Gualtherüs (Gautier) Hendrik Albert Juynboll (1935–2010) was a scholar of
Islam
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specializing in ''
hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
'' (the collection of sayings attributed to the Prophet of Islam
Muhammad
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),
about which he published more than twenty articles.
His contributions to
hadith studies
Hadith studies is the academic study of hadith, a literature typically thought in Islamic religion to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators.
A major area of inter ...
have been called "substantial and groundbreaking" (by
Jonathan A. C. Brown),
and he has been called "talented and tireless" (A. Kevin Reinhart);
he was in 2020 the honorand of a ''
Festschrift
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''.
Life
Juynboll was born in
Leiden
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, Netherlands in 1935 and was from a "prominent" family of
Orientalists.
He studied Arabic and Islam at
Leiden University
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and obtained his doctoral degree in 1969. He worked at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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(UCLA) in the US, and the
University of Exeter
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in the UK, but became "financially independent" in 1985.
He is noted for the contention that ''
isnad
In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters, or literally "supporting"; ) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to whom the tradition is attributed to, to the present person reciting ...
''s (the chains of oral transmission of hadith) "tell us important things about the story to which the isnäd is attached".
His developed important principles and terminology for the subsequent development of
''isnād-cum-matn'' analysis (ICMA).
Works
A full bibliography of Juynboll's works has been published;
Bibliography of G.H.A. Juynboll
, in ''Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G. H. A. Juynboll'', ed. by Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Camilla Adang, Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, 10 (Leiden: Brill, 2020). his key publications were:
* ''Papers on Islamic History. Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 1982)
*''Muslim Tradition. Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Hadith'' (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
* ''Studies on the Origins and Uses of Islamic Hadith'' (Routledge, 1996)
*''Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith'' (Brill, Leiden, 2007)
*''History of Al-Tabari. Volume 13, the conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Persia, and Egypt'' translated by G.H.A. Juynboll. (SUNY Press, 1987)
References
External links
Studies as a Legacy: Remembering Gautier Juynboll
Dutch scholars of Islam
1935 births
2010 deaths
Leiden University alumni
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