The Appellation Ṣāḥib Sunna in Classical Islam: How Sunnism Came To Be

The term ṣāḥib sunna is frequently encountered in classical Arabic biographical dictionaries. In this article, I compare the group of Islamic religious scholars (ulama) identified as aṣḥāb sunna with comparable religious scholars who did not receive such a designation. The results show that the aṣḥā...

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Main Author: Nawas, John A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2016, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-22
Further subjects:B Hadith
B Classical Islam
B Sunnism
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