RT Article
T1 The Ur-Muwaṭṭaʾ and Its Recensions
JF Islamic law and society
VO 28
IS 4
SP 352
OP 381
A1 El Shamsy, Ahmed 1976-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777581907
AB Abstract In this essay, I use the numerous extensive quotations from Mālik found in al-Shāfiʿī’s Kitāb al-Umm to reconstruct what might be called al-Shāfiʿī’s recension of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ and to compare this recension with the surviving complete Muwaṭṭaʾ recensions of Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, Ibn Bukayr, and Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī. I present examples of the differences between the recensions, analyze one specific type of variant closely, and use my findings to suggest possible reasons for the various kinds of discrepancies. Through this analysis I both affirm Mālik’s role as the Muwaṭṭaʾ’s author and situate the nature of his authorship in the context of teaching and transmission practices and the materiality of the book in the second/eighth century.
K1 Muwaṭṭaʾ
K1 al-Shāfiʿī
K1 Mālik b. Anas
K1 Textual Transmission
K1 early Islamic law
DO 10.1163/15685195-bja10011