In this essay I will critically examine the term Sunnah by discussing two important aspects; its usage in the early period of Islām and its development on the one hand and the issue of its authoritativeness as theorised by the German Orientalist Joseph Schacht on the...
In this essay I will critically examine the different stages of the collection of the Qurʾān and highlight the importance of each of those stages and the critical role they played in relation to the preservation of the Qurʾānic text that Muslims possess in their hands...