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Hadith - Bridges between Muslim and Western scholars

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Currently there is little communication between the world of Muslim hadith scholarship and Western academia. Muslim scholars reject the Westerners as 'Orientalists' who are hostile to religion in general and Islam in particular. Western academics tend to dismiss Muslim scholars as irrelevant, bound as they are to millennia-old technique of hadith evaluation by chain of transmission which non-Muslims scholarship regards with skepticism. However, some Muslim scholars have undergone Western academic training and taken up positions betwee ...

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Hadith - Bridges between Muslim and Western scholars

However, some Muslim scholars have undergone Western academic training and taken up positions between the traditional Muslim and the secular Western view. Notable among these was Fazlur Rahman (1911-1988) who argued that while the chain of transmission of the hadith may often be spurious, the content, the matn, can still be used to understand how Islam can be lived in the modern world. Liberal movements within Islam tend to agree with Rahman's views to varying degrees.

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