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Based on a variety of largely unutilized printed, as well as documentary and manuscript sources collected from archives in the Middle East, North Africa, India and Europe, this dissertation is a longue durée study of the evolution of the conception and function of hadith transmi…

This dissertation examines the Sudanese experience with the Islamization of the state and its recent reevaluation due both to the critical interventions of Muslim intellectuals and activists and the pressures of peace with the majority non-Muslim south. Its chapters examine Suda…