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Dissertation

The Unabridged Version of My PhD Thesis

March 7, 2023 by Joshua Little

My PhD thesis, entitled “The Hadith of ʿĀʾišah’s Marital Age: A Study in the Evolution of Early Islamic Historical Memory”, is now publicly available. The full unabridged version can be accessed here: I originally submitted both an abridged and unabridged version of my thesis for examination, and my examiners advocated for the unabridged version to … [Read more…]

Posted in: History, Methods & Debates, Textual Analysis, Theory Tagged: Aisha, Aishah, Diagram, Diagrams, Dissertation, Hadith, Harald Motzki, Isnad, isnad-cum-matn analysis, Isnads, Joshua Little, Oxford, PhD, Thesis

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