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There is also the ITS revised publication of Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development & Special Features by Muhammad Siddiqi. It is actually the recommended text of a hadith class I am presently taking, a review of which (by our teacher) can be found here. So at the moment, I cannot comment much on its contents. And thank you for the references, I had forgotten about Shaykh Muhammad Kamali's work, which should prove to be an interesting follow-up read. But I believe that the work by Shaykh Muhamamd Siddiqi was written specifically to answer the objections of the Orientalists, which may perhaps make the work more relevant than others in the field.

There is also the interesting, but not entirely relevant work Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam by Shaykh Mohammad Nadwi, an English-speaking hadith scholar himself, which has not gotten the publicity that it deserves. You would think that in our age of propaganda, than an Indian scholar documenting in English for the first time, an encyclopedic biographical compilation of the female contribution to one of the most fundamental of all "fundamentalists" sciences in Islam that is the cumulation of years of research, it would have gotten at least a little mainstream publicity. But alas!

Shalom

Thanks brother.

May Allah never remove your thirst for knowledge and steadfastness in the path.

[DocW]

are you saying that you studied Islam in depth to learn the essance of that religion? or what is the search for a righteous religion?

The second question being, what was it about Islam that you disagreed with?

[alan]

are you saying that you studied Islam in depth to learn the essance of that religion? or what is the search for a righteous religion?

The second question being, what was it about Islam that you disagreed with?

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[Kabeer]

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I dont think he is asking you Alan, its directed to newsX

[alan]

I dont think he is asking you Alan, its directed to newsX

Thank you I was cognisant of that.