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Hadith Scholarship in the Indian Subcontinent
Scholars are indebted to Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri (d. 188o) for his editorial and commentarial work, particularly of Sahih al-Bukhari. His efforts in bringing canonical hadith texts to print have benefitted hundreds of thousands of students, yet his legacy is not adequately recognized. This monograph serves to fill this void by providing a comprehensive study of his life, works, and scholarly methodology. To contextualize Saharanpari’s curriculum vitae, it also surveys the most salient hadith activities in the Indian subcontinent from the early Umayyad conquests until the twentieth century.
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Hadith Scholarship in the Indian Subcontinent
Scholars are indebted to Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri (d. 188o) for his editorial and commentarial work, particularly of Sahih al-Bukhari, which he edited and annotated, leaving no room for further work. Thus said Abd al-Hayy al-Hasani (d. 1923), a leading scholar of South Asian intellectual history.
The present monograph traces Saharanpuri’s efforts to synthesize traditional knowledge with modern technology. Shortly after the first lithographic printing house was founded in India, Saharanpuri introduced seminal hadith literature to the world of print for the first time thus bridging the gap between Muslim scholarship and the modern age.
His efforts in bringing canonical hadith texts to print have benefitted hundreds of thousands of students, yet his legacy is not adequately recognized. This monograph serves to fill this void by providing a comprehensive study of his life, works, and scholarly methodology. To contextualize Saharanpari’s curriculum vitae, it also surveys the most salient hadith activities in the Indian subcontinent from the early Umayyad conquests until the twentieth century.
