THEORY, METHODS, & DEBATES Essays on the theory of Islamic Studies, including methodology, reviews, and scholarly debates. The New Historiography of Islamic Origins: A Review of Some Recent Trends in the Field “Common Links” as the Creators of Hadith: A Case Study of a Syrian Prophecy about the Antichrist The Origins of Early Sunni Hadith Criticism, Part 2: The Modern Debate Explaining Contradictions in Exegetical Hadith