Narrative social structure : anatomy of the hadith transmission network, 610-1505 - Senturk, Recep , 1964- (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2005)
1. Introduction -- 2. Social and literary structure of isnad : whose narrative? -- 3. The ceaseless synergy between literary and social structures -- 4. Reconstructing the hadith transmission network : narratives into network -- 5. From synchronic to diachronic methods ; temporal constraints on action -- 6. Social and literary dynamics of authority formation : the macro-level LRS effect -- 7. Narrative and sociology of intellectuals : from Ibn Khaldun to Collins -- 8. On the shoulders of giants : chain of memory and the micro-level LRS effect -- 9. Conclusion : speech and action conjoined on the diachronic axis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and index
Keywords: Discourse analysis; Hadith -- Authorities; Hadith -- Criticism, interpretation, etc