Historical Stylistics of Ethnic Hadiths; An Approach of Arab Ethnocentrism

Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Ahmad Fallahzadeh

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Islam, Faculty of History, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran, and Level Three Graduate, Seminary of Qom

10.22067/jquran.2024.86010.1645

Abstract

A few decades after the conquests, Arab Muslims became an overwhelming power worldwide. This issue led to the formation of Arabic identity as the superior identity compared to other nations and ethnic groups, and especially in the Umayyad era, it mixed with an ethnocentric view and gradually resulted in the confrontation of non-Arab Islamic societies with the Arabic religious ethnocentrism model.  By legitimizing tools, the conqueror group tried to give a sacred look to Arab descent. In this process, the Islamic hadiths played a prominent role. Using the sanctity resulting from the Arabic language of the Quran, the performance circle of Arabic literature could also defend Arabic identity and fight against other racial identities. By describing and analyzing library data, the present study deals with the stylistics of hadiths and instrumental use of literature to achieve the process of ethnocentrism. According to the results, during a multi-stage process using legitimizing tools and creating new sacred concepts, Arab ethnocentrism has used the hadith sanctity procedure in different forms to establish the superiority of its ethnic group among the Muslim community. In this regard, literary and linguistic tools such as proverbs, etc. were also used.

Keywords

• Sacred ethnocentrism
• Ethnic narratives
• Ethnic hadiths
• Stylistics of hadith fabrication
• Virtues of cities
• Ethnic literature

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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