G.H.A. Juynboll (Gualtherüs (Gautier) Hendrik Albert Juynboll) (1935-2010) was a scholar of
Islam specializing in ''
Hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...
'', (the collection of sayings attributed to the Prophet of Islam
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mo ...
),
about which he published more than twenty articles.
His contributions to hadith studies have been called "substantial and groundbreaking" (by
Jonathan A. C. Brown
Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown is an American Muslim scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has served as an associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of ...
),
and he has been called "talented and tireless" (A. Kevin Reinhart);
he was in 2020 the honorand of a ''
Festschrift
In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...
''.
Juynboll was born in
Leiden
Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...
, Netherlands in 1935 and was from a "prominent" family of
Orientalists.
He studied Arabic and Islam at
Leiden University and obtained his doctoral degree in 1969. He worked at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
(UCLA) in the US, and the
University of Exeter
, mottoeng = "We Follow the Light"
, established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter)
, type = Public
, ...
in the UK, but became "financially independent" in 1985.
He is noted for the contention that ''
isnad
Hadith studies ( ar, علم الحديث ''ʻilm al-ḥadīth'' "science of hadith", also science of hadith, or science of hadith criticism or hadith criticism)
consists of several religious scholarly disciplines used by Muslim scholars in th ...
''s (the chains of oral transmission of hadith) "tell us important things about the story to which the isnäd is attached".
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
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