Narrative social structure
Subtitle: anatomy of the Hadith transmission network, 610-1505
By: Recep Senturk.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Hadith -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Hadith -- Authorities; Discourse analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social and literary structure of isnad : whose narrative?; title: The ceaseless synergy between literary and social structures; title: Reconstructing the Hadith transmission network : narratives into networks; title: From synchronic to diachronic methods : temporal constraints on action; title: Social and literary dynamics of authority formation : the macro-level LRS effect; title: Narrative and sociology of intellectuals : from Ibn Khaldun to Collins; title: On the shoulders of giants : chain of memory and the micro-level LRS effect; title: Conclusion : speech and action conjoined on the diachronic axis.