Muḥammad Nāṣīr al-Dīn al-Albānī and traditional Hadith criticism
Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī (d. 1999) was an influential Syrian hadith critic. A major advocate of Salafism, he proposed to infer rules directly from hadith, bypassing the historic Sunni schools of law. He taught in Saudi Arabia 1961-3 but had to leave because of aberrant legal opinions; for exa...
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Edinburgh University Press
2016
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