HIST 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sahih Al-Bukhari, Sunnah, Tajwid
Document Summary
Religious specialists and proto-scholars ( ulama") from piety: aur"an recitation (tilawah and tajwid), study and interpretation (asbab al-nuzul-reasons for revelation; lexicographical linguistic studies; tafsir vs. ta"wil. In order to quarantee still understand quaran, look at study of language, study dictionary meanings. Revealed because scandal and this scandal cleared up false accusations against wife. Sahih bukhari (d. 870) and muslim (d. 875) (4 other collections) colections became authoritative among sunni commnutiy as authentic. The genre of early-religious writing, great signficiance for muslim understanding of traditions and understanding of islamic law. Increasingly emphasis not on reports from first generaitosn, but increasingly emphasis on exclusive authority. Authority invested and exclusively over time, in the repots of what prophet said or did, emulation: fiqh-jurisprudnce, kalam-theology. Each places geographical dispersed, have particular local practices of how they do things over successive generations, how distinguish one another.