Stefanie Brinkmann: "Hadith Scholarship in Mongol Baghdad: al-Qazwīnī’s transmission of al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna”

Stefanie Brinkmann has published an article entitled “Hadith Scholarship in Mongol Baghdad: al-Qazwīnī’s transmission of al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna”, in: Löhr, Nadine and Bruno De Nicola (eds.): The Mongols’ Baghdad - Knowledge Transmission Through Manuscript Cultures Before and After the Conquest, special issue of Medieval Worlds: Comparative & Interdisciplinary Studies, no. 22 (2025), pp. 68-102.

This article reconstructs al-Qazwīnī’s transmission of al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna in Mongol Baghdad by analysing his Mashyakha and reading sessions (qirā’a) in two manuscripts from the Mongol period.

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