Ahmad Ibn Hanbal / Christopher Melchert

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hadith. The adversaries of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal (1997) -- Bukhārī and early Hadith criticism (2001) -- The Musnad of Ạhmad ibn Ḥanbal: how it was composed and what distinguishes it from the six books (2005) -- Bukhārī and his Ṣaḥiḥ (2010) -- The life and works of Al-Nasāʼī (2014) -- Piety. The transition from asceticism to mysticism at the middle of the ninth Century C.E. (1996) -- Early renunciants as Ḥadīth transmitters (2002) -- The piety of the Hadith folk (2002) -- Baṣran origins of classical sufism (2005) -- Exaggerated fear in the early Islamic renunciant tradition (2011) --Renunciation (zuhd) in the early Shiʻi traditions (2014) -- Law. How Ḥanafism came to originate in Kufa and traditionalism in Medina (1999) -- Traditionist-jurisprudents and the framing of Islamic law (2001) -- The meaning of Qāla ʼl-Shāfiʻī in ninth-century sources (2004) -- Māwardī, Abū Yaʻlá, and the Sunni revival (2010) -- The relation of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Ḥanbali School of Law (2013).