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Narrative social structure : anatomy of the Hadith transmission network, 610-1505

Print Book, English, 2005
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
313 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780804752077, 0804752079
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Social and literary structure of isnad : whose narrative?
The ceaseless synergy between literary and social structures
Reconstructing the Hadith transmission network : narratives into networks
From synchronic to diachronic methods : temporal constraints on action
Social and literary dynamics of authority formation : the macro-level LRS effect
Narrative and sociology of intellectuals : from Ibn Khaldun to Collins
On the shoulders of giants : chain of memory and the micro-level LRS effect
Conclusion : speech and action conjoined on the diachronic axis