of the Companions is among the most noteworthy Sunni beliefs. However, though well represented in the works of the ninth-century ḥadīth scholars, this concept has yet to receive adequate discussion in current scholarship. This article investigates its origin by examining various versions of the ‘Ten Promised Paradise’ ḥadīth throug…
Martyrs on the Mountain
This study investigates the origin, transmission, and reception of two hadith with doctrinal significance on the formation of early Sunni identity and memory of the past-the Mountain hadith, in which the Prophet designates each of the first three caliphs as either a saint or a martyr; and the Ten Promised Paradise hadith, which names the first four caliphs and another five or six Companions as the future residents of paradise. The study identifie…
The Ambiguity of Early Hadith Criticism
Toward a Sunni Consensus on the Rightly Guided Caliphs
This article studies how the ʿUthmānī position endorsing the first three caliphs, which was embraced by the majority of the ahl al-ḥadīth in the first two centuries of Islam, came to be replaced by the four-caliph thesis. It examines variations in the narrations of different chains of transmission of Ibn ʿUmar's tradition in relation to the geographical affiliation and movements of the transmitters active in the late eighth and early ninth centur…
ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī (161–234/778–849)
Considered precursors of ḥadīth criticism, the opinions of ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Jaʿfar al-Madīnī (161–234/778–849), extensively cited by later ḥadīth scholars, have given considerable weight to the credibility of a ḥadīth and its transmitters. Despite his centrality to the science of ḥadīth, there is not a single monograph dedicated to him and his intellectual output in the scholarly literature in English. This article presents a critical reconst…
Early Shiʿi Kufan Traditionists' Perspective on the Rightly Guided Caliphs
This article revisits a widely accepted yet unsubstantiated trajectory of early Kufan Zaydi history, namely, that with ʿAlī recognized as the fourth rightly guided caliph by the proto-Sunni traditionists, represented by Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 241/855), the Batri traditionists were Sunnified. Analysis of Safīna's hadith transmission and the transmitters of the first four caliphs' virtues suggests that the four-caliphs thesis was likely circulated in …
The Family History of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī
This paper investigates the family history of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and the sectarian implications, in the second half of the ninth century, of their affiliation with the Ṭālibids alongside their connections with the ʿAbbasid court. By studying the Iṣfahānī family’s social networks (specifically, the three generations before al-Iṣfahānī) and the wider socio-political milieu, the paper suggests that the Ṭālibids, who had strong presence in Sama…
Paintings as “Visual Poetry”
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) and work on multimodal metaphors (Forceville, 2006) has opened up a new approach to the study of language and other modalities. However, relatively few cognitive linguistic investigations of visual art have been performed. We analyzed paintings done by Spanish Surrealist Juan Miró (1893-1983), focusing on diagrammatic iconicity, i.e. how his pictorial elements are arranged structurally in ways…
Paintings as “Visual Poetry”
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) and work on multimodal metaphors (Forceville, 2006) has opened up a new approach to the study of language and other modalities. However, relatively few cognitive linguistic investigations of visual art have been performed. We analyzed paintings done by Spanish Surrealist Juan Miró (1893-1983), focusing on diagrammatic iconicity, i.e. how his pictorial elements are arranged structurally in ways…
The Family History of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī
This paper investigates the family history of Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and the sectarian implications, in the second half of the ninth century, of their affiliation with the Ṭālibids alongside their connections with the ʿAbbasid court. By studying the Iṣfahānī family’s social networks (specifically, the three generations before al-Iṣfahānī) and the wider socio-political milieu, the paper suggests that the Ṭālibids, who had strong presence in Sama…
ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī (161–234/778–849)
Considered precursors of ḥadīth criticism, the opinions of ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Jaʿfar al-Madīnī (161–234/778–849), extensively cited by later ḥadīth scholars, have given considerable weight to the credibility of a ḥadīth and its transmitters. Despite his centrality to the science of ḥadīth, there is not a single monograph dedicated to him and his intellectual output in the scholarly literature in English. This article presents a critical reconst…
Early Shiʿi Kufan Traditionists' Perspective on the Rightly Guided Caliphs
This article revisits a widely accepted yet unsubstantiated trajectory of early Kufan Zaydi history, namely, that with ʿAlī recognized as the fourth rightly guided caliph by the proto-Sunni traditionists, represented by Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 241/855), the Batri traditionists were Sunnified. Analysis of Safīna's hadith transmission and the transmitters of the first four caliphs' virtues suggests that the four-caliphs thesis was likely circulated in …
The Ambiguity of Early Hadith Criticism
Toward a Sunni Consensus on the Rightly Guided Caliphs
This article studies how the ʿUthmānī position endorsing the first three caliphs, which was embraced by the majority of the ahl al-ḥadīth in the first two centuries of Islam, came to be replaced by the four-caliph thesis. It examines variations in the narrations of different chains of transmission of Ibn ʿUmar's tradition in relation to the geographical affiliation and movements of the transmitters active in the late eighth and early ninth centur…
The Ten promised paradise
The concept that a certain nine or ten Companions, assured of Paradise in a Prophet ḥadīth, are superior to the rest of the Companions is among the most noteworthy Sunni beliefs. However, though well represented in the works of the ninth-century ḥadīth scholars, this concept has yet to receive adequate discussion in current scholarship. This article investigates its origin by examining various versions of the ‘Ten Promised Paradise’ ḥadīth throug…
Martyrs on the Mountain
This study investigates the origin, transmission, and reception of two hadith with doctrinal significance on the formation of early Sunni identity and memory of the past-the Mountain hadith, in which the Prophet designates each of the first three caliphs as either a saint or a martyr; and the Ten Promised Paradise hadith, which names the first four caliphs and another five or six Companions as the future residents of paradise. The study identifie…
Al-Jūzjānī’s Approach to Hadith Criticism and His “Antagonism toward ʿAlī”
Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb al-Saʿdī al-Jūzjānī (d. 259/873?) and his Aḥwāl al-rijāl
This article presents the first complete biography in English of the early hadith critic al-Jūzjānī (d. 259/873?), in addition to a thorough analysis of his work Aḥwāl al-rijāl , the earliest Syngramma dedicated to the genre of al-jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl . Through a detailed examination of al-Jūzjānī's engagement with the opinions of earlier hadith critics, his use of the terms of hadith criticism and his own remarks, this article delineates his concept…
The Merits and Limits of Isnād-Cum-Matn Analysis in Dating Deep Dives
The authenticity of traditions transmitted through single strands, including dives – the chains of transmission that do not pass through common links – is subject to much scholarly debate. This article studies two sets of faḍāʾil hadith, The Best Three (TBT) hadith, which singles out the first three caliphs as the best men of the Muslim community during the Prophet’s lifetime, and Ten Promised Paradise (TPT) hadith, which lists nine or ten Compan…
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