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Regularity and Variation in Islamic Chains of Transmission

Chapter of: Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World(pp. 247–281)

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TitleRegularity and Variation in Islamic Chains of Transmission
ContributorMaroussia Bednarkiewicz(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0375.09
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0375/chapters/10.11647/obp.0375.09
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
CopyrightMaroussia Bednarkiewicz
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-12-19
Long abstractThe isnād is a list of narrators’ names which precedes an account about Islam’s prophet or his companions, and indicates its origin. The content and the form of this list have been studied in different fields. Islamicists have scrutinised the names contained in the isnād in order to assess the authenticity of the following account and uncover potential fraudsters. Computer scientists, in turn, have focused on form: they attempted to exploit the regular succession of names and transmission terms to develop algorithms capable of distinguishing isnād from non-isnād texts. The present chapter opens a novel horizon by analyzing the structural variations of the isnād within the old and universal context of list-making. A twofold methodology, combining traditional and computational text analysis, highlights the actual contours of the isnād in a large corpus of texts and propose a hierarchy of functions linked to the different variations observed.
Page rangepp. 247–281
Print length35 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Maroussia Bednarkiewicz

(author)
Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence for Machine Learning and the Institute for Oriental Studies at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0445-6578

Maroussia Bednarkiewicz is research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence for Machine Learning and the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the early history of the Islamic call to prayer and works currently on the evolution of ḥadīth chains of transmission. Her current project aims at developing algorithms for the study of ḥadīth and classical Arabic texts.