BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Hadith\, the first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds\, is one of the two major sources for the Muslims apart from th e Qur’an. This panel will present two analyses of hadith legacy. Recep Sen turk\, the first panelist\, is going to analyze the Hadith transmission ne twork from a sociological perspective as a chain of social memory. He will discuss that Hadith represents a major part of the social memory of Musli m society and it has been transmitted across generations through Hadith tr ansmission network until today. He will draw attention to the role of the prominent scholars of Hadith known as huffaz in the transmission process. This network is the longest recorded social network in the world today. Th en\, Issam Eido\, the other panelist\, is going to analyze the social aspe ct of Isnad (chain of narrators) in early Hadith criticism. He will presen t a new understanding of the criteria used by Muslim scholars in accepting or rejecting traditions attributed to Muhammad based on ranking of first- generation narrators\, and the significance of their region\, gender\, and relationship to the hadith content.Panelists:Issam EidoVanderbilt Univers ityHarvard UniversityIssam Eido is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University where he also serves as Directo r of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Religious Studies. He rec eived his PhD in Islamic Studies from Damascus University. Eido’s primary research interests are Qur’an and Hadīth Studies\, mysticism and ethics. E ido’s most recent book\, Early Ḥadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Ḥadīt h Criticism (in Arabic)\, presents a new understanding of the criteria use d by Muslim scholars in accepting or rejecting traditions attributed to th e Prophet and the transformations of that criteria from the classical to t he modern period. Eido is currently a Research Fellow at the Harvard Progr am in Islamic Law at Harvard University through MESA Global Academy Schola rs. \;Recep Şentürk \;Ibn Haldun UniversityRecep Şentürk holds a P h.D. from Columbia University\, Department of Sociology\, and specializes in civilization studies\, sociology\, and Islamic studies with a focus on social networks\, human rights\, and modernization in the Muslim world. Şe ntürk’s publications are available in Turkish\, English\, Arabic\, Japanes e\, and Spanish. He currently serves as a professor of sociology at Ibn Ha ldun University\, Department of Sociology. He was the founding president o f Ibn Haldun University and Alliance of Civilizations Institute at Fatih S ultan Mehmet Vakif University. He was a research fellow at Emory Universit y Law School and a British Academy Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. He is the founding president of Usul Academy and International Ibn Khaldun S ociety. (https://www.recepsenturk.com) \;Moderator:Ahmet CelikSyracuse UniversityAhmet Celik is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His research interests\, in general\, include compar ative political thought\, Islamic political and legal theory\, political p hilosophies of Plato and Aristotle\, and early modern and modern political philosophy. His dissertation project sits at the intersection of religion \, philosophy\, and political theory as it examines the concept of soverei gnty in Islamic political thought. Moreover\, his project aims to explore and understand how sovereign power is defined\, justified\, and limited wi thin the context of multiple political discourses that emerged in the clas sical period of Islam. To trace Islamic conceptions of sovereignty\, he pa ys particular attention to the notions of political authority\, lawgiver\, and sovereign ruler in the political writings of three leading Muslim thi nkers: al-Farabi (d.950)\, al-Mawardi (d.1058)\, and al-Juwayni (d.1085). After graduating from Marmara University Faculty of Theology\, he received his MA from the Islamic Law department of the same University. While doin g PhD at Marmara University on Islamic political thought\, he moved to New York City as a visiting researcher at Columbia University for two years. He received his Master of Philosophy and Certificate of Advanced Study in Middle Eastern Affairs from Syracuse University.Co-sponsored by: \; De partment of Religion DTEND:20220406T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T084333Z DTSTART:20220406T180000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Hadith Legacy: The Content and the Social Network of Hadith in Isla mic Intellectual History UID:RFCALITEM639140714134896462 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Hadith\, the first-hand reports of the Prop het Muhammad’s words and deeds\, is one of the two major sources for the M uslims apart from the Qur’an. This panel will present two analyses of hadi th legacy. Recep Senturk\, the first panelist\, is going to analyze the Ha dith transmission network from a sociological perspective as a chain of so cial memory. He will discuss that Hadith represents a major part of the so cial memory of Muslim society and it has been transmitted across generatio ns through Hadith transmission network until today. He will draw attention to the role of the prominent scholars of Hadith known as huffaz in the tr ansmission process. This network is the longest recorded social network in the world today. Then\, Issam Eido\, the other panelist\, is going to ana lyze the social aspect of Isnad (chain of narrators) in early Hadith criti cism. He will present a new understanding of the criteria used by Muslim s cholars in accepting or rejecting traditions attributed to Muhammad based on ranking of first-generation narrators\, and the significance of their r egion\, gender\, and relationship to the hadith content.


Panelists:


Issam Eido
Vanderbilt University
Harvard University

Issam Eido is Ass istant Professor of the Practice of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt Univer sity where he also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Dep artment of Religious Studies. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Damascus University. Eido’s primary research interests are Qur’an and Hadī th Studies\, mysticism and ethics. Eido’s most recent book\, Early Ḥadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Ḥadīth Criticism (in Arabic)\, presents a n ew understanding of the criteria used by Muslim scholars in accepting or r ejecting traditions attributed to the Prophet and the transformations of t hat criteria from the classical to the modern period. Eido is currently a Research Fellow at the Harvard Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Universit y through MESA Global Academy Scholars. \;

Rec ep Şentürk \;
Ibn Haldun University

Recep Şentürk ho lds a Ph.D. from Columbia University\, Department of Sociology\, and speci alizes in civilization studies\, sociology\, and Islamic studies with a fo cus on social networks\, human rights\, and modernization in the Muslim wo rld. Şentürk’s publications are available in Turkish\, English\, Arabic\, Japanese\, and Spanish. He currently serves as a professor of sociology at Ibn Haldun University\, Department of Sociology. He was the founding pres ident of Ibn Haldun University and Alliance of Civilizations Institute at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University. He was a research fellow at Emory Un iversity Law School and a British Academy Fellow at Oxford Brookes Univers ity. He is the founding president of Usul Academy and International Ibn Kh aldun Society. (https://www.recepse nturk.com)

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Moderator:


Ahmet Celik
Syracuse University< /p>

Ahmet Celik is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religion at Syra cuse University. His research interests\, in general\, include comparative political thought\, Islamic political and legal theory\, political philos ophies of Plato and Aristotle\, and early modern and modern political phil osophy. His dissertation project sits at the intersection of religion\, ph ilosophy\, and political theory as it examines the concept of sovereignty in Islamic political thought. Moreover\, his project aims to explore and u nderstand how sovereign power is defined\, justified\, and limited within the context of multiple political discourses that emerged in the classical period of Islam. To trace Islamic conceptions of sovereignty\, he pays pa rticular attention to the notions of political authority\, lawgiver\, and sovereign ruler in the political writings of three leading Muslim thinkers : al-Farabi (d.950)\, al-Mawardi (d.1058)\, and al-Juwayni (d.1085). After graduating from Marmara University Faculty of Theology\, he received his MA from the Islamic Law department of the same University. While doing PhD at Marmara University on Islamic political thought\, he moved to New York City as a visiting researcher at Columbia University for two years. He re ceived his Master of Philosophy and Certificate of Advanced Study in Middl e Eastern Affairs from Syracuse University.


Co-sponsore d by: \; Department of Religion

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