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Book Description
Majāmiʿ al-Isnād brings together the various routes of transmission linking Shaykh Akram Nadwi to the books of Hadith, works on the Prophet’s biography and history, books of creed and jurisprudence, and other treatises and collections of authorisations and transmissions. Its purpose is to serve as one link in the chain of transmitters and one strand in the network of narrators, contributing to the preservation of this continuous scholarly heritage and reminding readers of its immense significance and the gravity of the responsibility it entails. The book is organised into an introduction and four chapters, highlighting the various forms of transmission and the diversity of its routes.
About the author
Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi is a world-renowned scholar of Indian origin, who received in-depth training in the traditional Islamic disciplines at Nadwat al-Ulama (Lucknow, India) alongside a PhD in Arabic literature from Lucknow University. He spent several years as a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies where he conducted research on a number of topics including hadith and Sufi orders in India. He is the author of close to 30 books across the full range of the Islamic Sciences.