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Index
List of figures
Foreword
Truth and historical tradition: Some introductory quotations
Introduction
1 The present work
2 On the reliability of the tradition: From the nineteenth century to c. 1980
3 On the reliability of the tradition: Recent trends
4 A paradigm shift?
5 Cutting the Gordian knot?
6 Procedure
1 The main Medinese transmitters: Learning and teaching – the use of writing
1.1 ibn az-Zubayr
1.2 Ibn Šihāb az-Zuhrī
1.3 ibn
Excursus: The ‘court impulse’
1.4 Transmitters of Ibn Kitāb : Yūnus ibn Bukayr, Ziyād al-Bakkā’ī, Salamah ibn
1.5 Redactors and adaptors of Ibn Kitāb : Ibn Hišām,
1.6 The subsequent transmission of Ibn Hišām’s Sīrah
1.7 Written and oral transmission in the early Medinese teaching system
1.8 Summary
2 The text in the transmission process: first revelation (the iqra’ narration)
2.1 The Zuhrī recension
2.2 Evidence for a possible recension
2.3 Is the original informant?
2.4 The Ibn recension
Excursus: Caedmon and
2.5 The ‘purged’ recension
2.6 The Zuhrī recension again: The two versions
2.7 The probable archetype: The narration of the ibn
2.8 Other variants of the iqra’ narration
2.9 The basic components of the traditions about the first revelation
2.10 A factual core of the traditions about the experience of the first revelation?
2.11 Summary
3 The issue of authenticity: The tradition of the slander against ( al-ifk )
3.1 The Zuhrī recension
3.2 The Ibn recension
Excursus: Chronology
3.3 The Wāqidī recension
Excursus: Al-Wāqidī’s use of his sources and his relation to Ibn
Excursus: The Wansbrough hypothesis – some remarks on the application of the ‘transmission historical method’ to early historical texts
3.4 Az-Zuhrī’s informants
3.5 The Hišām ibn recension
Excursus: A method to distinguish between authentic and inauthentic versions of a tradition
3.6 The ‘purged’ recension
3.7 Is the original informant?
3.8 Inauthentic and problematic imitations of the main recensions
3.9 The recension: An independent transmission?
3.10 Authentic and inauthentic traditions
3.11 Summary
Afterword 2009
1 Reviews of the first edition
2 Subsequent research on the corpus
3 A fictitious dialogue
Appendix 1: The corpus
I first revelation: The iqra’ narration
II The tradition of the slander against The al-ifk
Appendix 2: List of sigla
I Termini technici
II Versions of traditions reporting the first revelation experience
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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