The Piety of the Hadith Folk

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ID8965212
AuthorsChristopher Melchert (corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume34
Issue3
Pages425-439
Publication date2002-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002074380200301x
OpenAlexW2145074170
LanguageEN
Citations received10

One of the most remarkable surveys of Islamic history and civilization remains Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam , published posthumously in 1974. 1 For an introductory text, it has some bad faults—notably, a very dense style. Moreover, it has inevitably fallen out of date at many points. For example, one may admire Hodgson for coming up with his own critique of modernization theory in volume 3, but modernization theory has fallen so completely before other critiques that we hardly need Hodgson any longer. However, Hodgson has had some permanent effects on the way scholars approach Islamic history. For example, we may not have adopted many of his neologisms, but he certainly has made us self-conscious when we use the traditional terminology. The mere mention of “Jamaעi-Sunni,” “Islamicate,” “Arabist bias,” and other special terms immediately alerts us to the dangers of some customary approaches to Islamic history

Archaeology · Civilization · Epistemology · History of Islam · Islam · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Neologism · Piety · Political science · Sociology · Terminology · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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