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Title: A Manual of Hadith by Muhammad Ali, Maulana Muhammad Ali, Maulana Myhammad ISBN: 0-913321-15-X Publisher: Ahamadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A review for students of Arabic
Comment: This is a superb resource for students of classical Arabic. Arabic and English texts are set side by side on the same page, only the essence of each hadith is presented (eliminating long isnads and variations of the hadith), and the Arabic texts are fully voweled. This is the ideal work for an intermediate level between textbook readers and slogging through real old Arabic texts. The editor's notes and introductions are interesting, providing insight into at least one Muslim's view of the meaning and relevance of hadith in modern times. Whatever weaknesses this book may possess it was good enough to lead me to a deeper study of the original sources.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Pastoral Summary
Comment: A Manual of Hadith by Maulana Muhammad Ali should not be regarded as a comprehensive or _per se_ theological work. It is clearly pastoral and missionary. It has a pronounced ideological bent that places it squarely in the camp of modernization and humanism as subordinated to Islamic traditions on the Sub-continent. The reader should bear in mind that the collection must have been assembled and translated in the first part of the 20th century.
The author claims to be a devoted Muslim, and Muslim tradition suggests that he should be accepted as such baring strong evidence to the contary. The modernizing humanist branch of the Salfia movement _al la_ Muhammad Abduh is certainly controversial and less vocal than that of Sayid Qutb and his ilk, but must surely be in the realm of Islam and its evolving theology.
If the doctrinaire Qutbis give a Westerner an excellent argument for atheism or Buddahism, A Manual of Hadith (viewed as a document from a certain time in India) redeems Islam and is moreover an effective missionary missive to English speaking peoples.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Sanitized Selection
Comment: This collection, dependent heavily on Bukhari, sanitizes what Bukhari himself reduced: the then-known collection of over 400,000 haditha to over 7000. The original 9th Bukhari's compilation runs about 1300 pages with over 7000 haditha.(You can find Bukhari's full text collection online.) The really odd and frightening stuff is in the full Bukhari version. One never knows with these collections what hazrat Mohammad really said since they were collected 150-200 yrs after he lived and are subject to the collators preconceptions about what Mohammad would, in fact, have said. Remember, there is no canon for these sayings. I gave my copy away after taking pains to download the full electronic collection.
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Title: The Sunna : Its Obligatory and Exemplacry Aspects by Hamid Algar ISBN: 1889999016 Publisher: Islamic Publications International Pub. Date: 15 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Wisdom of the Prophet: The Sayings of Muhammad by Thomas Cleary ISBN: 1570628254 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Hadith: A Re-evaluation by Kassim Ahmad ISBN: 1881893022 Publisher: Universal Unity Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Holy Qur'Aan/English/Arabic by Maulana Muhammad Ali, Publishing Ahmadiyya, Maulana Muhammed Ali ISBN: 091332101X Publisher: Ahamadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam by Ram Swarup ISBN: 1591020174 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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