The main focus of my current research is the epistemology of hadith criticism in the early period of Islam among major legal and theological Muslim schools. My PhD thesis focused on discovering the history and methodology of hadith criticism.
Issam Eido عصام عيدو
Issam Eido is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. He is a former Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic from the University of Chicago Divinity School (2013-2015), and a former fellow of the “Europe in the Middle East/Middle East in Europe” (EUME) Research program affiliated with Corpus Coranicum at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. Eido's research focuses on the Qur'an in late antiquity, Hadīth Studies, Sufism and Islamic ethics. Prior to the Syrian Uprising, Eido served as a lecturer in the faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Damascus. His doctoral work, “Early Hadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Hadīth Criticism,” presented a new understanding of the criteria used by Muslim scholars in accepting or rejecting traditions attributed to Muhammad and the transformations of that criteria from the classical to the modern period. Eido has published two books into Arabic, and several book chapters and journal papers. Among them are: “The Rise of Syrian Salafism: From Denial to Recognition,”; “Ḥanafī’s Criteria of Ḥadīth Criticism: the Role of Islamic Legal Maxims,”; and one upcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Hadith, “Towards the Systematization of the Science of Authentication and Hadith Classification: Authors and Their Works.” Since moving to the West, Eido has presented his works in many academic places, among them St. Andrews University, University of Chicago, UCLA, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), International Quranic studies Association (IQSA), American Oriental Institute (AOS), Cambridge Muslim College, and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
