Pavel Pavlovitch Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875) issn 0929-2403 brill.com/ihc BRILL BRILL ISLAMIC HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION. STUDIES AND TEXTS ihc 196 *hIJ0A4|VSURZu isbn 978-90-04-52419-4 Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts covers the world of Islam, from its earliest appearance until pre-mod- ern times, and from its Western to its Eastern boundaries. The series provides space for diachronic studies of a dynasty or region, research into individual themes or issues, annotated translations and text editions, and conference proceedings related to Islamic history. Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875) The Sceptical Traditionalist Pavel Pavlovitch In Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875). The Skeptical Traditionalist, Pavel Pavlovitch studies the life and works of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī, the author of the famous collection of traditions (ḥadīth) al-Musnad al-ṣaḥīḥ (The Sound Collection), which Sunni Muslims rank as the third most authoritative source of legal and theological norms after the Qurʾān and Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ. Based on multiple biographical sources and Muslim’s extant works, Pavel Pavlovitch studies hitherto unexplored aspects of Muslim’s biography, elaborates on his founding contribution to the science of ḥadīth criticism and examines the transmission history of Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ in unprece- dented detail. The monograph includes the first systematic study of Muslim’s traditionalist theolo- gy, which played a defining role in the formation of Sunni identity. Pavel Pavlovitch, Ph.D. (1998), DSc (2015) is Professor of Arabo-Islamic Civilization at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. He has published the monograph The Formation of the Islamic Understanding of Kalala (Brill, 2016) and contributes to the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three.