Narrative social structure : anatomy of the hadith transmission network, 610-1505
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press ,
2005
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Table of Contents:
- 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