Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURES AND IMAGES ; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION ; 1. : Introduction ; 2. : The History of Hadith Literature: A Review of Muslim and Western Theoretical Perspectives ; 3. : The Tradition of Hadith Studies in South Asia ; 4. : Revisionist Discourses on Hadith Studies in Late Nineteenth Century British India, 1850-1900 ; 5. : Towards a New Prophetology: Maulvi 'Abdullah Chakralavi's Ahl al-Qur'an Movement, 1900-32 ; 6. : Islamic Universalism: The 'Amritsari' Version of Ahl al-Qur'an, 1924-52 ; 7. : 'God's Kingdom on Earth': Ghulam Ahmad Parvez, the Pakistani State and the Politics of Islam, 1947-69 ; 8. Glossary ; APPENDIX I: CATEGORIES OF HADITH ; APPENDIX II: A SELECTION OF 'CONTROVERSIAL' AHADITH FROM 'AUTHENTIC' COLLECTIONS ; APPENDIX III: IMAGES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

About the Author

Ali Usman Qasmi is a Newton Fellow for postdoctoral research at the history department of Royal Holloway College, University of London. He recived his PhD in South Asian History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2009.

Reviews

this is an important contribution not only to towards a better understanding of the Ahl al-Qur'an nut also to the study of Islam in modern South Asia. Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies