Monthly Archives: July 2010

Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence by Joseph Schacht. Written about 60 years ago, but considered one of the best works in hadith studies: https://ahadithstudies.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/origins-muhammadan-jurisprudence-schacht.pdf (right click, save link as)

Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law by Ignaz Goldziher. Written about a 100 years ago, but considered one of the best works in the field of hadith by a Western scholar, PDF: Click to access introduction-islamic-theology-law-goldziher.pdf

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