The Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law : The Search for a Sound Hadith : Palgrave Macmillan : 9781137376459 : 1137376457 : 12 Oct 2015 : "The concept of Sunna, as one of the two normative fountainheads of the Islamic tradition, has fundamental importance in understanding nearly all of the branches of Islamic knowledge including Islamic law and politics. This book equips us with a comprehensive overview of the nature and the scope of the concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions on the topic. In this context the discussion often focuses on the conceptual, epistemological and hermeneutical relationship between the concepts of Sunna and that of concept of a sound (sahih) hadith as understood in various Sunni madhahib as well as in early Islamic history and theology"--